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You’ve seen in your affiliate back-office the main link in the top right corner that you can use to send anyone to the main page of the site and you get credited with the referral. How would you like to send people to any page on the site and still get the credit? This how-to will show you how.

First, navigate to the page you want to send people to and copy the URL, we’ll use the radio-ad #1 in this example:

Then login to your affiliate back-office and click “Build & Track Your Own Links”:

That brings you to this form:

Paste the URL into the field labeled “Define Your Own“, give the URL a name that will mean something to you in the “Tracking Keyword” field, (I put “radio”), and click “Create New Link“.

The new link will appear with some statistics (more on that in a second):

You can now copy and paste that link in an email, or use it as the URL in an ad you create. Whenever people go to that link they are “marked” as an account for you. If they sign up you’ll get the monthly commission! The cool thing is they are sent to the page you browsed to, so you can now send anyone to any page on the site by creating a special URL for that page.

Now, a little on those other fields there:

• Unique Hits - number of different people who have clicked on that URL. If you send it to 50 people in an email this will tell you the number of people who clicked on it from that email.
• Sales - the number of people who came in through that link and then purchased the service. This could even be that they come to the site on this link this month and sign up next month, so don’t get discouraged if they don’t immediately purchase!
• Conversion Rate - the number of people that purchase compared to the number that came to the site on that URL. The higher this number is, the more successful that page is at converting people into paying customers.

Now to email it out, remember, don’t make a real long-winded email. You’re not trying to sell them the whole ball of wax in one email, just a short email with the link to get them interested. It may take several emails before they decide to purchase. If you spread them out about once a week or so you’ll be doing good.

Here’s an example email of the radio link:

Hello everyone.

Just dropping you a quick note. You’ve probably already heard about this radio ad, but just in case you’ve missed it I wanted to make sure you get it. You can listen to the ad on this page:

<put the radio link you create here>

And of course for more information, go here:

<put your main link that’s in the top-right of your affiliate back-office here>

Tags: affiliate

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