Internet Marketing of Tourism Products

So you made an amazing auto-responder email series, you wrote tons of brilliant articles, and you have an extremely catchy landing page that sucks in the leads. Yet in some way you’re getting almost no sales and you don’t understand why. Sound familiar? I know this is a pretty widespread quandary, but it’s unfortunate that persons still haven’t figured out what’s causing it.

I’ll try to explain a little of what’s happening to your sales throughout this article. Opposite to what you could be thinking - it is completely feasible that your sales funnel is causing bunches of sales, but you’re not seeing any of the commission. Obviously this is a pretty big problem that you’ll want to take care of as soon as possible.

Basically what’s happening is this: the user is changing your affiliate ID to their own, or spyware on their computer is doing it. Both of these will stop you from getting credit for the sale even though you’re the one who made it. There’s no way that you can stop them from doing that, unless you use link cloaking or url masking.

Link cloaking is when you program a redirect on your website that hides affiliate ID’s and makes it impossible for spyware or users to stop you from getting sales.

I believe you grasp the difference this may perhaps turn out, you may perhaps be giving someone else all of your sales already. Instead of making money from your sales funnel you might be just handing it off to someone else.

Even if you generate sales all the time with no problems, a few of them may still be plundered. It shouldn’t hurt anything to start cloaking your links so you lock in the sales. The drawback is that it can be tricky to turn out a competent link cloak, unless you’re a programmer (or something of that nature).

Instead you can use one of the many link cloaking services on the internet, but I wouldn’t suggest you just use the first one that you find. Many of these will actually mess up the tracking cookies and you STILL won’t get credit for the sale. You need to make sure that you’re applying a cloaking service created for affiliate marketing - and there aren’t nearly as many of those.

I have heard horror stories of people who used redirection services such as TinyURL and Bit.ly - apparently they are notorious for often screwing up affiliate links and not giving you credit for any sales. As a rule other link shortening services will be inflicted with these problems as well.

The best link cloaker is one that you can put on your own site so you don’t have to worry about anything breaking down or not working properly. As I spoke of earlier though, this can be challenging to put together if you aren’t a programmer - or have a mind to compensate one.

I recommend you go here and get this free report about link cloaking and the best services for affiliate marketers. I don’t know of any better place to learn what works, and what doesn’t.

Discover more about link cloaking in the free Cloak and Dagger Affiliate Secrets report. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box.

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