Advantages of Short URLs and Redirects
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
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
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