Program Review: Viral URL

It’s important that you learn how to track your links when you are advertising online. ViralURL is a great resource that not only tracks your links but also hides the affiliate link so that others cannot “steal” your sales.

The purpose of this post is to introduce you to a very unique system and show you how I use the system and the results that come with use, this system is called ViralURL and is the brain child of Colin Klinkert & Frank Bauer, two very successful online marketers.

What is ViralURL?

ViralURL is a link cloaker as well as a link tracker.

What does that mean?

Let me explain.

Tracking is simple – it is a way to find out how many people visited your website. Tracking can tell you where your visitors came from as well as when.

Link Cloaking is a bit more complicated but necessary!

I am an active member with the Easy Video Producer (as most of you are) and our Affiliate URLs are somewhat awkward and easy to "steal" (someone can easily put another ID in or simply go to the main site and you would lose their contact). Here is what the main url looks like:

http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=144

With ViralURL, I easily turned that link to this: http://vur.me/sykaro/evp

When your visitor clicks your tracking link, here is what they will see. They'll find a bar across the top, it's small and not invasive - I will discuss the power of this ViralBar later in this post - they will also see a link to join ViralURL to the right of the bar - I will discuss this later as well. Below the bar is my website. If you right click the site, you cannot find the information for it - there is no way to discover the original website address. Your link is safe and your visitors are secure. Not only does ViralURL protect your link, it also tracks your visitors ! This helps in deciding what advertising resources are working for you.

Ok ... so that's what ViralURL is and how it works, now let's talk about setting it up and using it effectively.

NOTICE: ViralURL is free to join and you can benefit from the system as a free member. If there is one program online that I recommend an upgrade in, it's ViralURL. Take a good look at the site and review the information when you are presented with the one time offer. Take it, you'll be glad you did once you learn to use it as I describe below.

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Setting up your ViralURL account

In this section, I'm going to take you through the steps of the areas that you need to setup. I am directing this article to my Easy Video Producer website so that you can easily duplicate what I'm doing here. You can also use this system to promote any website.

ViralBar Ads The ViralBar Ad is the bar you see at the top of my ViralURL cloaked link Once logged in to ViralURL, click on Ad Credit Section and click on Manage Bar Ads. Your level of membership will determine how many Bar Ads you can have displayed. For this lesson, you want to setup one Bar Ad so you can be using your system effectively right away.

Enter Ad URL 1 (start with http://): enter your website that you wish to advertise. In this exercise I entered

http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=144

Enter Viralbar Ad text 1: Create a Video Lead Capture Page Free

Now my ad will be seen on the members' Viral Bar Ad. They will see the text Create a Video Lead Capture Page Free and it will be linked to my Easy Video Producer website.

http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=144

Now here is what is really exciting about using ViralURL to cloak your affiliate links. When you advertise your ViralURL link and visitors click the link, the system tracks the hits for you and a percentage of visitors will join Viral URL to use the same system and a percentage of those new members will either take the One time offer, or they will upgrade to a monthly paid membership. When they do this, you earn a commission based on your level of membership.

Viral Email Ads Viral Email Ad are ads that show up at the top of members emails when they send emails through ViralURL. From your members area, click on Email Section, then click on Set Email Ad.

Enter Text for line 1: Create a Video Lead Capture Page Free

Enter Text for line 2 (optional): leave blank

Enter URL (start with http://): http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=144

Now that your ViralURL system is setup, you are ready to start using it to advertise your lead capture blog.

Setting up Viral URL Cloaking link Click on Cloaking Section then Click on Add URL's: Click here to add new cloaking URL's Here is what you will find:

URL (start with http://):
Keyword (Optional):
Page Title (Optional):
Enable Credits [?]:	Yes No
Viralbar to be placed at:	Top Bottom

Now let's talk about each section so you understand what to put here. In the first section, you place your Easy Video Producer website (or the website you want to advertise).

Example: http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=144

The Keyword section is where you enter a "code" to let you know what this site is for. In my example, I'm using the keyword evp tells me the link I am promoting is my Easy Video Producer website.

Page Title: You can leave this blank

The next two sections default to yes (Enable Credits and Place the ViralBar).

I recommend you place the ViralBar at the top which is the default selection. You are now ready to save your Viral URL and begin advertising.

The VIRAL URL I created now looks like this:

http://vur.me/sykaro/evp

and when my visitors click that link, they are taken to my Easy Video Producer page and the system tracks the visitors to my site.

Advertising Sample

SUBJECT: Free Video Lead Capture Templates

BODY:

Hello [NAME],

Janet Legere here.

I am having so much fun creating the videos and it is SO
easy with Easy Video Producer. Have you seen this new
program yet?

Even as a free member, you can create a video and create
a lead capture page to build your list. Much like I did
in Earth Friendly Biz.

Here is the link to Easy Video Producer:
http://vur.me/sykaro/evp

It will take two minutes of your time to signup and
check it out. I know you will LOVE this and if you
don't have a video camera, don't worry ... just pass
it on to your friends who do!

I'm anxious to hear what you think.

Have a great day,

Janet Legere
List Building Expert

When someone reads my ad and visits my link, I will see the results in my ViralURL back office. There is also a good chance that the visitor will signup to use ViralURL. I am able to track my visitor to signup statistics and also track my advertising resources so I know what is and is not working. You are now well equipped to use ViralURL, cloak your links, track your hits.

I almost forgot one very important feature ... as an upgraded member of Viral URL, you can email up to 3000 members every 3 days ... that's 30,000 random members every month!

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