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How to Insert Your Affiliate URL

Your affiliate URL is vital. Be sure you type it in correctly, or you will not receive a commission on any traffic that you send to our site, nor will you be able to determine how much traffic you are sending our way. Here's a correctly formed URL:

http://www.scholarshipgrantguide.com/?AFFILIATE_ID

Your own affiliate code (ID) will replace the AFFILIATE_ID part of the URL. You chose your own code when you signed up.


How to Link to Any Page Within the SGG Site

You want to link straight to the affiliate signup page? Or straight to the order page? Whatever you decide, here's the way to do it right.

To send someone to an alternate web page all you need to do is include the FULL URL of the page you want someone to go to at the end of your affiliate URL. Here's an example, linking to the page named affprogram.htm

http://scholarshipgrantguide.com/affprogram.htm?AFFILIATE_ID

The example above should be one long continuous link. And of course you'd want to create this link in a redirect page. Use the redirect info below if you need to.


How to Create a Redirect Page

Savvy affiliates have their own websites, and their own domains. They create redirect pages for the programs they are promoting. To create a redirect page, do the following on your web server:

1. Create a new directory, for example, "sgg"
2. In this new directory, place an index.html page.
3. In the code of your index.html page, you will have what's called a meta redirect. The code for the redirect is...

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=URL">

Replace URL with your affiliate coded link. Change the zero to a larger number if you want a longer pause before the page refreshes and redirects. The number corresponds with the number of seconds delay you desire, if any.

Example: If you have a domain named "SchoolSupply.com" and you create a new directory (folder) named "sgg" then the URL that would promote would be "http://schoolsupply.com/sgg/" and your complete meta redirect code would appear as follows (wrapped due to column width constraint):

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=
http://www.scholarshipgrantguide.com/?AFFILIATE_ID">

Anyone clicking the link you promote, "http://schoolsupply.com/sgg/", would be redirected through your affiliate coded link, contained in the meta http above.


How to Make Images Clickable or "Hot"

Okay... so you've seen the banners and images we have to offer, and you've even downloaded the ones you want to use on your site. Now how do you make them 'hot' or 'clickable'? These are the basics:

In your HTML, where you want the image to display, you place the following code:

<img src="your URL here/graphicname.gif">

If you replace "your URL here" with your actual domain name, and replace 'graphicname.gif' with the actual image name, the image will be displayed. So far, so good.

Now, how do you make the image 'hot' or 'clickable'? By adding the anchor tag. (The "<a" is the "anchor" and the </a> completes the anchoring.) Like this:

<a href="URL being linked to"><img src="URL to image"></a>

This makes the image the 'hot link'. Here's the full code you can study that will take you through an image button and to the home page of SGG:

<a href="http://scholarshipgrantguide.com/index.htm"><img src=
"http://yoursite.com/images/button.gif"></a>

NOTE: Replace the above with your affiliate coded link. For example, if your code was "fireants", the above link would look like this:

<a href="http://scholarshipgrantguide.com/?fireants">
<img src="http://yoursite.com/images/button.gif"></a>

 

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