subject: Domain Forwarding - Strategies to Hide Your Affiliate Link and Increase Your Conversion Rate [print this page] Domain Forwarding - Strategies to Hide Your Affiliate Link and Increase Your Conversion Rate
Are you new in affiliate marketing business and want to find new ways to hide your affiliate links? All affiliates get lots of troubles when they start an affiliate marketing business.
There are so many ways to hide your affiliate link and domain forwarding and masking is one of the best ways to hide an affiliate link.
Now, you may be thinking how domain name forwarding and masking work. It's quite simple, just buy your own domain name from any web hosting company like godaddy.com and dress up your ugly affiliate link with this.
Normally, an affiliate link is too long and it doesn't seem like a professional URL. And also, people try to avoid buying a product through an affiliate link. So, it is important for an affiliate to hide his affiliate links brilliantly. Domain name forwarding and masking provide you a way to hide your affiliate links.
So how do you do that? You need your own domain name as I have mentioned above. At the time of this writing, the price of domain name is anywhere from $1.99 to $10 or sometime more. I suggest you to go to Godaddy.com and buy an .info domain name. At this time the price of .info domain name is just $1.99 for a year. Be creative while choosing a domain name, your domain name must be short and descriptive.
Once you purchase a domain name, log in to that site and see your account. Find out domain forwarding' or forwarding' button and click on that. You will find details about how to forward a domain. It's not a critical work. You just need to copy Clickbank hop link or your affiliate link and paste it on forward to' box. Also, enable the URL making tab so that your referred visitors will not able to see the URL of merchant site. They will be able to see only your domain name.
So, by domain name forwarding and masking you can hide your affiliate link, and also you will increase your affiliate conversion rate. It is an easiest method to hiding an affiliate link.
Other benefits of domain forwarding are:
You can use your domain name as your signature in most forums (normally, an affiliate link is not allowed as signature in most forums).
You can use your domain name on Yahoo Answers. Bear in mind that Yahoo Answers don't allow affiliate links on it.
If your affiliate program shut down, you can promote other products on that niche without any hassle.
So, you have known that domain forwarding is the best way to hide an affiliate link. And you know that you can increase your conversion rate by hiding your domain name. You should take advantage of it.
