Pretty links tutorial

The need for Pretty Links

Pretty Lnks is a great all-in-one link management plugin for WordPress. It allows you to create clean and simple URLs to redirect to any other URL on your WordPress site. Using this plugin, you can create redirects for your existing site content or for external links such as affiliate links, bundle them, and share them easily on multiple platforms.

How to use Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a custom link shortener, branded link manager plugin for WordPress, and URL redirect tool. Pretty Links gives you full control over how your links look and where they redirect. It also allows us to organize, group and automate your linking strategy completely.

Link tracking

Link management is essential when you are working with many brands. Pretty Links allows you to group links using categories and tags.This feature will also allow you to search and replace links with ease. This is especially important if you are participating in unique events like Black Friday sales where the sale stays only for a limited time. You should go ahead and replace the expired links later.

Link Cloaking

Link Cloaking is a technique in which a web page displays one URL to human visitors and another URL to search engines. This is done by using redirects or disguising the linked webpage through various methods. This tactic can be used to attract more search engine traffic at the expense of user experience if implemented incorrectly.

Track Quality of Traffic

As your affiliate marketing blog grows, you’re most likely to use the same affiliate links on multiple pages of your site. Let’s imagine that the affiliate program that you’re promoting, suddenly changes your affiliate link. Now you have to find every blog post where the said affiliate link is added and replace them with the new affiliate link. It will not only take too much time to find and replace the affiliate link but it will also result in loss of affiliate commission. This is where link management is so important for an affiliate marketer. With Pretty Links all your affiliate links are created at a single place. If your affiliate link code provided by your merchant changes, you’ll just have to update it ONCE in the Pretty Links Dashboard and all your links in the blog article will work as usual. Super cool isn’t it.

Link Management

Link Management is one of the best features of Pretty Links even though this feature is only available in the Pro Version. Link Management affords you complete control over the links on your website and how they appear. With this feature, you will not only have links looking better, but you can choose a target URL. One of the key aspects of affiliate marketing is monitoring your statistics. Pretty Links give you the ability to track link clicks on the web. Your link clicks can help you track your potential earnings and improve your website. With this knowledge, you can make changes to improve the performance of links or to remove them if they aren’t getting enough link clicks. One important thing you should do is to exclude IP addresses from stats. With Pretty Links, you can do just that. Pretty Link analyzes and reports on the performance of your links, allowing you to optimize your affiliate strategy. It offers information on how well A/B tests perform, how many clicks each link has in a given period, and how well the links convert.

Monitoring for Links

You can customize the report to see clicks for different periods of time. Whether you want to see all the clicks or only unique clicks can also be enabled under the Customize Report option. If you want to see the click performance of any particular affiliate product, you can enter the product slug inside the Search Clicks option and it will display all the clicks that particular product has received in the selected time frame. All the reports under the Clicks option can be easily downloaded in your computers as a .csv file.