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How
To Hide Your Affiliate Links In PDF Files
by
Nelson Tan
In
this article
by Satyajeet Hattangadi, you would have read about some ways to
hide your affiliate links, but how do you hide them in a Word
document or PDF files? It is not possible to use services like
tinyurl.com that randomly generate encrypted links and put these
links in a portable file. The virtual ‘association’
between an encrypted link and the actual affiliate link would
have been broken, making this method ineffective.
But
there is one simple way: create a blank web page on your
website that automatically redirects with your affiliate link.
The
steps go like this:
1)
On your web server create a new directory for the product you
are promoting. For this example let’s name it ‘google’.
2)
Here is the exact html you would use to create the redirect page:
<html>
<head>
<title>Google link</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.google.com">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
If this page does not redirect in 5 seconds please click here
==> <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
</body>
</html>
3)
Save the new redirect page in this new directory and call it 'index.htm'.
That’s
it! The following link will automatically redirect you to Google's
home page: http://www.yourwebsite.com/google,
and this is the URL you can safely promote in any types of media,
be they e-books, websites, e-mails etc.
Note
that the above codes use Google as an example. All google.com
URLs are where you should place your affiliate links. Name your
title tags and link labels where appropriate.
Let’s
say you were promoting the Google Cash e-book. You would create
a directory called 'googlecash' that would look like this when
typed in http://www.yourwebsite.com/googlecash.
Your redirect page for your Google Cash affiliate link would be
saved as 'index.htm' and placed in your 'googlecash' directory.
In
a PDF file, your affiliate link cannot be revealed, and the redirect
link is fail-safe regardless of where the PDF file may be.
Just
create a page like this for each affiliate program you want to
link to. It won't take you long to set each link up once you get
going.
Nelson Tan is the webmaster behind Internet
Mastery Center. Create Your Online Profits with the RIGHT
Products, Environment and Mindset!
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