How To… Embed an affiliate link in a page
First, cookie stuffing is certainly unethical, probably illegal, and marketers have been sued for doing it. We added the ability to embed a single affiliate link on a page for the sole purpose of replacing a sales letter for an affiliate product with your own, within the terms and conditions of the affiliate product you are promoting.
From a discussion with one of our clients, in their words:
“It’s one thing to try and get credit for a product that you had no intention of promoting, like you talk about product A, and then in the background you cookie for product B. That’s unethical. Generally, a cookie stuffer tries to cookie as many cookies as it can in one session, and it does it in a way that nobody can detect what is going on, if they ever decided to look into it.
However, if you are talking about product A and your cookie gets set for product A, I think that should be okay. A lot of time, product landing pages (sales pages) can be horrible, and it is the best interest in the product owner that the cookies get stuffed on your better sales page and you bypass their sales page and go straight to the product’s order page, so you can sell better for them.”
To insert an affiliate link onto your replacement sales page:
- Create a GoTryTHIS link to the affiliate link and save the link.
- Select the link by clicking on the row of the link in the link list, which bring it up for editing.
- Go to the “Code” tab and copy the code in the first box, labeled, “Paste into web page to load this link in the background”.
- Paste that code into your sales page, preferably between the <head> and </head> tags.
- Then, your sales page can link directly to the order page for the product.
Notes:
Not all browsers will let the embedded cookie through and there is nothing that can be done about that, so you will not get all the sales you should get. This is one of those things where you need to decide if it is worth it or not for you, in your particular instance.Also, test your page after adding the affiliate link, especially if there is audio that plays on the page. It might play in the background of your page too.
With the split-testing ability of GoTryTHIS, you can also rotate traffic between your sales letter and the affiliate sales letter, each using a separate affiliate link, in order to determine which sales letter converts better.
Yes, Ian Del Carmen certainly should have tested his “page after adding the affiliate link, especially if there is audio that plays on the page. It might play in the background of your page too.”
You are absolutely correct…I saw the trap when the cleverly worded email tried to “trick” me into clicking a link for to upgrade my Newsletter subscription for FREE . Just one little detail – the Newsletter doesn’t exist. Red flag! Red flag!
Sure enough that click automatically subscribes you to another list promoting Product A even though you’re just supposed to believe you will be sent this great new upgraded newsletter…WRONG. LIARS, all of them!
Next comes the voices…where are they coming from? I must have some page open by mistake but no, that’s not it. It’s the owner of Product B talking all about the up-and-coming launch in January 2010 – I think it was Commission Blueprint. Upon further investigation, it was indeed a tiny little object playing from the part of the screen way down from where the sun don’t shine.
Of course, I fixed the code so it would play on the page and saved all the evidence for educational purposes. Ian Del Carmen looks exactly like what he is. I knew that years ago. Proof is just a formality. I never did finish this – http://www.SpyDudes.net – Maybe one day I will get around to uploading more interesting discoveries. . . . .then I can lock them all up in the http://www.Scamzoo.com ZooKeeper Jop Open. Apply within!
You will probably delete my comments but that’s okay – at least YOU know!!
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