Using Start Xchange to Your Advantage

Hey folks!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. The Mini URL debacle continues. At first I was breathing a sigh of relief as it seemed that The Mini URL was no longer lost in cyberspace. However, it seems to have winked out again. When you have 50+ links cloaked with a service, it ain't too good if that service suddenly blips out of existence. Perhaps they're experiencing major server problems or something. I don't know, I'm not a tech. All I know is that I can't keep losing leads and sales, so I'm continuing to slowly switch my cloaked links over to Link Brander.
Today I just wanted to take a minute to talk about Start Xchange. I call Start Xchange the "General" in my Traffic Exchange Army. The free service is great, but for only $6.95 a month you can advertise up to 25 URL's and 10 banners. Plus, Start Xchange has something that few other traffic exchanges have: the chance to earn points daily for advertising your Start Xchange link on other traffic exchanges! During this past week I earned 65 points to have my sites displayed on Start Xchange without doing any work at all simply because I advertise my Start Xchange link on all the other traffic exchanges I use. Getting something for nothing is always a positive as far as I'm concerned!
If you aren't already a member, do yourself a favor and join Start Xchange today. Then whenever you join another TE, put your Start Xchange link in first and start earning something for nothing every day!
To your internet marketing success,
Jobkiller

Mini URL Drama Continues

The Mini URL is still MIA. I've cloaked so many links using this service! If they don't return, it means hours of work for me to change all the links over to new cloaking services. Fortunately I have most of the original affiliate URL's recorded in a note pad.
I need to get some sleep so I'll have to continue this task later (and hope that the Mini URL service returns in the meantime.) I have switched the links in the two most recent posts to Link Brander. Check out how I cloak my Link Brander affiliate link with Viral URL--slick, huh?
The thing that's really irritating is that I can't switch out the links in the emails I sent to my safelists. I'm going to have to resend the emails using the new link if the Mini URL doesn't reappear. And that's nothing but a pain in the can and a waste of time!
Revisit this post to see why cloaking your URL's is important. Today's lesson is that if you are an affiliate for multiple products like I am, recording both your original affiliate link and the cloaked version is important. Just a plain Notepad file works really well for me. It ain't fancy but it's easy to update and gets the job done!
Have a great day and profitable marketing!
The Cheesemeister