This amazing widget will save you a ton of money http://www.mysite.com/offers/1723.htm

This amazing widget will save you a ton of money http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/refer.cgi?r=1723

I expect that you picked the first one.

As you can see, the two adverts are exactly the same, except for the link at the bottom.

In the first advert, the link looks like it's a special offer while in the second advert, the link is very obviously an affiliate link.

Affiliate links like this look very technical and can raise subconscious doubts - and even associations with spam - in the minds of potential customers.

This of course seriously reduces the chance of "getting the click".

The problems with affiliate links don't stop there though.

Affiliate links also suffer from many other problems, such as so called "link chopping", where visitors see that the link is obviously an affiliate link and chop off everything after the ".com". This common practice can cost your affiliates a good chunk of their commissions.

If you've been around for any length of time on the Internet, you're probably already familiar with the concept of redirect and cloaking pages.

These offer a good solution, allowing the affiliate to hide their own link, making it look like a page on their own website.

The problem with these is that many affiliates don't have websites, or don't understand the concept, or just plain couldn't be bothered to create and upload a special redirect page for every single affiliate link.

Now I'd like to tell you about Affiliate Safe Link Builder, a quick and easy system which offers simple solution to all of these problems for all of your affiliates.

Affiliate Safe Link Builder is a script installed on your website which allows your affiliates to create their own "safe link" for their affiliate link.

If you're familiar with the concept of a redirect page, a safe link is similar to this except that it resides on your web site, not on the websites of your affiliates.

To create their safe link, your affiliates simply enter their affiliate ID and their name (or any suitable word they want - for example: "specialoffer").

They click a button and the software instantly builds a new safe link, turning this...

into this...

Since all your affiliates need to do is to fill in their name (john in the example) and their affiliate ID (1234) in a simple form, even the most non-technical affiliates - and affiliates without their own websites - can still take full advantage of this system.

Affiliate Safe Link Builder is really easy to setup and can be operational in just minutes.

There's detailed step-by-step instructions and there's no databases required.

Once you've set it up, you can just let your affiliates know about it and then forget all about it as the system is fully automated.

The script is compatible with the vast majority of web hosts, requiring just support for PHP (no databases are needed).

It will work with any affiliate script or system and you can even use it if your affiliate program is operated through the popular Clickbank system.

Affiliate Safe Link Builder helps your affiliates to get more clicks (so you get more sales), and helps secure your affiliates' links from "chopping" (putting more money in their pockets, so they keep on promoting your site).