Are you involved in affiliate reselling? Are you worried about what to do with that horrible, long affiliate link? It’s too clumsy for practical use, and you are actually prohibited from using it in good article directories and some forums. What do you do? Well, here are some very easy ways for staying in the affiliate game by earning money through redirects.

A redirect is where you use a URL to point to another URL. You can easily set it up through your webhost. Godaddy, which I use, has a panel whereby you simply plug in the URL you want your domain name to point to. It takes mere seconds.

So, let us say you are promoting a knitwear affiliate program, and you own the domain name “www.myknitwear.com”. (Not a live link!) Through your webhost, you should be able to set it up so that your domain– “www.myknitwear.com” — points to your affiliate link. The person who clicks on “www.myknitwear.com” is taken to your affiliate page. This way, you don’t have to display your huge, enormous affiliate link to the whole world, making you look more professional.

Do you see the potential of this? In theory, your domain name can point to any URL you want! Let’s see what this gains for us affiliate marketers.

1. Are you a great writer?

Top quality article directories do not allow you to use your affiliate links in articles. There is a good reason: article directories are primarily interested in promoting good content, not providing a platform for blatant sales pitches. So, use a redirect!

Just make sure that your top level domain (which has the format “www.mysite.com, .net, .biz, etc.) is totally relevant to your niche and the content of your article.

Avoid using a free hosting service at all costs. It makes you look like a novice, because your domain name will now include the name of the free webhost.

2. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum!

Again, some forums have restrictions on how you may promote yourself. The emphasis is, again, on good information and good exchanges between forum members, not affiliate selling or any other kind of selling for that matter. A redirect can help you here as well.

Earning money through forum marketing is cheap and effective. But forums do not like you if you are too brash with your promotions, and are not willing to give as well as receive. Get it?

3. Changing horses.

Suppose you no longer wish to be an affiliate reseller for a product because you have found a better one to promote instead. But— you have your affiliate link all over the internet!

This would not have been a problem if you had used a redirect to start off. When it’s time to change from one product to another, just change the “target URL” of your redirect. (This assumes you are still in the same niche, of course!) Now, your top level domain points to the new product, and the change takes effect all over the web simultaneously. Isn’t that neat?

4. It’s time to blow your own trumpet!

At a more advanced stage, you may want to stop promoting an affiliate product altogether, and promote your own product instead.

Redirects are the ideal help. When you are ready to launch your own digital product, and the sale page is set up, again you just change the “target URL” of your redirect to your own product URL. The change is effective everywhere on the web all at once.

Now all the sales go into your pocket, and you don’t share with any other vendor.

Buying your own domain names is super cheap! All the good webhosts have a search facility to help you find unused, good domain names. There are plenty of good names still available; it just takes some imagination and patience.

For those of us in affiliate selling, a good redirect is like a good jacket that never goes out of style. Earning money through redirects is simple and cost effective because of it’s ease and flexibility.

Can earning money through affiliate reselling really work for you? To find out, visit www.affiliatemarketerinfo.com today!