I submitted a article to articlesbase.com yesterday and it got reject because i used a my direct affiliate link in the anchor text. How do i use articles to drive traffic if i can't you my affiliate link in the article LOL

Sorry if this is a dumb question. Im still a newbie taking action. Im focusing on making money using clickbank so any and all help would be appreciated

A landing page is what you need most likely. Although I haven't tried it out myself, I've seen some people make awesome landing pages that actually do an extremely good job upselling the product. The conversions were higher than just directly linking to affiliate sites.

if i create a landing page, wont that mean that the potential buyers will end up seeing to sales pages or what do i put on the landing page..

and is there any other ways to drive traffic using article marketing without creating a landing page..

Yes, exactly that is is the point of a landing page - that is why you need to do a good job upselling whatever you're promoting. Copyrighting in itself is a different science.

In the first place, why are you using article directories as a traffic source? Why don't you try SEO, or if you have some cash to burn PPC.

i figured that article marketing was a good way to drive traffic.
i got money to spend. how does ppc work now?

purchase a cheap .info domain name and forward with masking using your affiliate URL.

Originally Posted by genebadd

purchase a cheap .info domain name and forward with masking using your affiliate URL.

Yes, either do this above ^^

Or create an opt-in page, get them on your list then mail them the offer..

Create your landing page.

Use the landing page URl in your resource box

People click your resource box, they go to your landing page, and if your shit is good they will click your affiliate link.

Repeat

Landing page or domain redirect (top level)

Use URL shortener like bit.ly or tinyurl. I used it and pass easily. just my 2 cent.

URL shortening doesn't work. If the resulting URL end in "?hop=affnick" it'll be deemed as a direct affiliate link. One way to combat this is to check out this: hxxp://blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/clickbank/386614-article-marketing-how-avoid-being-rejected-clickbank-affiliate-links.html

Read this by DamonJ

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...ml#post3619755

The above works well. There are two ways to do it.
Using a forwarding CGI script or just a basic html script on an index.html page.

I think that articlebase is one of the best site to submit your article, I rank it at no#2 after the ezinearticles.

Submit an article for reading not for marketing with correct grammar and paragraph brakes.
Do not submit inappopriate content.

Originally Posted by CallMeJohnDoe

i figured that article marketing was a good way to drive traffic.
i got money to spend. how does ppc work now?

Stay focus in Article marketing before moving on to PPC. Why ? PPC is not free you got to keep testing it for which campaign that has the best ROI and also what keywords....what landing pages...You might as well stay focus on Article Marketing first then after stable, move on to other marketing platform...Like Youtube or Facebook creating a fanpage...

Articlesbase actually does a good job. I submit articles with SEO optimized in low competition and it ranks in the first page.

In the past I got my articles rejected too due to affiliate links. All you need to do is just contact them and 'complain' there are tons of AB articles that use direct affiliate links (myself included) and 100% of the time the article is accepted again.

Not sure, but I reckon its one dimwitted editor who has problems in life and thus goes the extra mile to reject articles that doesn't fancy him.

That said, creating your own landing page with good content + cta definitely helps.

Good luck.

Most article directories have cracked down on direct affiliate links in articles. It doesn't matter if you shorten your URL's, either way if the resulting url ends in "?hop=AFFNICK" you'll get your article declined.

A great way to stop this is to use this script. In an essence this script retrieves the clickbank cookie and then redirects you to the affiliates landing page without "?hop=AFFNICK".

Without script:
domain/landing-page/index.php?hop=AFFNICK

With script:
domain/landing-page/index.php
And if the user purchases the product, you'll still get the commission.


I didn't create this code, but it works perfectly.
Script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $q=new CGI;

### specify here your default affiliate nickname. it will be used
### if you don't add parameter a=youraffnick in the URL (see README.TXT)
$affnick = "youraffnick";

################################################## ##############################
### nothing to change below
################################################## ##############################
$v = $q->param("v");

if (!$q->param("a")) {
$a = $affnick;
}else{
$a = $q->param("a");
}

if (!$q->param("v")){
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Error: vendor nickname not specified\n";
exit;
}

$url = "http://$a.$v.hop.clickbank.net";
GetLink($url);
&PrintPage;

sub GetLink {
$nurl=shift;
$id=shift;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0");
$req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => $nurl;
$req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
$res = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success) {
$content=$res->headers_as_string.$res->content;
$real_url=$res->base;
$content=~/URL=([^\s]+)/;
$newurl=$1;
$real_url=~s/\?.*$//;
} else {
$real_url=$url;
}

}


sub PrintPage {
$body = qq~
<html>
<head>
<title>Loading...</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
setInterval("window.status='Loading...'",50);
</script>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function UpdateLoader(){
document.all.Loader.innerHTML = '<a href="$real_url"><b>Click here if your browser sticks on this page</b></a>';
}
setTimeout("UpdateLoader()",3300);
//-->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
function forward() {
window.location.replace('$real_url');
}
setTimeout("forward()",1200);
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="silver">
<img src="$url" width="1" height="1" border="0">
<div align="center"><center>
<table border="0" width="100%" height="98%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center"><div align="center"><center><table width="100%" border="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 14pt">
<td align="center" ID="Loader"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 14pt">
<td align="center"><noscript><a href="$real_url"><font color="black"><b>Click here if
your browser sticks on this page</b></font></a></noscript></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center></div>
</body>
</html>

~;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $body;
exit;

}

- Change where it says "youraffnick" to your clickbank affiliate nickname.
- Save the code with the .cgi extension and upload to the cgi-bin on a webhost.

To Use It:
E.g. domain/cgi-bin/link.cgi?v=VENDORNICK
OR domain/cgi-bin/link.cgi?v=VENDORNICK&a=ANOTHERAFFILIATENICK

You can get the vendor name from the clickbank marketplace. Just find a product and click "Promote". In the new window look at the red bar at the top, it should say "Affiliate Program: Promote Products for 'AFFILIATENICKNAME'"

Source:http://blackhatworld.com/blackhat-se...ate-links.html

you can use short url

As much I know you are allowed to make anchore in your artilce; but the independance is guided by the rule of your article directory. Before doing this just have a look on the rules. May be some wan tyou to be more matured in that directory like forums.