http://www.ron-barrett.com Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:41:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 2006-2007 ron-barrett@comcast.net ron-barrett@comcast.net http://www.ron-barrett.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.ron-barrett.com 144 144 Knowledge-Application-Results ron-barrett@comcast.net no no http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/applying-leverage-to-your-articles http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/applying-leverage-to-your-articles#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:10:54 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=204 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/applying-leverage-to-your-articles/feed 9 http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/five-benefits-of-using-plr-articles http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/five-benefits-of-using-plr-articles#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:17:16 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=181 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/five-benefits-of-using-plr-articles/feed 11 http://www.ron-barrett.com/uncategorized/sharp-stick-in-the-eye-not-with-these-article-writing-ideas http://www.ron-barrett.com/uncategorized/sharp-stick-in-the-eye-not-with-these-article-writing-ideas#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 22:48:02 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=168 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/uncategorized/sharp-stick-in-the-eye-not-with-these-article-writing-ideas/feed 12 http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/using-article-marketing-to-drive-laser-targeted-traffic http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/using-article-marketing-to-drive-laser-targeted-traffic#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:34:24 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=159 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/using-article-marketing-to-drive-laser-targeted-traffic/feed 13 http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/redirects-a-must-for-affiliate-marketers http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/redirects-a-must-for-affiliate-marketers#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:51:22 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=109 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/redirects-a-must-for-affiliate-marketers/feed 11 00:01:01 Cloaking your affiliate links is a good way to keep people from stealing your commissions. All a "cloak" has to be is some sort of ... Cloaking your affiliate links is a good way to keep people from stealing your commissions. All a "cloak" has to be is some sort of a redirect. One of the ways that I was 'taught' how to create a redirect a while back was to use a .php  file and upload to your server. That way when your customers clicked on the URL, their browser would redirect to the sales page that you are promoting. Don't get me wrong, I still use this method for a number of the affiliate products that I promote and they still do work. The problem that I found was that for each new affiliate product that I was promoting, whether it be here, or in the emails I send to my subscribers, I had to upload a brand new 'file' to my webhost. That is until I discovered a much easier way to do this. It's a very easy way to manage as many redirects as you want, and it's FREE and easy to manage with just a single file. Let me give you an example. My good freind, and one of my mentors, Doug Champigny, has just released a new PLR package in a smoking hot niche. You can pick up his Aromatherapy PLR Package and have the rights to do just about anything with it. You will need to read the license agreement to find out what you can't do, but that's pretty standard with a package like this. The Aromatherapy PLR Package includes a 50 page eBook in .doc & .pdf formats, 10 Aromatherapy Articles, mp3 audio versions of all 10 articles, TWO sets of website graphics, PLUS the .jpg AND .psd graphics for everything! After all of that, you won't believe the price. I told Doug that he needed to go see his therapist with the price that he is offering this package at. You will notice that when you 'hover' over the link, it looks like you are going to go to a page on my site (http://www.ron-barrett.com/AromaTherapyPLR.html), but you aren't. You will be 'redirected' to Doug's site. This is something that ALL affiliate marketers should be doing, but a majority don't. Why? I am not sure. Maybe it's because they think it's a bit too complex to create the file and upload it to their site. Well, I am here today to show you how easy this really is. The person I learned this from claims that it is so easy, even a five year old could do it. It is now my preferred method of creating redirects. There are a couple of problems with linking directly to an affiliate page with your ID. The obvious reason is that someone could steal your commissions if they are also a member of the same affiliate program (which is common if it is a large program like Clickbank). The other main reason is that a lot of people are wary of clicking on long affiliate links, things with lots of letters and numbers. This seems to be more and more the case as I sometimes see these mile-long links, with un-needed crap in them like "id=xxxx", "www.yourwebsite.com/cgi-bin/affil-id=xxxx" etc. A good affiliate link should have two items MAXIMUM. If the program is specifically towards one URL it should only have one piece of information, your affiliate name (preferably a name instead of a number). But that's not always within your control. The most common thing I see a lot of affiliates doing is just creating the folder or the file and doing a simple redirect. So if that person needed the URL: http://www.yourwebsite.com/theaffiliateprogram ... To send the user to: http://www.affiliateprogram.com/?affiliate-id They'd physically make the folder on their site and add in an index.php redirect. Sometimes they'll also use .html redirect, which uses meta tags... which means the .html file has to actually load before the redirect takes place. That makes the trip take even LONGER and in the meantime the visitor is staring at a blank page. This would be ok, but what if you were promoting 20 or 30 or 40 affiliate programs? That's a lot of folders to get the coding exactly right and to upload each and every time you add another program. Anyway, now that I have given you reason to change the method you use Promotions ron-barrett@comcast.net no no http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/the-biggest-secret-of-internet-marketing-revealed http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/the-biggest-secret-of-internet-marketing-revealed#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:38:42 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=73 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/the-biggest-secret-of-internet-marketing-revealed/feed 6 http://www.ron-barrett.com/general/relationship-marketing-its-all-about-perception http://www.ron-barrett.com/general/relationship-marketing-its-all-about-perception#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:57:46 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=61 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/general/relationship-marketing-its-all-about-perception/feed 8 http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/5-solid-reasons-why-articles-are-the-most-powerful-tool-for-driving-traffic-to-your-website http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/5-solid-reasons-why-articles-are-the-most-powerful-tool-for-driving-traffic-to-your-website#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:05:44 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=53 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/article-marketing/5-solid-reasons-why-articles-are-the-most-powerful-tool-for-driving-traffic-to-your-website/feed 5 http://www.ron-barrett.com/uncategorized/overcoming-your-fear-of-private-label-rights-ebooks-plr-ebooks http://www.ron-barrett.com/uncategorized/overcoming-your-fear-of-private-label-rights-ebooks-plr-ebooks#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:52:16 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=41 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/uncategorized/overcoming-your-fear-of-private-label-rights-ebooks-plr-ebooks/feed 3 http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/flipping-plr-videos-into-your-own-product-branding-plr-videos http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/flipping-plr-videos-into-your-own-product-branding-plr-videos#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:00:59 +0000 Ron Barrett http://www.ron-barrett.com/?p=32 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.ron-barrett.com/promotions/flipping-plr-videos-into-your-own-product-branding-plr-videos/feed 4