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Posted By admin on June 14, 2009
OVERVIEW
Affiliate Diamond provides a quick and easy fix for one of the biggest problems facing affiliate marketers.
You may not be aware of this problem, but if you promote any affiliate program, it is almost certainly costing you a substantial proportion of your commissions.
The problem arises when instead of simply clicking on your affiliate link, a customer copies the link into the Address field at the top of their browser and modifies the link before using it.
This modification comes in two forms – chopped links and stolen commissions
To illustrate this, take a look at this typical affiliate link:
http://www.salessite.com/affiliates.php?r=1234
This link is for a web site “www.salessite.com” and an affiliate ID of 1234.
The Chopped Link
For no good reason, other than simply to stop you getting commission, a surprisingly large number of people will chop off the affiliate part of this link before using it, leaving just http://www.salessite.com.
The Stolen Commission
Some people will sign up to the affiliate program themselves, then change the 1234 to their own affiliate ID before buying the product. The result is that YOUR commission gets paid into THEIR account. This is common for products sold with high levels of commission, such as most ebooks and software.
In both these cases, you lose a commission that should rightfully be yours.
Using your copy of Affiliate Diamond, you can avoid this problem, automatically with just a few button clicks, substantially boosting your affiliate commission checks.
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HOW TO USE AFFILIATE DIAMOND
1. Enter your web site name into the Your web site box. (You only need to enter this once as it is stored). If you plan to keep your redirect pages in a folder on your site, include the folder name.
Example: www.mysite.com
Or if your redirect pages will be in the “links” folder: www.mysite.com/links
2. Enter the affiliate link in the Affiliate link box.
You can use the Paste button to paste from the Windows clipboard into this box.
3. Choose the Type of page using the drop-down selection.
There are 4 different types of redirect page used on the Internet. Affiliate Diamond can build all 4 types. If your web host supports PHP (most web hosts support this), then you are recommended to use a php redirect page. Otherwise, you are recommended to use a standard redirect page. For a description of all 4 types of page, see the “Types Of Redirect Page” section below.
4. Click the Create button then select where to save the new redirect page on your PC.
The complete new redirect page will be created and saved onto your PC.
The new link will be put onto the Windows clipboard automatically. Now you can use your usual editor to update all the emails or web pages where you were using the affiliate link. Simply paste from the Windows clipboard, replacing the affiliate link with the new link.
5. Affiliate Diamond will then ask if you want to create additional redirect pages.
If so, follow steps 2, 3, 4 again as required.
6. When you have finished, you will be given the option to have the redirect pages automatically uploaded onto your web site. The first time you do this, you need to enter the FTP details for your site (the same details you would enter into any FTP program). The details are stored, so for future use, you can have the new pages uploaded automatically with a single button click.
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This section provides details of the 4 different types of redirect pages that can be created by this software. You can skip this section if you wish.
TYPES OF REDIRECT PAGE
1. A PHP redirect page uses PHP script to perform the redirection. This is the simplest and fastest form of redirect page available. It requires support for PHP on your web site so may not work for some web hosts. You can try a PHP redirect page to see if it works. If it does not work, use a standard redirect page instead.
2. A standard redirect page uses the refresh meta-tag to perform the redirection. This is the most commonly used method on the Internet. It’s slower than PHP redirect pages and not quite as secure, but is the best method if your web host does not support PHP.
3. A Javascript redirect page uses Javascript to perform the redirection. This has the drawback that it requires the users browser to support Javascript (some people do not have this enabled). Javascript redirect pages do include code to handle cases where the users browser does not support Javascript, but this requires the user to click on a second link, which is a little cumbersome. It is usually preferable to use php or standard redirect pages. Javascript redirect pages do however allow you to manually modify them if you want, to include things like creating popups before redirecting. (You have to add code for this yourself manually. Affiliate Diamond does not do this for you).
4. A link cloaking page uses a frameset to hide the affiliate link. This is the method used by most other software tools which protect affiliate commissions. Unfortunately, while this method was very effective in the past, it can now actually lose you commissions. This is due to new features added to Internet Explorer version 6. Unless you have a very good reason to use this type of page, it is recommended that you never use it.
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