Occasionally, I receive an email that I like to answer in open forum because I think it might benefit other people. Today, I received such a mail. It was from a person who wants to promote the White Dove Books site but is unsure how to go about rebranding our books and syndicating articles. So thanks for asking Dennis.
Let’s deal with the subject of rebranding first. Before we start, I need to let you know a little about the new Cookie Law in the UK and how this may affect things. This law came onto the statute books last May in the UK following a EU directive. We were hoping the government would see sense and repeal it, but the present situation is that UK websites have until this coming May to comply.
The new law affects both rebranding and referring because – you guessed it – both of these mechanisms make use of cookies. Now, we are working behind the scenes to come up with solutions to these difficulties that do not interfere with the user’s browsing experience. However, the point I want to make before I address the specific questions asked is that we may be forced by law to change the way the current mechanisms work and this could have consequences for what follows. That said, here we go.
With regard to syndicating articles, you can use any of my articles located at the eZinearticles ite for this purpose; not the articles I publish at White Dove Books. Here is a list of articles available for syndication:
The first article in the above list (at the time of writing) is entitled ‘Motivation: What Is Motivation?’. If you look at the bottom of the ariticle, you will find the Author’s Resource Box. In this case, it contains two links to our site. You may embed your affiliate id in these two links:
Here is the Resource Box from the above article:
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If you enjoyed this article, you will also enjoy The Inspiration Blog
Will Edwards is Founder of http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk
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With regard to the first link, you may use the following code:
http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/bookstore-index.htm#yournickname
With regard to the second link, you may use the following code:
http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/index.htm#yournickname
N.B. You need to change the referral ID (ClickBank Nickname) to your own Nickname i.e. the one you chose when you setup your ClickBank account. You change ‘yournickname’ to your own ClickBank Nickname, so if the Nickname you chose was tomhanks, then your referral links would look like this:
http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/bookstore-index.htm#tomhanks
http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/index.htm#tomhanks
You can use your own anchor text in the links to make them more user friendly. Here is a nice free resource that allows you to do that.
Here is a neat video that explains how to rebrand a PDF book. You use the same principle described above in rebranding our books i.e. you embed your own ClickBank Nickname.
Now, let me reiterate that all of the above could change at anytime between now and May. It is something that is outside of our control. We have done what we can to try to influence the UK government, but if this new law remains on the books, changes will have to be made in the way that referrals are made to our site.
We are looking into a new way of rebranding our books right now and it looks very promising. As soon as I have more information, I will of course let you know. Finally, if you are interested in working with us as an affiliate, I recommend you join our Affiliate Program.
