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Find Out Why Cloaking Affiliate Links is Critical To Your Business
This video explains what link cloaking is, and why you need to use it in your affiliate marketing business. Simply put, if you’re not cloaking your links, you’re literally giving away a big chunk of your commissions!
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Why You Should Drop Affiliate Cookies
This video explains why you should consider dropping affiliate cookies in your sales content to boost your commissions and ensure that you get paid on the traffic you send to the vendor’s website. It demonstrates how you can give your visitors an affiliate cookie, even if they don’t click on your “buy now” link!
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So, wait? If you use the cookie drop, it cloaks your aff link as well as drop a cookie on the visitor? (I would think so)
Well, in a manner of speaking. The cookie drop does call your affiliate link and gives the user your cookie, so if you want to link direct to the merchant page without your affiliate ID, then you can.
Cloaking is where you provide a clean looking link that redirects to the purchase or sales page of the site. Either way works, but dropping the cookie makes sure that you get credited with the sale if they leave your page and buy later.
Excuse my ignorance, but where do I add the cookie stuffing code?
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It depends! If you’re using the Affiliate Cookie Jar, then you can use the shortcode in the editor (or hit the cookie icon in the editor toolbar) to insert whatever affiliate link you want. You can also set a “global” affiliate link in the settings menu.
If you’re using the Ultimate Link Cloaker then you’d create the cookie code and insert it usually at the bottom of your web page content.
Last but not least, you can set a custom field with an affiliate link if you’re using the Ultimate Sales Page/Cloaker Template (check the awesome manual that’s included).
Hope that was clear as mud!
Hi Pat, may I know which section should I paste the cookie’s html code in my domain? Please explain clearly. Your help is very much appreciated.
Your cookie dropping code would be inserted in any portion of the website between the <body> and the </body> tags. Hope that helps!
Hello Pat, I am as new at this as they come! I have just started a blog on reviewing my favorite items that work and would like to refer people to a few sites that give the best deals (which I have already picked out) I am using shareasale and wondering if I should copy and past the whole entire HTML code (i ask because I have seen a person only select a portion of this) and after that does it matter which redirect I choose (are they all going to contain my affiliate link so I can get commissions?). And the cookie drop…can that be added in the same code? Do I have to save all of these to a place on my computer for it to work or can I take the code directly from your page and paste into my blog and have a link that is going to direct people to the product I am reviewing? All and any information is helpful for this first timer girl!
Sites like ShareASale and Commission junction usually have tracking image as well, so you may want to use the link and tracking image together. The tracking image only tracks how many times the page was viewed, while the link is what’ll give you your clickthrough.
As far as the cookie drop, you can use the code in the same page if you like. You should be able to copy and paste it right into your blog post or page – just make sure you use the HTML tab on the editor to paste it.
Hope that helps!
Great plugin. In wordpress is there a way to drop more than one cookie? I have several sites where I’m promoting two products.
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Thanks for the great comments! Technically you could drop more than one cookie, but I purposely kept it to one per page load because the idea is to drop the cookie on that page or post. Now, you can put multiple cookie drops on a page, but only one per page view gets dropped starting with the first one on the page. If that person comes back to your site and views that page/post again, then they’ll get the next cookie, and so on. Hope that helps!
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