Comments on: Always Control Your Destination URL http://www.adhustler.com/always-control-your-destination-url/ Confessions Of A Serial Internet Entrepreneur Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:23:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Control your Destination URL | RileyPool.com http://www.adhustler.com/always-control-your-destination-url/comment-page-1/#comment-9202 Control your Destination URL | RileyPool.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:55:30 +0000 http://www.adhustler.com/?p=510#comment-9202 [...] steal some of your thunder AdHustler, but this cannot be talked about enough.  You absolutely must control your destination URL.  Since I do most of my advetising on social media I’ve figured out a way to always control [...] [...] steal some of your thunder AdHustler, but this cannot be talked about enough.  You absolutely must control your destination URL.  Since I do most of my advetising on social media I’ve figured out a way to always control [...]

]]> By: Facebook checking up on me? | RileyPool.com http://www.adhustler.com/always-control-your-destination-url/comment-page-1/#comment-1521 Facebook checking up on me? | RileyPool.com Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:17:45 +0000 http://www.adhustler.com/?p=510#comment-1521 [...] all you affiliates pushing any kind of offer you should always control your destination url.  In addition to that I also have to cloak my offers when I run foreign traffic and I run all my [...] [...] all you affiliates pushing any kind of offer you should always control your destination url.  In addition to that I also have to cloak my offers when I run foreign traffic and I run all my [...]

]]> By: Thiago Prado http://www.adhustler.com/always-control-your-destination-url/comment-page-1/#comment-1405 Thiago Prado Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:49:32 +0000 http://www.adhustler.com/?p=510#comment-1405 since I started to promoting products online I use this technique. I don't know where I learned but it's very good and flexible. It's so much easier to change when you have the control over the file. Plus when I need to use it for another thing I just point to the same place and that's it. since I started to promoting products online I use this technique. I don’t know where I learned but it’s very good and flexible.
It’s so much easier to change when you have the control over the file. Plus when I need to use it for another thing I just point to the same place and that’s it.

]]> By: Matt L http://www.adhustler.com/always-control-your-destination-url/comment-page-1/#comment-1401 Matt L Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:08:29 +0000 http://www.adhustler.com/?p=510#comment-1401 That's a big "yep" on Clint. Plus, depending on what domain you use, you can sometimes buy a little time on a direct linking campaign - get a domain close to the main merchant on the destination url, use the merchant's display and when an affiliate checks the source they won't see the usual affiliate redirects and know there is a possibly easy opportunity. Many will just pass it by. Not that direct linking is the way to go for a defensible business model, but it can pay for the little odds & ends like daycare & diapers. That’s a big “yep” on Clint.

Plus, depending on what domain you use, you can sometimes buy a little time on a direct linking campaign – get a domain close to the main merchant on the destination url, use the merchant’s display and when an affiliate checks the source they won’t see the usual affiliate redirects and know there is a possibly easy opportunity. Many will just pass it by.

Not that direct linking is the way to go for a defensible business model, but it can pay for the little odds & ends like daycare & diapers.

]]> By: Clint Lenard http://www.adhustler.com/always-control-your-destination-url/comment-page-1/#comment-1400 Clint Lenard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:58:34 +0000 http://www.adhustler.com/?p=510#comment-1400 Great point. I actually posted something similar to this regarding MySpace a while back. You could (probably still can) use a URL such as: http://yoursite.com/offer/ Then, of course, that gets taken to any index file that you want there. This gives you the control to even give them a completely bullshit "clean" landing page (no pop-up's, etc), and whatever else they like... THEN, once they approve the page -- you can quickly change that file easily, and control any redirects (index.php can redirect to the merchant, if you want). It's amazing how often people overlook simple redirects like this... :) Great point. I actually posted something similar to this regarding MySpace a while back. You could (probably still can) use a URL such as:

http://yoursite.com/offer/

Then, of course, that gets taken to any index file that you want there. This gives you the control to even give them a completely bullshit “clean” landing page (no pop-up’s, etc), and whatever else they like…

THEN, once they approve the page — you can quickly change that file easily, and control any redirects (index.php can redirect to the merchant, if you want).

It’s amazing how often people overlook simple redirects like this… :)

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