subject: Affiliate Marketing Basics - How to Make a Redirect Page in 7 Steps (And When Not To) [print this page] Are you a new online marketer just learning affiliate marketing basics? Maybe you wrote an article with a great title, a long tail keyword, good information for your reader's problem, and now it's time for your resource box link. How do you send your reader to a sales page when EzineArticles.com doesn't allow an affiliate link in your resource box? Use a redirect page.
The fact that you can't just send your reader to the sales page of a product you're an affiliate for is good news, believe it or not. Why should all your time and effort build the product owner's list instead of your own?
Smart, high-earning affiliates use a squeeze page (with an opt-in form) so they build a list of customers they can contact again.
But maybe you don't have the technical skills for dealing with HTML and an autoresponder yet. If you just want your reader to land on a sales page for a ClickBank product, here's how.
7 Steps to Make a Redirect Page.
1) Buy a domain name (NameCheap is simpler than GoDaddy) similar to the name of the product you want to sell, but choose .info instead of .com. It costs less and works great.
2) Google for "redirect page" and you'll find several sources for the code you need. Choose one, copy the code, open a blank page in a web page editor (Nvu is free and works great for beginners), then paste the code into the HTML screen.
3) Now alter the code. Replace the title with your product name and replace the URL with your actual ClickBank affiliate code. Take care you don't disturb any quotation marks.
4) Save this page into a folder you create for your new domain, with your product name as the file name.
5) Upload your page to your new domain with Nvu's FTP option.
6) Test your redirect page. In your browser, type your domain name, remembering to end with .info. Go there. Did you land on the product sales page?
7) If so, you can now put that same link you just typed into your resource box. Google for "a href" to get the code that creates a link your reader can click. Replace the sample domain name with your actual domain name.
Now you have a live link that zips your reader to your sales page in an instant and fits EzineArticles.com's requirements.
When Not to Use a Redirect Page
The minute you can manage more HTML and the steps for building a squeeze page with an autoresponder, do it. Study the autoresponder's tutorials or get someone to help you through the process. You'll be glad you did because with a redirect page, you'll never see your reader again after all your hard work.
A redirect page will do for now so you can earn money until you increase your skills with HTML and an autoresponder. Now
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