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Tip of the Day: Make Links Using Your Own Images

October 12, 2016 by ShareASale Author

It’s easy to personalize the links on your website or blog to provide a more visually appealing experience to your readers. There is definitely a place and a purpose for traditional banner ads but taking your Affiliate links and attaching them to images within your posts is a more native and authentic approach to your promotional activity. 

To create your own links, log in to your account, click on the ‘Links’ tab and then click on Create a Custom Link

When this page opens, you will be able to choose the Merchant you want and enter the URL of the page you want the link to go to. 

You also can enter any additional tracking that you want on your end which we call the ‘afftrack’. You can also ask for a short link URL called a ‘License Plate Link’ on ShareASale. I will attach some blogs under “Additional Resources” at the bottom of this tip explaining more about this feature.

For example, I want to have a link to ShareASale Merchant Baseball Rampage as my blog discusses the Detroit Tigers. Today’s blog talks about Miguel Cabrera and though I’d like to have a link to Baseball Rampage who sells a replica of his bat, I want to use a picture of Miguel holding it. So here is what I’ll do.

First, go back to the Create a Custom Link page and choose Baseball Rampage from the drop down Merchant List. 

Second, I’ll add an afftrack value of “Miggy” to follow it in my ShareASale reports.

Third, I put in destination URL as the page with the bat on Baseball Rampage.

Finally, I’ll choose to not have a shortened URL at this time.

My custom link to be used is as follows: 

http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?u=182699&b=87861&m=13358&afftrack=Miggy&urllink=www%2Ebaseballrampage%2Ecom%2FBaseball%2FBaseball%2DBats%2F7147%2FSam%2DBat%2D2013%2DRMC1%2DSelect%2DMaple%2DBat%2Ehtml

I can use any image or text with this link using standard HTML linking formatting and that is how you create a clickable link for images on your site!

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Can't Find the Right Text Link? Create Your Own! - ShareASale Blog
Can’t Find the Right Text Link? Create Your Own! – ShareASale Blog
In your journey through Affiliate Marketing, there will likely come a time when you want to direct readers to a specific page on a Merchant’s website. But what if this specific link doesn’t exist in the Merchant’s Creative Inventory? You create your own in three simple steps utilizing the ShareASale Custom Link Tool!
 
Six Ways to Optimize Your Site for SEO - ShareASale Blog
Six Ways to Optimize Your Site for SEO – ShareASale Blog
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be a bit daunting and hard to understand at first, but it is a key to the development of your blog and its longtime success. In the following article, I’m going to offer you six tips on how to optimize your site and find SEO success.
 
Tip of the Day: Get Involved in the Affiliate Marketing Industry! - ShareASale Blog
Tip of the Day: Get Involved in the Affiliate Marketing Industry! – ShareASale Blog
The Affiliate Marketing industry puts on a variety of conferences and events throughout the year that are full of educational sessions to benefit Affiliates, Merchants and agencies. Regularly attending these events is a great way to expand your overall knowledge of the industry, fuel new strategic initiatives and engage in quality networking. There are ample opportunities …

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