volatilegx
msg:3421954 | 4:17 pm on Aug 14, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Personally I think you're better off with a redirect you control. You could build in tracking pretty easily. Stay away from third parties if possible :)
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Alvaro
msg:3428674 | 9:05 am on Aug 22, 2007 (gmt 0) |
If I understood you well you dont want to have this type of links: http://www.example.com/?affID=12345678 Is this right? If this is the point I recommend you to build one of this two systems: 1.- Make the link look like this: affID.example.com -> 12345678.example.com And make a subdomain catch-all DNS entry, in the handler script get the HTTP_HOST and extract affID, then 302 redirect to www.example.com using PHP header('Location: www.example.com'); 2.- Make the link look like this: http://www.example.com/12345678.html And make an .htaccess file to Rewrite internally to some handler script (handler.php?affID=12345678) that 302 redirects to main site. This are just two ideas I just came with, if someone sees some PROs/CONs regarding SEO (redirecting issues, etc...) please discuss here so we can come with a good affID URL system. Alvaro
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calicochris
msg:3434520 | 4:16 pm on Aug 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
If I understood you well you dont want to have this type of links:
http://www.example.com/?affID=12345678
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Yes, you have it right. I'll have a closer look at your suggestions. Thank-you. It would be nice to have an 'easy to follow affiliate link cloaker' method of some kind.
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Alvaro
msg:3434887 | 10:14 pm on Aug 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Post here what you want exactly to do and I will try to suggest the best setup, so we can all find the best and easiest way to do this.
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calicochris
msg:3436060 | 12:03 am on Aug 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I'm looking for the simplest way to hide my affiliate account numbers in the various affiliate links. Not for users, but for search engines, scrapers and bots. The users know that they're going to be redirected from the copy on the page. This is the first site that I am building with affiliate links and I am a newby in this field. It just feels wrong to me to have a link with an affiliate account number easily accessible. I can do this with
- a php script and redirect the affiliate page and make the directory with affiliate pages not crawlable by search engines?
The problem is that I have a stacks of affiliate links and this is time consuming and management intensive. Or - with 3rd party service - I prefer not to do it this way. What is an easy way, that is not going to get the search engines all in an uproar and will hide those links?
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Alvaro
msg:3436265 | 6:42 am on Aug 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
So you are an affiliate, or the business owner who gives to affiliates aff. links?
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Marcia
msg:3436280 | 7:00 am on Aug 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
There are a number of very good reasons to "cloak" or redirect affiliate links on affiliate sites, not the least of which is not letting some merchants dupe affiliates into unwittingly passing link juice to them. It isn't "cloaking" in the usual sense of the word, and just about every single big affiliate catalog or coupon site uses link redirection (link cloaking). Just keep the page that's being used to traverse the link from being crawled and indexed.
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calicochris
msg:3437073 | 10:19 pm on Aug 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Thank-you Marcia for the words 'link redirection'. It gave me the mental breakthrough that I needed.
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