Advantages of Short URLs and Redirects
Posted on September 28, 2009
Filed Under Affiliate Marketing Resources, KlikDeal Features, News, Twitter | 1 Comment
Hello Friends!
What really is a short URL? Short URL’s can be created by use of Short URL services that are often used in microblogging such as Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk and more.
So how does a link-shortening service work?
Well, basically a short URL service, shortens a longline of web address, for example:
http://www.softwarecasa.com/antivirus-software.html
A link-shortening service will completely change it and make it shorter and it could instead look like this:
The new and shortened URL is alot better to use on Twitter or anywhere else than the very long one.
But just like all things in this world, there are some advantages and disadvantages associated with link-shortening services.
ADVANTAGES OF USING SHORT URL’s:
1. Easy to distribute as they don’t get broken into pieces in mail messages
2. For affiliate marketer, easy to distribute without having their affiliate id revealed.
DISADVANTAGES OF USING SHORT URLs:
1. Does not look clean
2. Not Easy to type and Remember
3. Unable to identify the website content by simply looking at the URL. Normally, you can just tell what is inside the link by simply looking at the URL. For example:
http://www.softwaremarketingsecrets.com/
With short URL, there’s no way you can tell whether the site you are being redirected to is safe and doesn’t contain adult content or viruses.
4. Slow down in loading the redirect location
5. Failure to give credit to the website you’re linking to.
6. Failure to retrieve the real location. In cases of bad links, and you need to update the link to display the correct redirect link.
7. Most of the short URLs services provides shortened URL in an almost jibberish way.
8. Some short URL services are not trackable.
If you really insist on using short URLs without losing track of it, there are services that also offer redirect tracking along with the link-shortening capability such as KlikDeal.com and Bit.ly, both of which have URL shortener and redirect tracking functions.
I’m not convincing you to trash your URL shortener ONLY service, it’s still nice to have a clean and stylish url posted on sites that only allows you a limited number of characters to type in. But it would still be much better if you do it the right and productive way.
Until Next Time 
Peter – Your Affiliate Marketer Guide
Klikdeal Free Tool to Track Your Sales
Posted on September 24, 2009
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Hello There!
Are you an Affiliate Marketer? Have you found the right tool to use in monitoring the number of sales you make on each site at any given time?
For those who are not sure what Affiliate Marketing is, well, I’ll give you brief a introduction about it.
Affiliate Marketing is an online-based marketing strategy where a business pays its affiliates for each visitor or customer brought in via the affiliate’s website or methods. For example, as an Affiliate of makemoney.com (for demonstration purposes only, not a real site), I will be get paid by them if I bring in visitors and customers to their site. And to make that possible, I will apply advertising methods such as posting my affiliate link to social networking sites, micro-blogging sites or to my websites (optional). So when a visitor clicks on the link from any of the sites I used to advertise, in return, if these visitors purchase, I will receive a commission based on the amount of sale, a referral fee or a pay-per-click fee.
Many Affiliate Marketers have failed while others succeed and make money. Being an Affiliate Marketer becomes frustrating along the way as you’re trying to figure out which sites are mostly visited.
As an Affiliate Marketer, I would like to help you organize and gain success in the long run. Currently, I am using a tracker that helps me monitor all my sales and the places where I advertise my affiliate links – this tracker is called Klikdeal.
I find it really useful and very easy and convenient to use, lastly, my favorite part especially in the current global situation – It’s FREE.
Klikdeal gives me very many useful tools I never thought I’d get from a free redirect tracker site. And it’s as simple as A-B-C.
Step 1 - Join as an affiliate with a business or a service provider. If you are already signed up, proceed to Step 2.
Step 2 - Sign up a KlikDeal account. If you are already signed up, proceed to Step 3.
Step 3 - Click on “New Redirect” to add your affiliate link.
a. Type in your desired redirect name.
b. On the Redirect URL, paste in your affiliate link.
c. Click “Add Redirect”
You will see your redirect/tracking URL on the “Home” section.
If you have more affiliate links from different online businesses, simply add more at the “New Redirect” section.
Step 4 - To start tracking, redirect your offers online for example, on FaceBook, and you’re done!
As simple as that, KlikDeal will do the rest of the tracking and show you which sites gains you more visitors and more. To come up with a report, KlikDeal lets you select a specified Redirect Name, date and time to generate an accurate result.
To further improve your affiliate marketing, you may analyze the results and come up with alternative sites or dates to boost the sales.
