Erik here, and this week I have been showing you the ins and outs of Affiliate Marketing.

There are three basic steps to becoming a successful Affiliate Marketer:

1. Find great stuff to promote.
2. Set up the technical stuff.
3. Drive traffic to your affiliate links.

This is the second post in the series: how to setup the technical stuff.

So you have an affiliate link to something that you want to promote…

The only problem is that it’s long and ugly and it looks like an affiliate link. So you want to hide it, redirect it, mask it in some way so people don’t get spooked off from clicking on it.

Easy!

There are several ways to do what you are trying to do. The easiest (and most professional looking in my opinion) is:

1. Purchase a Domain Name at GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com) for about $12 bucks per year.

2. Inside GoDaddy, after you make your purchase, roll your mouse over the word “Domains” in the main navigation, then click “My Domains”

3. Select the Domain Name in question and then click “Forward” in the navigation.

4. Either option works here, paste in your affiliate link and save your changes

5. GoDaddy will forward all traffic to that Domain Name right to your affiliate link… And mask it too!

Your assignment? Take the product you have decided to promote…

Get a Domain Name, mask your affiliate link from yesterday, and post it as a comment so I can get a peek at it…

(Here is an example: I am an affiliate for BlockBuster, so I took my long, ugly BlockBuster affiliate link and turned it into www.makeitamovienight.com)

Anyways, the next step is to drive traffic to your affiliate links, which we will deal with tomorrow!

I hope this has been informative…

See yah tomorrow for Affiliate Marketing 103!

To your success,

Erik

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