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If you are like most people, the error pages on your site are the default pages provide by your host. In the past, I’ve encouraged affiliates to customize these pages, but many affiliates have come back to ask how to get the error traffic to the customer error pages.

Error messages occur due to a number of different conditions taking place on your site. These error conditions generate numbers to refer to the corresponding error condition.

Some of the more common error messages are as follows:

Error in Client

• 400 Bad syntax
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not Found (this one is the most common)

Error in Server

500 Internal Error There are a few different ways you can create your error pages.

Create Error Files

Just create error pages and name them as follows:

error400.html
error403.html
error404.html
error500.html

Place these files in the home directory of your domain.

Create a .htaccess File

First, create the HTML page you wish to use as your error page and upload that file to your home directory.

Then create a .htaccess file and add lines that specify which pages should come up in place of the generic error pages. Below are examples error documents to specify that will be called for a given error condition:

ErrorDocument 400 http://www.your_domain.com/400.html
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.your_domain.com/403.html
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.your_domain.com/404.html
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.your_domain.com/500.html

Just add these lines to your .htaccess file and upload the .htaccess file to your home directory.

Add a Snippet of Code to Your .htaccess File

Plug the following bit of code into your .htaccess file, and then create a custom error file named “error.html” that contains your error message content.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /error.html

Whichever way you create your custom error pages, be sure to test after you’ve finished setting them up. If you are having problems, contact your host.

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Have you ever wondered how Super Affiliates make the big bucks? Well, they use some key tools (and don’t tell anybody about them!).

One of their techniques is to transform a hard to remember, long, complicated affiliate link into a short, easy to remember domain name. And then forward that domain name to an affiliate link.

Most, if not all, affiliate programs, will not permit you to use their name, or any variation of their name, but you can register a generic domain and point it to your affiliate link.

For example, I use one of my domains to promote a spyware removal software. So I have a compact, seven letter domain name, rather than trying to market the actual affiliate link.

This is not a domain that you would expect people to type into their browser. I use it when I place listings in Pay Per Click search engines, like Enhance Interactive, FindWhat, Google AdWords, and Overture.

So instead of sending users to my site, I drive them straight to the sites with a domain that makes sense for the particular site.

Most any domain registrar should enable you to forward a domain to a url for little or no cost.

It’s also helpful to have a domain for your affiliate link in your opt-in newsletter.

Not only does it give you a shorter URL to feature, but also it gives the impression that you’re featuring a link as a public service, not because you are making a commission through it.

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