That easy!
Why not give it a try and and decide if it suits your needs you have nothing to lose as its completely FREE – Sign up Here.
Until Next Time
Peter – Your Affiliate Re-direct Guide
Tracking Traffic with Klikdeal
Posted on August 31, 2009
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Hello There!
There are a number of ways to promote a website through the world wide web; link building, social networking, directory submission, blogs etc. but the king of them all is through Article Marketing.
Back in the old days the successful promotions were delivered through word of mouth but today in the digital world at present, Articles or Content Sharing are among the best way to deliver our thoughts about something we wish to promote; Products/Services
Through the help of Content Sharing Sites, Articles are delivered to interested readers directly just by typing in the keyword or a topic. If you could know exactly how many people are reading your article would be quite fulfilling.
Some content sharing sites such as Squidoo and Hubpages allow us to see the number of page views of our article, however there are some sites that do not have this feature and some even though they have it are not reliable.
So the best way to track the number of visitors to our websites is to have an independent tool that allows us to see how many readers have been clicking the link embedded within the content we just shared.
It is very important to know the number of clicks to your website. Clicks are counted as visitors and visitors are considered to be potential buyers to your products or services. Although there maybe a number of tools or services offered online just for this feature, Klikdeal is the only one that has helped me well in tracking the number of visitors to my websites. Plus the good thing about it, is it’s 100% totally Free!
Klikdeal can be used anywhere – within a shared content, through a social network or through a micro blogging service such as twitter. It’s actually very easy to use, You just simply use the link generated by Klikdeal as a substitute to the url of your website and whenever someone clicks on that link, it automatically counts it and immediately redirects visitors to your Main site.
Why Klikdeal??
- Helps you track clicks to your website
- Helps you monitor the effectiveness of your link -building strategy
- Helps you know where to focus building more links
- If you are into Affiliate Marketing, you can be able to count the number of sales whenever someone clicks on your affiliate link.
Signup Now on Klikdeal for Free! As easy as 1,2,3 and Enjoy Tracking Traffic with just a blink of an eye!
Until Next Time ; -)
Peter – Your Affiliate Re-Direct Guide
KlikDeal’s Click Details Report
Posted on August 13, 2009
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Hello There!
If you run or own an internet business I have some interesting questions and thoughts for you today.
1. Would you like to know which website/page, blog, or blog post gets the most number of views?
2. Would you like to know how many clicks you get in a day, a week, a month and in a year?
3. Would you like to know where all your clicks come from, where the most and least clicks com from?
4. Would you like to know which website/blog need improvement/updates?
Good News! Klikdeal can give you all this information in a single report and whats even better its completely FREE. Yes you heard me right you can immediately Signup on Klikdeal and enjoy the click detail report completely free plus much more.
KlikDeal is a service that cuts long URLs short and tracks it. With the special functionality of Click Details Report, all the above questions can be answered.
How to use the Click Details Report :
It’s easy just follow the instructions below:
1. Go to “Home” tab.
2. Set the ‘To:” and “From:” period that you desire.
3. On the Report drop-down menu, choose “Click Details”.
4. Click on “Go” button.
You will then get a report of your “Click Details”. On the report, you will see the following parts:
A. Date/Time – shows exact date and time when the click occurred.
B. Redirect Name – the name of the redirects that have been clicked. Where these names have been originally set by you.
C. Referral URL – it shows the URL site where the click occurred. Where the website is referred from.
D. IP Address – it shows the exact IP address of whom the clicks are from. With this information you can track and know your frequent visitors.
E. Delete Click – button that allows you to delete a particular click detail.
Pretty easy and helpful, right?
Get your Free Klikdeal account Sign up now for FREE!
Until Next Time
Peter – Your Affiliate Redirect Guide
Pay Per Click: What is it?
Posted on July 31, 2009
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Hello There!
Have you heard of Pay-Per-Click? Do you know what it is? If this is still relatively new to you am going to shed some light.
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is an advertising strategy used in advertising products and services on the internet. A technique used mainly by search engines where advertisers pay the search engine every time a visitor clicks an ad that leads to their website.
This works like for example, a Person searches for a product/service on the search engine, on the search results page at the top and sides of the page you will see in small print “sponsored links” and advertised goods/services .
There is a big chance that a person will click on the advertisement. If the person does, Google charges the owner of the advertisement (sponsored links/ads), as a “one” click, this one click can be converted into sales. Thats where you start ripping the benefits of Pay-Per-Click and the business is on the roll!
