Since I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for almost 3 years now, I’ve come to wonder how I could make my affiliate links look a little bit more eye-appealing without looking completely like an affiliate link that many people wouldn’t want to click with a 10 foot pole. I’ve also wondered if having such obvious affiliate links would leave me open to losing commissions - because sometimes people cut the affiliate part off the links and just go to the site. Maybe I’m just worried that I’m losing clicks generally over my very big affiliate links.

I don’t know, and to be honest over the years I’ve tried many scripts and links. I’m not a programmer, so I’ve often loaded up a program and then just stopped using it. Because it was so much of a hassle. Or after loading it up - the thing didn’t even work like it was suppose to - and I’m left adding more code to my sites and wondering why things aren’t working and I’m back to square one and have lost hours and hours of my time trying to figure them out.

I was frustrated.

Then I cam across the Affiliate Link Tracker software and I had an opportunity to try it out. The owner of the product, Will has been really nice and helpful and I thought I’d give it a try - because at least I could talk to Will if anything went totally pear shaped with the script.

So since I downloaded the software and read the instructions and uploaded it to my server I went to load the program. Um… it didn’t work. I rattled my brain trying to figure it out. Today I’ve figured it out. Um… yes, it was a “me malfunction”. I created the folder for the script through my ftp program, but really I should have gone directly through my cpanel to do it. Today I did that and in 2 minutes I had the script set up and working.

I feel so dumb.

This is the dashboard screen - totally easy to understand and has a really nice layout. From here you can add groups for your links, manage or add links, and config your layout of the dashboard and the server side.

Can I say - so far I’ve added a group and a link and now I’m going to test it out.

So I enter this link from Clickbank.com

http://**MyID***.**offer**.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=***LinkyThing***

Yes it looks completely horrible and I think it could be easily ripped off. So I put that into the Affiliate Link tracker and got this:

http://www.buildingmyempire.com/recommends/affiliate-link-tracker

I think this looks so much better. Now you can set up the link to be search engine friendly and you have the option to load the script into any folder. I named mine “recommends”, but it could be anything you want .

If you’re interested in covering your affiliate links and having 100% control over the software that will re-name the links, then the Affiliate Link Tracker script would be ideal. I had everything up and running in 5 minutes. I am in love with this script and thought I’d share it with you.

I found this video at YouTube about how to set up the script to work on your site: