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Lesson How to hide your affiliate link with redirects
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A redirect is when you visit a particular page or website and it automatically forwards you to a different address. Chances are, as an affiliate, you're going to become very familiar with this technique. It has a number of uses:
Why create redirects?
1) It looks friendlier
Instead of putting your (rather unfriendly) affiliate link into a page, you can create another page on your site that automatically redirects to your affiliate link. Then when you want to send people through your affiliate link, you can provide them with the (much friendlier) address of your redirect page on your website. This means that you can put this address inside emails/newsletters and it will look much more attractive to your readers. For example:
http://example123.rspanish.hop.clickbank.net/
could become
http://example.com/recommends/rocketspanish/
Instead of trying to send people to your ugly affiliate link (http://example123.rspanish.hop.clickbank.net/), you can instead send them to the...
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