Affiliate marketing is a very important aspect of Internet marketing. The more the visitors brought by the affiliate, more will be the rewards. Thus the efforts of the marketer is well rewarded provided those efforts translate into more visitors. There are lots of affiliate networks operating and numerous other affiliates/publishers promoting the service or the product of their partners.



The model is very useful but there are some drawbacks with it and the biggest one being that due to long URL, these links generally fall in to spam links category and the whole purpose of going for such a program is lost. Most of the marketers use the standard long links which link the customer to the seller directly. The customer can easily identify when such links are used and are hesitant to follow the link. Using such standard links make the link more vulnerable to hackers and people who are waiting to steal your commission.

Even if you paste the URL at some forums or message board, they are so long that they won't attract the traffic. Also a long URL doesn't give a good impression to the user and it is very unlikely of them following the link, because they are already so much saturated with promotions that they don't want to get into it anymore. At times you deliberately don't want to divulge to the user the URL because of the fear that they would come to know that it is an affiliate link, and then also you hide the URL. But now, there are various websites available which can hide your affiliate URL by making it very short. One such website is http://www.dom.ir/u.php, which provides free short URLs.

Using the path breaking service provided by doms.ir you can simply hide your standard URL and reduce it to merely a few alphabets. Such links look more professional and have huge turn out ratio. You can convert a URL like http://www.yourhost.com/user/~yourdir/yourdir.htm to http://dom.ir/2.

The process is very simple and won't consume more than a minute of your precious time. All you need to do is simply log on to http://www.dom.ir/u.php. There you have the option of either going for a randomly generated URL or generating a URL of your own choice. Pick any one of them by clicking on them. When you follow the link, you will be taken on a new page and there you will be asked to enter the URL you want to hide. Simply hide the URL and if you want to enter your own URL then enter it or simply let the website pick a short free URL for you randomly. When you click enter, you will get your transformed URL.

You will notice how sleek and professional it looks as compared to the one you entered. This shortened link can then be used the way you wanted to use the original link. This free short URL can lead to more clicks and increased revenue and not to mention protection from Malware and hackers. You can even get a free domain name from this site which can be utilized as a marketing tool. By using these tools you can make your website touch new heights.