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kadav83
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 8:11 pm
Post subject: Can I do a .htaccess with linkshare affiliate links?
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hello all,
Does anyone use a .htaccess for their linkshare links or amazon links?
I would like to do this to my links....
tia!
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edburdo
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 8:48 pm
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You can use .htaccess for just about any kind of redirect link you want. Just be sure you do a default redirect (a 302 or Temporary) redirect. Don't use 301 (Permanent) redirect for your affiliate links. If you do, the search spiders will think your site permanently moved to that new location, and will remove you from the results.
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kadav83
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:37 pm
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Thanks!
I am having a tuff time doing one with a linkshare link for some reason...
With a linkshare link there are 3 parts to it.. do I need to use all three or can i delete the 2nd and third line?
TIA!
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edburdo
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 2:01 pm
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Where it gets tricky is when the company uses a tracking image in the link. You can't do those with .htaccess.
You can just use the URL link (ignore the image links) and that will credit you with the sale, but your tracking stats in LinkShare may not be accurate.
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robertb
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:19 pm
Post subject: Re: .htaccess redirects
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| kadav83 wrote: |
With a linkshare link there are 3 parts to it.. do I need to use all three or can i delete the 2nd and third line?
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That's pretty vague! Why don't you provide an example?
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mike929
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 3:09 am
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| edburdo wrote: | | Just be sure you do a default redirect (a 302 or Temporary) redirect. Don't use 301 (Permanent) redirect for your affiliate links. If you do, the search spiders will think your site permanently moved to that new location, and will remove you from the results. |
Can you please clarify this a bit. I want to make sure I am doing this correctly. Here is the way I set mine up:
Say my content page is about refinancing your home, and I add an affiliate link to a lender. I create a page called refinance.html and then add the following line to my .htaccess file
Redirect /refinance.html http://merchant-site.com
This will then redirect anyone who clicks on my 'refinance' link to the merchant website.
Am I doing this correctly?
thanks!
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edburdo
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:30 pm
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Yes. Since you didn't specify it as a permanent redirect (a 301) is defaults to a temporary redirect (a 302). And a temporary redirect is what you want.
Looks good... If you want a comment in your .htaccess file, prefix the line with a hash (#) symbol. Like this:
#LinkShare Affiliate Links
Redirect /refinance.html http://merchant-site.com
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