does deep linking really work

[ralph38]

Im just wondering since i began as an affiliate marketer i have had little success and now im starting to wonder about deep linking. whenever your marketing company gives you a deep link to promote some sites and not others are those deep links working like they say they do or am i leaving myself open to loosing profits. I have found that affiliate marketing can be fun rewarding and a lot of work but im beginnig to loose the wind in my sails and pull into the harbor and shut it down.so again i ask does deep linking protect profits or make you an easy target. just newbie trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel

[Kevin]

Deep linking works if it linking to a specific promotion or product and you want to promote that then it is a win win you want visitors to do as little page hopping as possible so if you can point them straight to what there looking for then all smiles.

[philpe]

Hi

Deep Linking works, as long as the traffic you're sending to that link is actually looking for that product. Let's say you have a blog about the iphone, you're better sending that traffic to depplink for the iphone than for a homepage where they'll still have to nagivate until they reach what they're looking for.

Philpe

[JessicaWhite]

I agree. If they have to do too much before they complete the action, the conversion rate goes down. I have been playing with this a little bit recently and checking the abandoned goal funnel in Google analytics. It helped me make sense of where I was loosing sign ups and I am now doing much better.

[multimastery]

Landing pages are very important - so deeplinking makes absolute perfect sense! Just ask yourself if you were looking for a specific product would you rather go to the homepage -- or land on the exact page for your product of interest?