Power Link Generator from Mike Filsaime
Price: $97
http://111659.com//Powerlink
For a variety of reasons, many subscribers and customers don’t like the idea of you getting a commission when you recommend a product.
Some will attempt to bypass your link replacing it with their own.
So when these folks see an affiliate link like this:
http://www.Gigtime.com/?296343
They’ll replace your affiliate ID number with their own. While some affiliate programs have measures in place to prevent this, many don’t.
Others think they might get a better deal if they don’t go through your link.
So if they see that link: http://www.Gigtime.com/?29634, they’ll cut off the numbers or just type in Gigtime.com. When that happens, your commission is lost.
For some time, the solution has been to use programs that cloak the affiliate link so people can’t bypass your link. Using this software, a link like this:
http://www.Gigtime.com/?29634
Could become this: http://www.YourDomain.com/Gigtime.
Another problem with regular affiliate links is that they can be quite long. Have you ever seen an affiliate link like this one?
http://www.Greatest-Internet-Marketing-Deal-On-The-Planet.com/?cgi-bin/16322xb4/product_3/affiliate.html
Long urls like this tend to interrupt the flow of your message. What’s worse is that they often wrap to a 2nd line. When a reader clicks on the link, only the first line is picked up. So the link either doesn’t work at all or your affiliate info is left off.
For a few years now, I’ve used my buddy Ray McNally’s “Affiliate Commission Booster” to cloak my links. It does a great job of that but I need more than just cloaking.
Ray’s program cloaks the links and even uploads them to my website. But it has no tracking feature. So I have to create tracking links in another program but that’s not the biggest challenge.
I don’t know about you but I sign up for a lot of affiliate programs. Keeping track of all those affiliate links, my username and password and login details to check my stats and commissions can be a hassle. I have to use yet another program to do that. So each time I create a new link, I have to use three different pieces of software.
Mike Filsaime to the rescue
I met Mike earlier this year at Ted Nicholas’ Birthday Bash in San Antonio. He’s a great guy and a rising star in Internet marketing circles.
Mike has created a new program called Power Link Generator that can make your life a lot easier if you do affiliate marketing or any ad tracking.
Unlike most affiliate cloaking software, Mike’s program installs on your website. If you have any experience installing simple scripts on a server, this is a quick and easy install. It took me all of five minutes.
If you’re not a techie, Mike will install it for you within 24 hours for an extra $27.
Once it’s installed, you login to a page on your website, enter a username and password and you’ve got instant access to all of your campaigns. You’ll be able to see at a glance detailed stats of how many clicks you’ve gotten plus all of the login and contact details for each affiliate program.
Ordinarily, I’d create a video tour of the program for you but Mike’s already done that. To see the video now, click here.
Bottom Line: At $97, this program is about double the price of most affiliate link cloakers but it has three times the features. Ultimately, it will more than pay for itself by saving you lots of time.
Tip:You can set this up on any domain you’d like. What I’ve done is setup a new domain (111659.com) just for my affiliate links. I wanted a short domain name so my affiliate links would be short like this: http://111659.com//Powerlink
111659 is my date of birth so it’s easy for me to remember. 🙂
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Hey Bill,
Thanks for this review. We’re starting to accumulate a lot of affiliate links now that we’re doing about 12 blogs.
This may be just what we need !
Thanks for the nice review…
It was nice seeing you in San Antonio
Mike Filsaime
Thanks for the comments. I thought I had purchased a good product (and still hope that I have). But I have been unable to install it.
I came across your site only when searching for “how to install POWERLINGK GENERATOR” But my difficulty is how does one install this (idiot’s guide essential)? And once installed, how does one alter the links of the pages on one’s site that already have the links created with the aid of one’s own web editor?
Do you know if Mike has a demo of the installation and more, besides? If so, where is it hidden?
I’d be very grateful if you could assist. Otherwise I’m going to have to request a full refund.
Regards.
Hi, not sure why you’re asking me rather than Mike but I do know he offers a very inexpensive install. If not, you could probably hire someone on rentacoder.com to do this for you for ten to twenty bucks. I installed mine myself but it’s been a while. — Bill
I’ve been coding PHP and participated in the apache web server and the PHP projects as a contributing open source author.
I have installed every script on this or any other planet. Sometimes I have a couple problems, but nothing you can’t get around.
In this case, I opened the index.php and instantly found that it had autogenerated the file wrong in the installation.
Even after fixing that little bug, the script still will not redirect anything. I just get server errors.
I’ve tried the new method, the old method, the text file method and the mysql method and the result is the same.
The admin area works PERFECTLY but it won’t redirect a darn thing.
Thanks, Dave. My installation continues to work although sometimes the admin is very slow. I doubt the script has been updated to be compatible with server upgrades over the past couple of years. With your PHP experience, why not try to create a new and improved version? I’d definitely get behind it if you do. — BH