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:

http://tiny.cc/cWy51

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

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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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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

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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

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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

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