DRUMROLL PLEASE! (turn sound on!)

Only one kind soul was good enough to enter my contest, the fantastic Mr. Jeremy Botter!

I was lucky enough to meet Jeremy in February at Affiliate Summit.  Very nice guy, and I’ve been following his blog since.  Apparently, he’s been following mine!

You can (and should) go read Jeremy’s post here.

Since Jeremy was good enough to indulge me, I’ve given him his choice of prize and he’s chosen to take the generous James Seligman up on a silver Creative Vado.

So thanks to James and congrats to Jeremy!

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In a possible fail of the Disqus comment system (say it ain’t so, @DanielHa!) I’ve been informed that the comments on my original blog post about my contest appear to be closed.

So in an effort to wrap this bad boy up, entries are welcome via comment on ANY post. Deadline is still Sunday.

I’m going to stick with my original way of entering – write a post in your blog about why you read my blog. Link baiting? I won’t deny it. I got a good suggestion from Andrew Wee of WhoIsAndrewWee.com to forget the link bait entry model and go with random or a survey. Good idea, but it’ll have to wait for the next contest. I’ve never been one to change the rules mid-game (unless it meant winning at Monopoly).

First prize is still a 6 month subscription to Trackur reputation management service courtesy of Andy Beal. Second prize is a Creative Vado pocket video camera courtesy of James Seligman. Third prize is 6 months of ad space at FreshySEO.com courtesy of Eric J. Odom.

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If you’re like me and have jumped into affiliate marketing head on, you may not know some of the nuances of using affiliate links. Recently, James Seligman of JMCA Media schooled me on how to really easily set up PHP redirects for your affiliate links to make them a bit more user friendly. Let me share this knowledge with you!

• Open up Notepad or a similar text editing program.
• Add the following code:
  <?
  header(”location:affiliate-link-goes-here“);
  ?>
• Replace the portion in italics above with the tracked link from the program of your choice.
• Save the file as a .php file with whatever name is easiest for you.
• Upload it to a designated diretory or folder on your website. Some possible names for the folder are recommends, deals, however you can call it whatever is easiest for you.
• When you want to add an affiliate link, just add the code <a href=”/recommends/affiliate.php”>Affiliate </a>

It’s that simple! I had head of PHP redirects before but, not knowing PHP very well myself, I never looked into how to do it. Luckily James was there to show me just how easy it is!  And now you have a weekend project to go mask all your affiliate links!

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