Direct and indirect linking, which one is better?

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Updated 2 years ago

If you look at what super affiliates do, which are the ones that make the most commissions, typically anywhere between the 1 to top 10% depending on whose rule you read about what does super affiliate mean.

And then we're going to talk about the difference between direct linking and indirect linking and why it matters to you. And if you're struggling to find success with affiliate marketing.

So let's talk about how you promote affiliate products and how you use those affiliate links. How do you send buyers to those affiliate links to get to your affiliate offer to eventually buy that affiliate offer so that you can make an affiliate commission? So the beginner strategy and the simpler strategy is what we call direct linking.

Now direct linking just means essentially putting your affiliate link on a traffic source and then when someone clicks on that affiliate link it goes to the offer. So direct linking simply means when an affiliate shares the direct affiliate link for the offer. So when a person orders from here through my link, I will get credit as an affiliate.

The advantages of direct linking are this: It's simple to set up so as you can see you just get an affiliate link, you put it somewhere for people to click on it and they go directly to the affiliate offer, and then when they buy you get an affiliate commission.

It doesn't require a website or a landing page, so there's no technology you need.

But not every platform allows direct linking. Many do not allow direct affiliate links and they will shut down your account.

Facebook does not directly say they don't take or accept affiliate links but you hear of affiliates getting their ads and their offers and their pages shut down all the time because they directly link to an affiliate offer.

A lot of time what happens is Facebook does see it as sort of a spammy offer when you're just sending them somewhere that almost doesn't make sense, especially if it's the make money online.

Now, indirect linking is when you actually take your viewers, your visitors, to other pages before you actually send them to an affiliate offer.

This is an example of what indirect linking looks like. So you have the traffic source. Then you actually send that traffic to a squeeze page which is a very simple just opt-in page. The sole purpose is to collect an email address.

Once the person puts in their email address then they go to the affiliate offer. So your affiliate link is actually linked into this button. Once they submit, there's a redirect to actually go to your affiliate offer.

And what that allows you to do is to actually capture their email address, send them to the offer and as soon as they don't buy the offer you can actually follow up with them with a very targeted email series with additional chances to buy that offer.

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So they say it takes 7 times for a person to get to know you enough to actually buy from you. And the emails are a way to build up that trust and increase your chances for an affiliate commission. I hope this added more value to your wealth of knowledge and strategies.

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