The Ugliest Affiliate Links Can Lose You Money

Does this look familiar to you?: http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi? id=kinger0813

Yes, you guessed it, it's an affiliate link that you're supposed to send visitors to with your promotions and marketing efforts.  Ugly aren't they? 

This is where some kind of cover needs to be used in order to make your link both memorable and easier for potential customers to type in.

This is just one task that 'Powerlink Generator'  can cope with and it also keeps all your affiliate links in one, controllable place.

It's been proven that links like the one above can kill your profits.  However, make it shorter and understandable and click through's can rocket.  Putting the link into your newsletter emails etc. can be very off putting and even allow people to cut out your ID and put theirs in instead so, you lose your commissions and they gain them … great!

Powerlink Generator is a script that you install onto your website server (I do like this idea) and can be run by typing in your website URL, a slash and then the name of the folder where you have installed the software.

Once you've signed in you can list every affiliate link you have, enter the statistics URL along with username and password which gives you instant access to all your sales and click-through information.

Although Powerlink Generator has been around for a year or two, it has just been updated with more useful features.  There is a squeeze page bypass feature which can be used to bypass any page, in fact, and a new URL cloaking (masking) feature where you no longer need to worry about your affiliate cookie not dropping onto the users hard drive.

There is also an 'Exit Pop Up' feature where you can advertise a second product with one click.

Another new feature is the 'Instant Cash, Viral Promotion' feature where you can optionally add a viral strip to the top or bottom of the destination page which contains your Powerlink Generator affiliate link.  

This feature is also handy if you're just sending members to a page that isn't selling anything … your affiliate promo can then be set to show when they get there.

My favourite new add-in, though, is the Bypass feature.  This is useful for a number of reasons.

The main reason, for me, is if the affiliate vendor has a squeeze page that would 'steal' your customers details where all you get would be the commission but lose out on having the customer for life.  However, using the Powerlink Generator By-Pass feature, you can set YOUR affiliate link to, firstly, be cloaked and then head straight for the order page OR straight to YOUR OWN squeeze page and then onto the order page.

Another reason may be if the sales page sucks and you think you can do much better, direct the to your own sales page, bypassing the affiliate vendors and then onto their order page.  You get better chance of the sale because your sales letter converts better, while you still keep commissions owed to you.

I must admit, I haven't see 900% increase in sales yet but it definitely makes an improvement to your stats.  You'll no doubt notice that, out of all the affiliate links you have displayed, you don't seem to earn any commissions. 

Well, install Powerlink Generator and that'll all be a thing of the past as you can now keep an eye on every single statistic from your main panel and ensure you are paid when you should be.

The most difficult thing about the software is the installation but you are given step by step instruction along with a video.  Following it to the letter, you should have no problems.

Recommended by me and, once you've entered all the data to begin with (all your existing affiliate links) it's an absolute breeze to use.

http://powerlinkgenerator.com/