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tykoon
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 Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject: Links |
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I really like the way the outgoing links from this site are constructed. Not just because they hide the affiliate details but because they look much neater then a huge long link.
Can anyone tell me how they are constructed?
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AllanGardyne
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Yes, I use .htaccess redirects.
Here's an article I wrote a while ago explaining why I use them...
"Why .htaccess redirects are better than meta refreshes"
http://www.associateprograms.com/search/newsletter205.shtml#a6
The article includes includes links for more info.
Reading that will help understand the background, and the links
describe in detail how to use .htaccess redirects.
Basically, you upload one plain text file into the ROOT directory
and place all your affiliates links in that one file, with the redirect names
you've chosen for each one.
To start with, name the file
htacess.txt
Upload it to the root directory.
Then RENAME it .htaccess
(with a dot in front of the name and no suffix)
Part of my .htaccess file looks like this...
Redirect /buildit http://makemy.sitesell.com/buildit
Redirect /cb http://zzz.clickbank.net/r/?assoc
Redirect /cheaphost http://www.newwebsite.com/cheaphost
Redirect /chuck http://www.affiliatemistakes.com/c.pl/assoc
.... so in the newsletter and on the web site I can use the simple
short link http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/buildit
and that will redirect automatically to the affiliate link:
http://makemy.sitesell.com/buildit
The really useful thing about this system is that if the merchant
changes the affiliate links and you have dozens of the links strewn
all over your site, you have to make only ONE quick change to the
htaccess file, and Hey Presto! you've changed every affiliate link.
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dcristo
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for that bit of info Allan I had been wanting to know how to shorten affiliate links for a while! |
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tykoon
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, thanks very much Alan. Great information.
tykoon 
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john2698
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | Yes, I use .htaccess redirects.
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Don't you find that it takes alot of time to do this for every single program that you have listed.
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Glennys
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Don't you find that it takes alot of time to do this for every single program that you have listed. |
I use .htaccess redirects as well, and the beauty of using them is that they save time if the merchant makes changes. Instead of having to change several links throughout the site, I just have to make one change in the .htaccess file.
It might take a while to set the system up if you've got several hundred affiliate links throughout your site but once it's up and running you it's only a matter of minutes to add a new link to the file whenever you add a new merchant.
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Eugen
Joined: 27 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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If you want the affiliate link to be shown in the status bar, you can try this:
<a href="http://www.mechantsite.com\product.htm" onMouseOver="window.status=?Write here what you want to appear in the status bar'; return true">Buy Product here</a>
The blue text is the url of the page with the product
The green text is the attribute that makes the URL not visible in the status bar.
The red text is the actual text that you click on the page.
This thing works, but I don?t know what Search Engines think about it. There shouldn?t be any problem. It is a simple piece of html that is not designed to trick google.
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