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I’d like to start off by saying that I really don’t like this. As most of you people that are already signed up for Text Links may know, TLA has changed their referral link structure to use that of tiny URL (http://tinyurl.com) and will no longer be using the old referral links anymore. I received the following e-mail message explaining the changes:
Justin,
As a Text Link Ads affiliate we?re pleased to let you know that we’ve begun using tinyurl.com to shorten and secure our affiliate referral links. We encourage you to update your affiliate links using the following:
Homepage URL
http://tinyurl.com/3a4mgvStarter Promo URL
http://tinyurl.com/2pf3ub** Please note that our old affiliate URLs will no longer work in one week so please update today. Thank you!
I’m sorry but when I think of Tinyurl, I think of people trying to mask bad content in a way that no one will know what they are clicking on, I have never and will never click on a tinyurl link unless I create it myself. In my personal opinion I think that the old referral links worked just fine, and were just the right size,
The trick is to hide the referral link from your visitors, and make it look like it’s just another ordinary link on your website, this can be done by a simple Meta redirect. You’ve probably heard of this tactic elsewhere, and it actually helps. Instead of my links being
it’s
http://superjustin.com/now/tla.html
Simple - Yet Effective!