Pocket Money Finder

Though not many bloggers like me would like to reveal their monthly income but in my opinion i should , so that my readers know how much i do earn each month.My monthly income consists primarily of revenue earned from Rentacoder for my technical jobs online , contextual advertising from Bidvertiser , Affiliate Income from hosting and Surveys .

If you use long and ugly affiliate links, there is a better way to hide them to a shortened URL of your choice.The best part is these affiliate links looks as if the part of a site itself.Many times users dont want to click your affiliate links or some trick it by removing your affiliate id.Though its unethical and everybody should avoid doing this since the effort taken by the publisher goes in waste if he does not earn the credit for providing you the useful information about the product that you decide to purchase.

If you have a long URL like :

mydomain.com/2008/01/03/my-post-with-a-long-url

Using Gocodes shortens it to a easy to read:

mydomain.com/go/mycoolpost.

GoCodes let’s you create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your Wordpress Admin. The plugin is thus very useful for masking affiliate links.GoCodes is a free plugin and that is the beauty of wordpress blogs where you have access to hundresds of free plugins from contributors from around the world.

Installation :

Upload the entire gocode plugin folder directory to your Wordpress blog’s plugins folder situated at (/wp-content/plugins/).

• Activate the plugin on the “Plugins” tab of the administration panel.
• To manage your redirects, open your Wordpress admin, and go to the Tools > GoCodes
• Enter your affiliate link as shown below.
• Track your affiliate links and clicks.

Note :

You may choose the URL redirections to be NOFOLLOW and NOINDEX

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Since long i have not written anything for this blog.The reason behind this is my total dedication and time for my other tech blog OneTrickADay.But that’s a bad idea when i have some nice readers like you.Today i will discuss about how you can promote your affiliate links in an effective way.

Since long affiliate business has been a major reason for online success for many sites.Services and products are being sold online and the internet has become key area for various business opportunities.

An affiliate is one who brings business to a company by referring and sending potential customers to the seller.So whenever there is a sale , the person referring (affiliate)gets a portion of the sale in form of commission.

so if you are an affiliate , how are you going to refer more customers.Its has to be something very effective and free .

Here are few techniques I have used myself to promote affiliate links :

1. Spamming – A complete No .The world hate spammers, so do I.
2. Blogging – You can start a free blog in Blogger or wordpress.Since the beginning i have laid more stress on blogging because of a simple reason “Blogs are easy to create and maintain”.You an make free blogs and name them accordingly.If you want more freedom you can host your own blog.I would recommend Wordpress for self hosted blogs as they are the best.I would be writing more about self hosted wordpress blogs and how to popularize your blog in the cyber space in my next posts.
3. Google Adwords – You can advertise your products via the Google Adwords.Though its not free but stands effective if you want quick sales.