As you can see, the two adverts are exactly the same, except for the link at the bottom.

In the first advert, the link looks like it's a special offer while in the second advert, the link is very obviously an affiliate link.

Affiliate links like this look very technical and can raise subconscious doubts - and even associations with spam - in the minds of potential customers.

This of course seriously reduces the chance of "getting the click".

The problems with affiliate links don't stop there though.

Affiliate links also suffer from many other problems, such as so called "link chopping", where visitors see that the link is obviously an affiliate link and chop off everything after the ".com". This common practice can cost your affiliates a good chunk of their commissions.

If you've been around for any length of time on the Internet, you're probably already familiar with the concept of redirect and cloaking pages.

These offer a good solution, allowing the affiliate to hide their own link, making it look like a page on their own website.

The problem with these is that most affiliates don't have websites, or don't understand the concept, or just plain couldn't be bothered to create and upload a special redirect page for every single affiliate link.

There's another major problem too, which you may not even have considered.

Every time one of your affiliates uses a redirect page, it means one less link to your site.

You see Search Engines don't count redirect pages and cloaking pages when they evaluate the number of links pointing to your site.

Since the number of links pointing to your site is one of the major factors in determining your ranking on the search engines, this can directly affect your website traffic.

Affiliate links may be necessary for your affiliate script or system to track affiliate sales, but they sure carry a lot of problems!

Now I'd like to tell you about Affiliate Safe Link Builder, a quick and easy system which offers simple solution to all of these problems for all of your affiliates.

Affiliate Safe Link Builder is a script installed on your website which allows your affiliates to create their own "safe link" for their affiliate link.

If you're familiar with the concept of a redirect page, a safe link is similar to this except that it resides on your web site, not on the websites of your affiliates.

To create their safe link, your affiliates simply enter their affiliate ID and their name (or any suitable name they want).

They click a button and the software instantly builds a new safe link, turning this...

http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/affil?r=1234

into this...

http://www.mysite.com/specialoffer/l/john

Since all your affiliates need to do is to fill in their name (john in the example) and their affiliate ID (1234) in a simple form, even the most non-technical affiliates - and affiliates without their own websites - can still take full advantage of this system.

Since it's so easy for affiliates to create their own safe link, even those affiliates who do have websites are more likely to just create a safe link instead of messing around creating their own redirect or cloaking page.

Since all these safe links are located on your website, any links on other sites that point to these safe links will directly boost your search engine ranking.

Affiliate Safe Link Builder is really easy to setup and can be operational in just minutes.

There's detailed step-by-step instructions and there's no databases required.

Once you've set it up, you can just let your affiliates know about it and then forget all about it as the system is fully automated.

The script is compatible with the vast majority of web hosts, requiring just support for PHP (no databases are needed).

It will work with any affiliate script or system and you can even use it if your affiliate program is operated through the popular Clickbank system, providing increased protection for your affiliates and increased search engine ranking for you.

Affiliate Safe Link Builder helps your affiliates to get more clicks (so you get more sales), helps secure your affiliates' links from "chopping" (putting more money in their pockets, so they keep on promoting your site) and helps boost your search engine ranking.

With this clever and very simple script, everyone comes out a winner!

One of the drawbacks of running an affiliate program is the need to pay your affiliates every month.

Your affiliate script or system probably generates a list of payments to be made, but unless you're really lucky, it will not help you to actually make the payments.

Many affiliate programs are now making payments via Paypal, as a quick and easy way to transfer money.

If you are already doing this or are considering this, you will love our special Affiliate Paymaster software, included FREE with your copy of Affiliate Safe Link Builder.

Paypal offers a facility called "Mass Pay", designed for making lots of payments, however this is not available in all countries.

For many marketers, it can also be quite daunting to use as this is a rather technical system which transfers large sums of money to lots of different people automatically.

The alternative is to pay each person, one at a time using Paypal's Send Money feature. This is of course slow and it's very easy to make a costly mistake.

Affiliate Paymaster is a brand new, easy to use Windows tool which automates making these payments for you, saving you time and effort, while reducing the chances of making expensive mistakes.

From the screenshot below, you can see how simple this software is...

Just take the list of payments generated by your affiliate script and paste it into the box on the software. Enter the name of your affiliate program and click the button.

Affiliate Paymaster will instantly show a payment page like the one shown below.

As you can see, for each payment to be made, the page shows details of the payment and a Paypal "pay now" button.

To make your payments, just click on each Paypal button in turn, causing a web browser window to open at www.Paypal.com with all the payment details already set up.

Just enter your Paypal password, click the confirm button to make the payment, then close the web browser window to move onto the next one.

As each payment is made, a red tick appears next to it, ensuring that you do not accidentally pay someone twice.

Your entire payment run is completed in a matter of minutes, making the whole process quick and painless.

Affiliate Paymaster is compatible with any affiliate script or system which creates payment data separated by commas, tabs or spaces and it doesn't care what order the data is in (it will sort it out automatically).

This means that it will almost certainly work with whatever script or system you are using.

This simple software can save you so much time, effort and hassle, not to mention substantially reducing the scope for costly errors.

I could easily sell this software for a high price on its own, but you'll receive it completely FREE when you order your copy of Affiliate Safe Link Builder.