Update: The sale for Affiliate Link Pal is now LIVE at $27.00.
We’ve now updated the plugin and zip, so if you go back to your personal download page you’ll find there’s a new version in there.
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This Friday I’ll be releasing an exciting new plugin called Affiliate Link Pal.
I hope you’ll agree that there’s a little spark of genius in this one. Ahem.
If you use a third party affiliate scheme like ClickBank or Infusionsoft or e-Junkie or whatever, then the problem is they don’t let your affiliates create links that point back to YOUR site. So your affiliates are always boosting the rank of those third party sites instead of your own.
Or maybe you use a self-hosted sales centralisation script that includes an affiliate scheme.
It might work great with your main site as it gets all the backlinks from affiliates, but it’s not so good with your satellite sites as they don’t get any links at all.
And it probably even creates long and complicated “unfriendly” links too.
It’s an annoyance we’ve probably all had to live with at one point or another, and if not, then it’s just waiting to happen.
Until now.
Using Affiliate Link Pal will enable your affiliates to create a “friendly” URL that points back to your individual site regardless of the actual affiliate link. When a prospect clicks the friendly link, the plugin redirects the prospect off to the real affiliate link.
So it goes like this:-
Friendly Link >> Unfriendly Affiliate Link >> Final Landing Page
Now you might be wondering at this point why the affiliate should bother to take this extra step, and not just use the original unfriendly affiliate link instead.
There’s two good reasons.
The first is, what do you think looks better for the affiliate of these two links? (Don’t bother clicking them, they don’t go anywhere.)
http://domainA.dom/aff/hop.php?aff=fred&item=65
http://domainB.dom/secret-free-trial/
Now I *hope* you’ve said the second one, because that’s the kind of link your affiliates will be able to create. 😉
I’m sure you can see how your affiliates will be excited to be able to create interesting links with a little bit of imagination.
The second reason your affiliates will be eager to create these friendly links is sales page customisation.
We’ve included the ability for you to create customised short code tags such as their name, which then allows you to mention them in your sales copy, giving it the more personal touch.
You must have seen custom created pages that say things like “Fred Bloggs and John Smith introduce…”, well the John Smith bit could be your affiliate’s name.
So the combination of “interesting” URLs plus page customisation is a double whammy to get your affiliates to take a few moments to create an SEO friendly link for you.
Their benefit is better, more clickable links, and yours is more links pointing directly back to your individual site. It’s a win-win for both of you.
As far as I can see, this plugin will work with ANY affiliate scheme. Affiliate Link Pal is NOT an affiliate scheme plugin itself, it’s meant to complement any existing affiliate scheme you may be using.
This coming Friday (4th March) at 6.00pm GMT (1.00pm EST), the Affiliate Link Pal plugin will go on sale at a starting price of $10.00 for the first 50 sales.
-Frank Haywood
