Jonathan Leger is always coming up with some cool tool or device to use for affiliate marketers!
The most recent one is his affiliate cloaking and link shortening service OffTo.net!
OffTo.net has unique benefits for affiliate marketers.
1) It shortens and cloaks your links. Duh! Of course! This is especially good on Twitter.
2) It lets you add a custom keyword link instead of a jibberish code. Very good for marketing.
3) Jonathan’s service doesn’t penalize affiliate marketers like many other shortening services do.
4) Search Engine Optimization – Here’s what Jonathan says and the search optimization you get right now with OffTo.net:
You see, ol’ OffTo has racked up a HUGE number of links to its pages (76,259 according to Yahoo! Site Explorer). That massive number of in-bound links has given OffTo a lot of authority in Google’s eyes, and so its pages are ranking very well for the
keywords the engines are finding on those pages.It’s the same kind of effect that causes the pages of Wikipedia to rank for so many different keywords. Tons of links means the pages will rank for just about anything.
How does this benefit you?
In case it’s not clear yet, this benefits YOU because when you cloak your links using OffTo, your cloaked links will often end up ranking for the keywords on the cloaked page (especially if you choose a link name that has your keywords in it). That means EXTRA traffic from the search engines, for free!
In order to benefit from this extra traffic, you want to be sure the “Hide links to affiliate program on landing page” box is checked when you create the cloaked link, since that’s what causes the page to get cached and ranked in the engines.
So the next time you need to use a link cloaker, I strongly recommend you do yourself a favor and get some f.ree traffic by using OffTo.net!
5. This is the best – FREE TRAFFIC TO YOUR AFFILIATE LINKS!
How’s that? When you set up a free link account there you can become a promotion partner. For everyone you send to OffTo.net, you get traffic credit for the affiliate links in your account.
Send 1000 visitors, get a 1000 visitors to your sites. Your links rotate until you get the promised traffic!
6. By By affiliate links. One of the big problems with certain affiliate products is that the first thing you see on their landing page is a link that lets your customer sign up as an affiliate and essentially cut you out of the loop. Offto.net blocks those links on the landing page. Wow!
7. You can also TRACK your link traffic to evaluate the impact of your advertising.
It’s sort of a no-brainer if you’re using link shortering urls. I used to use tinyurl.com
But I like this much better. What’d TinyURL really ever do for an affiliate?
Good idea Jonathan!
Don on May 5th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Nice informative post. The reason I use these things. One cannot know to much huh?
Thanks.