5 Star Affiliate Programs

Linda Buquet · #11 (**permalink**) 12-18-2006, 10:36 AM

I dont have the tech answer you want but can tell you NOT to do it in forums. You will get banned if they find out you are using an affiliate link if they catch you. DO NOT TRY IT HERE EITHER! We have eagle-eye moderators that look for that type of thing.

psp · #12 (**permalink**) 12-19-2006, 06:10 AM

By the way, the search engine are not friendly with redirecting pages, then how can we manage it?

AffiliateGuild · #13 (**permalink**) 01-01-2007, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mickcharm

Hi, tried this link cloaking in frontpage just to test but when I right clicked the mouse "Click Here" (in preview page) you could still see my affiliate ID. How can I modify this to put a link in an article or on a forum page as this is a link for a webpage.
<*A href="http://www.youraffiliate link" onMouseOver= "window.status='your text here!'; return true" onMouseOut= "window.status=''; return true"*>Click here<*/a><*BR><*BR>
(Take out all * characters from html code)

Cheers
Michael

The only thing I can think of is to disable the right click as well.

Personally, I hate it when sites do that thoguh.

wirenine.com · #14 (**permalink**) 03-23-2007, 10:48 PM

Masked url would be better in my opinion compared to redirecting.

Thank you for sharing your tips!

psp · #15 (**permalink**) 03-27-2007, 11:00 AM

Search engines doesn't like the redirected pages/sites, then how can we manage that?

Linda Buquet · #16 (**permalink**) 03-27-2007, 11:10 AM

Search engines don't like it if you re-direct YOUR PAGES.

If someone is searching for widgets and hits the link to YOUR page - then as soon as they hit your page are auto re-directed from YOUR page to a porn site that's why they don't like re-directs.

In the case of affiliate LINK re-directs it's different. Your page is not a re-direct - it's a link on your page that the user must click that re-directs.

Someone is searching for widgets and hits the link to YOUR page. They get to your page and there is no re-direct on THAT page - the page they were looking for is the page they found - its all about widgets. Then after a couple minutes they click an affiliate link on your page that re-directs to merchant. That's different. Also some say that G doesn't like affiliate links so it's best to re-direct or cloak your links so G can't follow them. You don't want G to follow your affiliate links to merchant anyway - you only care that G follows links to get to YOUR site.

When you think about it, all affiliate network links are already re-directed anyway.
hoplinks go through Clickbanks and re-direct to merchant smae with CJ, Linkshare and most of the others.

Hope that makes sense.

ALSO I'm not saying you should or should not re-direct or which method is best. It's a personal decision.

So you ALWAYS need to do your own due diligence and you ALWAYS need to test links to be sure they work and the cookie passes when you do any type of re-direct or link cloaking.

rentacar · #17 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 07:59 PM

Any drawbacks to using tinyurl? I used the wp-affiliate plugin but some links were not tracking properly so I had to change all the links manually. (major pain in the ***)

Linda Buquet · #18 (**permalink**) 08-22-2009, 09:31 AM

TinyURL looks spammy to many people because it's been overused and abused. Plus I think people hesitate to click on a blind link.

It's better to use .htaccess on your own server. Then you can make URLs that look like mysite.com/productname or mysite.com/keyword.

Also if a merchant didn't convert and you needed to switch out links, you just change it once in .htaccess and everyplace you've added that link, it will change them all automatically.