A Step Above Direct Linking… And A Free Script

For a lot of the offers that I promote I use the framing approach. It's better than direct linking for a lot of reasons. And a lot of money is being made this way.

Truthfully, it's super easy to setup a framing campaign, especially with the slick script that I will be giving you In most cases you will likely make more money by having a landing page...but that's not always the case. The fewer clicks to the money page the customer has to perform, often times, the better chance at a conversion.

Framing An Offer

Here's how it works in a nutshell. You buy a domain name related to the offer that you are promoting. I recommend GoDaddy for cheap domains. That domain name will always stay in the address bar of the browser and the web site for that domain name will be a 0% frame across the top...so, in essence, non-existent. The landing page for the offer that you are promoting will display in the bottom 100% frame. That's the quick and dirty way to do it. There is a better way....use my free script for more of an advanced approach.

The Free Framing Script

I have been using a basic framing script for awhile now. I recently saw a similar script over at CashTactics.net which had some cool features. I decided to improve on both of them.

Here are the main features:

• Keyword Injection and Tracking: Optionally inject the searched keyword passed from the PPC engine to the Title of the page. It will display the title in proper case and replace hyphens with spaces. Also, you can pass the keyword to the affiliate network via the sub id. (Edit: Check out SubIDs.com for an explanation on how subid tracking works.)
• Split Testing: You can create a group of similar offer URLs and the script will cycle through them so you can see which offers are converting and which aren't.
• URL Groups: If you want to use the same domain to promote offers in multiple countries, for example, you can create URL groups. One group can be for Canada, one for US, one for the UK, etc. There is no geo-targeting but you can pass a group id in the query string to determine what group to use.
• Flexible Title Value: You can specify a default title, and decide whether the keyword passed in through the query string will over ride the default title. You can also create a static value to add to the beginning of the title and/or to the end of the title.
• Meta Tags: Include meta tags for keywords and description.
• Extra Tracking: If you want to track extra info there is a ppc variable that can be passed in the query string. Generally, I use it to distinguish between the PPC engines that my ads are on. So I might add &ppc=g for Google for example. Then, in the reports on the affiliate network, if I decided to track keywords, I will see something like: g-keyword in the sub id. That tells me that the keyword "keyword" resulted in a conversion from my ad on Google.

It's pretty straight forward to use. It's commented heavily so you can probably figure it out. If not, please comment here and I will answer any questions that you have.

Getting The Script

The script is free like I said. To get it, just sign up to my feed by email. If you are already signed up and you want it contact me here or on AIM.

To use the script, follow the instructions below:

• Sign up to my RSS feed by email.
• Download the zip file to your computer from the link provided.
• Unzip the file and you will end up with 2 files: index.php and info.dat.
• You'll probably get excited about how easy this is and want to create lots of them. If you do, get a hosting package that lets you host unlimited web sites. (less than $100 per year)
• Buy a domain name closely related to the offer(s).
• If you use GoDaddy for hosting and have the unlimited package, here's a post that shows you how to setup the additional domain names to be hosted.
• Modify index.php to suit your needs.
• Upload the 2 files (index.php and info.dat) to the domain name folder.
• CHMOD info.dat with 666 (make it writable). This can usually be done within your FTP software. In FileZilla, right click the file and chose File Attributes.
• Test
• Come back here if you have any questions.

You can take a look at a test I setup for Build A Niche Store related offers. You can't see much except it rotating through two different offers. You can View Source to see the meta tags, etc. The best way is to get it yourself and try it out. Sign up now to get it.

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