More and more people are engaging to PPC Campaigns as they see it as a major source of traffic. Apart from its benefits it’s not that easy to ride on it. It comprises of ups and downs just like any known advertising strategy.
In PPC, there are important things that need much attention these include:
1. Formulate good niche keywords
2. Come up with credible Ads
3. Create a good and well-designed landing page
As I’ve said, PPC is not that easy but with effort, knowledge, time and money it can be worth it. The returned improvement on your business can gain you credibility and amazing profits.
As you create your Advert for Pay-Per-Click you will need to include the URL of your landing page. If you can include your keywords on your landing page URL this will greatly increase your chances of getting a Click!
This is where Klikdeal can do the trick for you. You can create a url with exactly what you want your clients to see instead of a long URL that does not add any value to your Ad. If you have not tried Klikdeal yet this is your chance and I must keep saying this its Completely Free! Yes not trial but completely free.
You have nothing to lose create your free marketing link today with Klikdeal Today!
Until Next Time
Peter – Your Affiliate Redirect Guide
Redirects: How relevant is it?
Posted on July 1, 2009
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Hi There!
Anyone heard of Redirect? If you are an affiliate or internet marketer this is something you must know if you don’t please read on and so you don’t miss the bus!
Redirect is the process of sending visitors from one location to another.
Normally it is by leaving links to your target places, such as forums, email signatures, social networking sites, etc.
However if you intend to create traffic using redirects in this manner you never know how many site visitors you receive from the redirects created in those URL’s you posted on those locations. I say, it’s a time-consuming and fruitless effort.
Redirection becomes a successful strategy only if used the proper way. What I mean by proper is using it as a tracking link for web traffic you wish to track. It is one of the popularly used strategies out there, in aiming to boost page rankings.
One easy way to do this is by signing up on redirect tracker sites, such as KlikDeal. Such sites, allow you to customize redirect URL and manage redirects and whats more its totally FREE on klikdeal.
In the same logic, redirects can serve the same purpose as pamphlets given out on streets, in return, people who get it, go to the location the pamphlet shows. Using the redirect tool in klikdeal allows you to track how many visitors have been directed to your site from the use of the redirect.
Tracked redirects are effective in making adjustments and improving a user’s website to make it attractive and appealing to visitors. The more visitors a site has equals higher chances of appearing higher in search engines. So with redirects, success is highly possible.
Don’t waste any more time and invest on a redirecting program now, it can be a software or a web application such as KlikDeal. It’s easy as 1-2-3 and what makes it even better is it’s completely FREE!
Don’t believe me? Try and REGISTER NOW see if you can prove me wrong!
Until next time happy tracking.
Peter – Your Klikdeal Guide
KlikDeal First-timer’s Review
Posted on May 7, 2009
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We have a new associate at klikdeal, Laurie. She has had no previous experience with klikdeal so I wanted to do a little experiment. What if I throw her in and ask her to use klikdeal for the first time and at the same time write about the experience.
Here is her story. Take it away Laurie.
Today, I finally had a chance to try it out myself. My first time that is, in getting my way around KlikDeal.
Honestly, at first I was still in limbo, asking myself questions like, “How am I going to use it”, “Is it easy?” and “Why should I use it?”
As any first-time user would do, I jump-started on setting myself up with an account. Then and there, the first good feeling with Klikdeal hit me. Wanna know what it is?
It’s FREE! 
Moving on…
Once done with the confirmation and login thingy, I was brought to a page which I think is very plain, neat and gives that impression of easy-to-use. However, the feeling of murkiness hasn’t totally left me yet, so before doing what KlikDeal is about, I decided to check out the Help menu to grasp knowledge of how to’s. The help menu proves to be so simple and explains things straight to the point.
With the knowledge I got from the Help menu, I headed on to making redirects. And at the Home page, I can see that every redirect I made is enlisted there together with its number of clicks and the tracking URL.
To test if it works, I copied the tracking URL and posted it as an update on my Plurk account (Social Journal). To check if the number of clicks is really being tracked, I click on the URL myself and was redirected to the redirect URL I originally set it and the number of click incremented. KlikDeal was indeed able to track it. Wow! That easy!
You see, I have a blog and with KlikDeal to track my redirects, I can now easily figure out as to how many times people checks out my blog. Not to mention that I can track it in a specified time provided by the options on the Reports area.
