Javascript for affiliate links

Anyone doing this?

[mayor]

I'm looking at the possibility of using external Javascript files for my links to affiliate merchants (some are direct affiliate programs and some are via networks like BeFree and CJ).

As I see it by using external Javascript files, if I change affiliate merchants I only have to make the change in one place.

I've never used external Javascript before so any advice on using it for affilate merchant links will be greatly appreciated.

Will it work, and will it cause problems with the search engines?

[jeremy goodrich]

If it's a javascript thing, it seems to me, unless the spider was parsing the javascript, they wouldn't get those links.

That could be good or bad, depending on your perspective. I don't know that cj links would get you anything in terms of link pop, so it might be a good way to go as far as an easy way to manage the links.

You might also try using SSI or a php include...or you can run the pages through a template software, which is pretty easy in perl, and then just recreate the pages after you change the links. :)

Hope that those ideas help.

[cyril kearney]

Couldn't the same thing be accomplished by Server Side Includes?