Ready, Set, Test

Before you begin testing, you’ve got to have two things: something to track and compare; and some high earning pages you want to funnel your site traffic to. For fast results, select a few of your highly visited pages.

Next think of ways to get visitors viewing a particular page to click on a link to one of your high earning pages. That’ll help you come up with a catchy description for link. And remember, you can use graphics to grab your visitors’ attention. Be creative!

And remember, it’s all about location, location, location. Once you’ve come up with attention-grabbing description, you’ve got to identify perfect spot on your page for positioning descriptive link to your high paying page.

Spend some time visiting other websites to see how they’re maximizing site navigation. For example, using a “Hot Pages” list or a “Most Read Articles” list are common menu selections.

Then let testing begin. Try putting different text on different pages. That way you’ll get a feel for what works and what doesn’t. Mix things up a bit – put links on top of page and bottom.

It’s now all a matter of testing and tracking, and testing and tracking until you find site navigation setup that works best!

The simplest way to hide your affiliate links is using a javascript redirect page.

This is where you hide your affiliate link in a page on your site using a simple javascript that redirects people to your affiliate link.

This way your "naked" affiliate link is not exposed in your actual email messages and ezine ads, but people get redirected to true affiliate link.

One possible drawback of this method is that some affiliate programs, like clickbank for example, expose affiliate link along with your ID in browser address bar.

So if viewer is eagle-eyed he will notice that he's been redirected through an affiliate link.

A safer method to hide your affiliate links is using a zero-frame or "invisible" frame that masks affiliate link by making it appear you are sending people to a page on your website. In reality, you are actually sending them to your affiliate link.

This technique is also used by many domain redirection service sites.

Unfortunately if user views source of page. He know whats that you've loaded an affiliate link.

The solution is to use javascript encryption to scramble up page code.

Even though there isn't a 100% perfect solution to this problem, if you want to get paid more often through your affiliate links, make sure it's not obvious you're referring people to an affiliate link.

If they can't see that its a affiliate link, lower possibility of you getting stiffed of your commission.

If you are looking for a tool that lets you do all this plus earn affiliate commissions even from those folk who dont click your affiliate link then do check out Covert Affiliate at http://www.novasoft-inc.net/covert-affiliate

Satyajeet Hattangadi is the Owner of Novasoft Inc (http://www.novasoft-inc.net), a software solutions provider, who specialize in affordable customized software solutions.