To sum it all up, my verdict for KlikDeal is super easy-to-use, effective especially in campaigning and marketing, and lastly, SIMPLY AMAZING!
Go set up your own KlikDeal account!
Thanks for that Laurie!
Peter – Your Affiliate Redirect Guide
Twitter Stats and New KlikDeal Functionality
Posted on April 20, 2009
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Hey guys! We have added some new functionality the last few weeks. Perhaps some of you are using Twitter so I wanted to share some of the revelations I got testing twitter using klikdeal.
About Twitter
Lately I have been measuring every link that I have posted on Twitter. After posting I checked my klikdeal account for Twitter (yes, I have a couple of different klikdeal accounts under different campaign names). I then measured minute by minute how people have browsed through my klikdeal links.
The first minute after you post on Twitter you will normally get as much as 90% of your Twitter clicks. The five first minutes you will get about 95% of the total number of clicks and the last 5% can be spread out as much as over a month. I expect this curve to spread out somewhat now when people are discovering and using Twitter as a search engine.
During more active hours the bulk of visitors come faster. I am guessing the spread of the last 5% has to do with people finding your twitts via search and so on.
I am getting about 2-3% number of viewers compared to my total number of followers. But this often varies as much as between 1-7%. I believe the variation is caused mostly by factors:
- Time of day
- Subject at hand
- Copy of the twitt
I will be looking more into the Copy of my twitts, for example testing the “mystery” approach, not telling the whole store any so on.
You can follow my twitts at: http://www.klikdeal.com/Twitter/TwittPeter
It’s important that you have a sense of what your audience on twitter is interested in so measuring the traffic is really important.
New Klikdeal Features
We have added periods in the reporting area so now you can set your statistics to get a better overview of:
- Today
- Yesterday
- Last 7 days
- This Month
- Last Month
Previously you could watch 20 redirects per page but we have now set this so you can change it to 10, 20, 50 or 100 redirects per page depending on your loading times.
Coming Features
If you have any ideas about what you would like implemented into klikdeal, send me an email at: support@klikdeal.com.
We will seriously take all suggestions into consideration because we want klikdeal to become the best service available.
Until next time
Peter – klikdeal redirect+track
Even shorter URLs
Posted on December 18, 2008
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I have a few new and exciting updates of KlikDeal to share with you.
Shorter Redirect Links
We have now updated the Redirects and cut away the file ending .php. Now your URL will consist of only your campaign and redirect.
Before:
http://klikdeal.com/Campaign/Link.php
It will now look like this:
http://klikdeal.com/Campaign/Link
Apart from shortening the actual URL with 4 digits this will also give a cleaner link and a more trustworthy look which will result in more clicks on your links.
More than one Campaign Accounts
We have listen to your comments and are now accepting more accounts under one email address. So you can freely set up as many accounts (campaigns) as you like.
If you haven’t signed up yet, get a free klikdeal affiliate tracking and redirect account here.
Please comment of any other stuff you might like us to incorporate into KlikDeal.
Malcolm
klikdeal.com
Affiliate Marketing Resources
Posted on May 14, 2008
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Affiliate Marketing can make you rich. But it takes a lot of patience and hard work. It was never an overnight success to those who succeeded at this profession.
So if you want to exceed in affiliate and JVs, you’d better read a lot. You don’t want to burn a lot of cash in the way so look for free affiliate marketing resources.
I have put together a few great affiliate marketing resources below. If you have another great resource, don’t hesitate to comment below. OK, here we go
Affiliate Seeking – A large affiliate’s program directory.That caters to Affiliate marketers.
Affiliate Scout – A large directory on online affiliate marketing programs.
18 Step Guide by Allan Gardyne – An Affiliate program tutorial. Created by Alan Gardyne. This program is absolutely free. 18 steps to become a successful affiliate
My Affiliate Tips – Another site where you could learn tips on how to be successful as an Affiliate Marketer.
Uber Affiliate – A blog about Affiliate Marketing. Tips and guide on how to become successful in this field.
Affiliate Tips – find the best affiliate programs you could use here on this website. With plenty of resources for affiliate marketers.
Affiliate Marketing Blog By Shawn Collins – Tips and guide on Affiliate Marketing. A lot of links to other blog sites.
The Wealthy Affiliate University – Learn the basics and the pros of this field, by learning like in the classroom setting. Study the money making techniques of the successful Affiliate Marketers.
Any great resources, please include it in a comment below.
Until next time
Malcolm – Klikdeal
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