To being a successful affiliate you need to know about the tools that will make you successful. Domain name forwarding is a good tool that should be used by all affiliates. New affiliates dont take advantage of it, because they want to build an online business for free, and thats why most of new affiliates fail.
Domain name forwarding is a service that provides you an option to hide your ugly affiliate link without any technical knowledge. Yes, there are some other methods to hide affiliate link for free like TinyURL.com, but there are a number of benefits of domain name forwarding and masking. Here are they:
You can hide your affiliate link as well as you can completely hide the URL of merchant site. For this, you just need to mask your domain name over the merchant sites URL while forwarding your domain.
Affiliate marketing is a trail-and-error process, if you find that your merchant site is not converting any sale, then you can change your affiliate program/product without changing your domain name.
If you choose short and descriptive domain name, then it will be memorable for your possible customers and it will increase your sale.
These days people are more aware about affiliate link and they are more likely to buy a product if they dont see any affiliate like.
So the question is how you will choose domain name hosting, forwarding and masking services.
There are so many web hosting companies those provide all these type of service. You just need to choose any of them and buy a domain name. Lots of companies will offer you to buy a domain name for fewer than ten dollars for a whole year. You can buy .net, .info, .com or many others that fit on your affiliate product.
Once you buy your domain name, login in your account and choose the manage domains tab. Thereafter, you should click on forwarding tab. You will get instructions to paste your affiliate link. You should choose the affiliate link where you want to forward your domain. Finally, click on update or save change tab and your work have been done.
Now if you want to hide the URL of merchant site, then you can hide it by URL masking. Just click masking on or masking enable tab while forwarding a domain. This service is very beneficial while promoting an internet marketing product.
Successful affiliates dont hesitate to invest a little money on new affiliate marketing tools. Domain name forwarding will give you many benefits while promoting an affiliate product. The biggest benefit of it is you can change you affiliate products without any hassle if you find that your affiliate product is not converting sales.