Smart URL Redirection

September 5, 2008 | By David Kwan In Affiliate Marketing, Rants |

Let me share with you my recent experience …

I am switching all my domains to a new hosting.

As part of email marketing campaign, I have all the messages set in my autoresponder and follow up with my readers on a daily basis.

Here is something cool.

In my autoresponder messages, I promote my own How to Approach Women course but my readers not able to access the website because DNS not populated fully.

Since all my redirection was handled by Affiliate Shield, it automatically switch to another affiliate program which I set as an alternative.

Take a look at the alert email generated by Affiliate Shield.

Subject: AffiliateShield Alert – site down
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:05:37 -0700
Alert!

Site http://www.approachingwomentips.com/main.html is down (04-Sep-2008 [16:05:17]).

Switched target to http://www.artofapproaching.com/main.html

Don’t you think it is great ? By using Affiliate Shield , I can protect myself from lost of revenue as the result of the site I am promoting is unaccessible.

However that’s not my main reason using Affiliate Shield. It has other great feature that are more promising …

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