Bridge page for affiliate marketing
A page of your own
between the post
and the offer.
A bridge page is the page between your post and the offer. Someone clicks from your Facebook post or Reel and reads a few honest paragraphs in your words: where you started, what the offer is, who it suits and who it doesn’t. They see that you earn a commission, then click through, or leave their email if they aren’t ready. On a blog you control, it warms the click, keeps the people who would otherwise leave, and becomes a page search engines can find. This guide is for students of OLSP Academy who want a home base of their own. It covers a free blog to start, a builder that writes and checks the page, and the rules for affiliate pages.
By the Builderify team
What a bridge page does
that a bare affiliate link can’t.
A link straight to your Megalink gives each click one chance: join now, or leave for good. A page in between gives it two, and the second one builds a list that’s yours.
It warms the click
Someone who has read your story and your “not for” arrives at the offer knowing why they’re there.
It keeps the not-ready
Most people won’t join on the first visit. A free checklist in exchange for an email turns a lost click into a subscriber.
It’s a page you own
On your blog, it keeps working when a post scrolls away, and search engines can find it. A copy of the sales page won’t: Google treats that as thin affiliation.
Write your bridge page,
then check it before it goes live.
Fill in the parts only you can write. The checklist tells you what’s missing, and the scan flags the phrases that get affiliate pages into trouble. Try the risky line to see it work.
20 words
If you’ve come from my Facebook post, here’s the longer version I promised.
Where I started
[Two or three sentences in your own words: where you started, what you tried, and what changed. No income figures.]
What it is
OLSP Academy is where I learn affiliate marketing: step-by-step training, weekly live sessions and a community of people at the same stage.
Who it’s for, and who it isn’t
It suits beginners who can give it a few hours a week and want to learn properly. It isn’t for anyone who needs money this month, or wants results without doing the work.
Results depend on your own work. I can’t promise you any income, and nobody honest can.
I’m an OLSP affiliate, so I may earn a commission if you join through this button.
[your Megalink]
- Your story, in your own wordsAt least 25 words of your own, with the blank filled in. A page copied from the sales page is what Google calls thin affiliation.
- Says who it isn’t for
- The commission, next to the button
- One button, with your linkPaste your Megalink, or a short link to it.
- No earnings or “no experience” claims
- A second chance for the not-ready
Nothing that reads as an earnings or “no experience” claim.
TITLE What I wish I’d known before my first affiliate link POST If you’ve come from my Facebook post, here’s the longer version I promised. ## Where I started [Two or three sentences in your own words: where you started, what you tried, and what changed. No income figures.] ## What it is OLSP Academy is where I learn affiliate marketing: step-by-step training, weekly live sessions and a community of people at the same stage. ## Who it’s for, and who it isn’t It suits beginners who can give it a few hours a week and want to learn properly. It isn’t for anyone who needs money this month, or wants results without doing the work. Results depend on your own work. I can’t promise you any income, and nobody honest can. I’m an OLSP affiliate, so I may earn a commission if you join through this button. BUTTON TEXT See the training I use BUTTON LINK [your Megalink]
An affiliate blog for beginners,
free to start.
Six steps, and only the last one costs money: a domain of your own, usually about $10–15 a year for a .com. Everything else runs on the 250 free credits a Builderify account gets each month.
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Create the blog
FreeIn Builderify, open Blogs and create one. It starts on a free address, yourname.builderify.blog; choose the name in Settings › Domain.
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Name it and pick a theme
FreeGive it your name, a one-line description and a logo, then choose one of the themes. Changing theme later never touches your posts.
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Write the bridge page as a post
FreePaste the text from the builder. In the post’s call-to-action, put the button text and your Megalink: the button shows under the post in every theme. Publish it, and the address is /posts/your-post-name.
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04
Add a popup for the not-ready
Leads: 1 credit eachIn Popups, start from the “New Posts by Email” template, a slim bar at the bottom of the page, or open it on exit intent, after a scroll or a delay. Signups go to a lead list and are asked to confirm.
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05
Add your Meta Pixel, if you advertise
FreeSettings › Pixel takes a Meta Pixel ID and a Google Tag Manager ID, and loads them on every page of the blog.
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Move to your own domain
Domain: about $10–15 a yearWhen you’re ready, add your domain in Settings › Domain and publish a TXT record and a CNAME. The free address keeps working until the domain checks out. Do it before you share links widely, and it’s the same domain you’ll send your emails from.
Once the page is live: put a short link to it in each post so you can see which platform sends readers (how to track clicks per platform). Add a quiz for readers who want to know where to start.
Four rules for affiliate pages,
from the FTC and Google.
Two keep you on the right side of the law, two keep the page in Google’s good books. A summary to help you write honestly, not legal advice for your case.
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Disclose, right by the link
FTC Endorsement GuidesAnyone who endorses a product and gets paid through affiliate links should say so, and “the closer the disclosure is to your recommendation, the better”. “Affiliate link” on its own may not be clear; a plain sentence is.
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Add value, don’t copy
Google spam policiesGoogle calls it thin affiliation when affiliate pages copy the merchant’s descriptions “without any original content or added value”, and says good affiliate sites add value with original reviews and real information. Your story and your “not for” are the value.
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Mark paid links
Google link attributesGoogle asks for paid links to carry
rel="sponsored", ornofollow, which it also accepts. An affiliate link earns you money per sale. -
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No earnings promises
FTC money-making noticeFalse or unsupported earnings claims are unlawful, and so are claims that no experience is needed or that people must act now. The scan in the builder looks for exactly these.
The home base the rest
of the series builds on.
The blog is where everything else in these guides plugs in: the popup that grows your list, the follow-up sequence that writes to it, and the quiz that sorts it. At the published rates, the widget’s page loads are 10 credits per 1,000 and each new lead 1, from the 250 free credits a month.
What the blog does
- A blog with posts, categories, comments and a sitemap, free on builderify.blog or on your own domain
- A call-to-action button under any post, with your own text and link
- The Builderify widget on every page automatically, so popups, quizzes and chat work without pasting code
- Meta Pixel and Google Tag Manager on every page from two fields
- Views per post and per day
Know this first
- No standalone pages yet: the bridge page is a post, at /posts/…
- The post button and links in posts have no rel="sponsored" option yet
- On the free address, the domain is Builderify’s; your own domain makes the page fully yours
- Widget page loads count against your credits: 10 per 1,000
- OLSP-hosted Hub Sites can’t run the widget; the blog replaces them as your home base
Bridge pages, before you ask.
A page between your post or ad and the offer you promote. It explains in your own words what the offer is, who it suits and who it doesn't, says you earn a commission, and links through with one button. Readers who aren't ready can leave their email instead.
You need a page you control. A free Builderify blog starts on its own address at builderify.blog, and you can move it to your own domain later, usually about $10 to $15 a year for a .com. The Builderify widget loads on every blog page, so a popup can collect emails without extra code.
A headline that matches the post they came from, a few sentences of your own story, a plain description of the offer, who it is and isn't for, a commission disclosure right above the button, one button with your link, and something free for readers who aren't ready to click.
Not if it adds something. Google's spam policies call it thin affiliation when affiliate pages copy the merchant's descriptions without original content or added value. Your own experience and an honest "who it isn't for" are the added value. Google also asks for paid links to carry rel="sponsored" or nofollow.
Yes, in the US. The FTC says anyone who endorses a product and gets paid through affiliate links should disclose it clearly, and the closer the disclosure is to the recommendation, the better. "Affiliate link" alone may not be clear; a plain sentence that you earn a commission is.
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