I’m still not crazy about the whole concept though, for the reasons I mention above. Opening a second window is a bit spammy, and may be seen as such. Referring others to ViralURL isn’t the same as building a list (or rather, it’s building a list of people who are interested in free link cloaking solutions).

Still, a solution like ViralURL is great for those people who don’t have web space of their own available, and are still in the “send people straight to affiliate pages” mode. It at least gives them a way to easily cloak URLs.

Plus you don’t loose focus of your main offer with it’s viral frame as it opens in a new window (your main offer stays open).

It’s list building works as according to it’s over 28,000 users it’s one of the best converting ways of safelist mailing.

Best regards,

Frank Bauer

Here’s the link

If you want something that does the same thing, but is more of a package, go to the Free Link Cloaker site. You have to join a list to get the package, but otherwise it’s free.

If you work it the way you’re doing, taking advantage of placing ads on other people’s pages, I can see where you’d get benefit from it.

While I agree with what your saying to some degree. I personally use viral link cloakers to build my list.

No, I’m not talking about the list inside of the cloaking site. I’m talking about driving traffic to all of my different squeeze pages, through the placement of ads, that I’m able to place that show up on other people’s sites, because of the viral capablities.

So, I don’t actually email any members inside the viral site. Never have, actually and I completely see your point there, but, it also gets me prospects for my real lists in which I can build a relationship with these people.

I guess there is a few ways to look at it! It does work though. I do enjoy new subscribers because of using this method.

Cheers and thanx for the good post.

Davin

http://www.davinatorbiz.com/honestbrands/