Deep linking increases conversions and produces bigger sales because you are taking your customer directly to the product featured. Your post or site content created interest, now take them directly to the page where they can buy! If they have to search for what you were talking about, they might get sidetracked or even leave the site completely.
ShareASale network makes it simple to create a link directly to the page you want. Login to your ShareASale dashboard and hover over Links at the top. One of your Link choices will be Create a Custom Link. We have marked up a screen shot of that Create A Custom Link tool so you can follow step-by-step.
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- 1. Open a new tab in your browser and go to the merchant site to find the page you want. Copy the url of that page from the address bar.
- 2. Go to the Create A Custom Link tool you see above and select the merchant from the drop down menu on the form.
- 3. Skip over the optional tracking for just one step and go to the Destination URL box. Paste your copied URL into this box. Now use your left arrow key to go to the beginning of your pasted URL and make sure the duplicate http:// is removed. I think they tried to make it easier for us to see what belongs in that spot and instead made it harder to execute. But it’s easy to fix if you remember.
- 4. Now go back to the Optional Tracking box and add something to help you identify this link when it shows up in your sales detail. Use letters and numbers but no spaces or symbols. Example: HolidayGiftIdeas or Example 2: HGI
You’re ready to click Create Custom Link. The result you get is the destination part of your link. If you’re coding HTML you need to add the <’s and the a href part, including any text or image you want. If you’re using a link creator like the one in a WordPress blog, this is what you paste in the http:// pop-up form.
If you’re advanced, you can create your own custom links and even shortened links for social media by using the instructions ShareASale has on this same Custom Link page. Just hovor over the little information circle and the specific coding for creating a shortened “license plate” url will pop up. You can use the custom link creator to do the same thing, but if you are creating a large number of direct deep links, this will be useful.
