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Dave
02-13-2006, 09:19 PM
I was wondering if it is possible to redirect customers to a page other than the main page? For example, I would like to send customers directly to the signup form.
JCsDesignz
02-14-2006, 02:26 AM
Can you not just use the sign up url for the link ?

Im not sure why anyone would want to though. Surely anyone who signs up is just going to click to the main front page anyway to find out what they are getting. :)
Dave
02-14-2006, 02:35 AM
Can you not just use the sign up url for the link ?
Not that I'm aware of. I wish there was a way.


Im not sure why anyone would want to though. Surely anyone who signs up is just going to click to the main front page anyway to find out what they are getting. :)

I have a promo page that has tons of information about Bluehost so if they decide to sign up while on my site I would want to send them directly to the signup page. I think in my case, its turning them off when they go to the main page.
JCsDesignz
02-14-2006, 02:45 AM
I have a promo page that has tons of information about Bluehost so if they decide to sign up while on my site I would want to send them directly to the signup page. I think in my case, its turning them off when they go to the main page.

Ahh im with you now LOL :o

Can you not just use this link ?

http://www.bluehost.com/sign_up_now.html

or am i still missing something :)
Dave
02-14-2006, 02:55 AM
Affiliate links need to be tracked. So the link I must use to send people to Bluehost must be: http://www.bluehost.com/track/[AccountName]/

When a user clicks on the link, it will count them and send them to the main page.
JCsDesignz
02-14-2006, 03:00 AM
Oh yeah. LOL I should have known that from my own affiliate to Daz on my site :o

I should imagine Bluehost can give you your affiliate number (or whatever they use) so you can incorporate it into the track and sign up link. I managed to do it with my Daz affiliate link and it seems to work LOL

Edit:
Great site by the way. Wish id found that when i was scouting around for a host LOL
Dave
02-21-2006, 11:12 PM
Interesting, since I started posting to this forum with my affiliate link in the signature, I have had 0 sales for 167 Google adword clicks. I was getting 1 sale about every 40 before. What a shame. So far that's a loss of about $400 for me. I'm throwing in the towel now. I give up. I don't know what else to do and it appears nobody else does either.
Dave
02-22-2006, 12:39 PM
Talking to myself here... Ah I know what's going on! People are reading all the negitive feedback here in the forums and running away.