Comments on: Hide Affiliate Links With WordPress Redirection Plugin

By: ProMovieBlogger

ProMovieBlogger — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:54:10 +0000

Harsh is right. Gocodes does the same job but its far easier.

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:03:16 +0000

Kuzzuk more easier way to hide affiliate link will be Gocodes wordpress plugin. Give it a try and you will thank me later

By: Kuzzuk

Kuzzuk — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:15:49 +0000

Bill > If you are using ClickBank (which I do) then their analytics is quite advanced now which includes a tracking code. I usually have different tracking codes so I can monitor the source of the purchase. After that ClickBank gives you the details of the buyer. Normally, I’ll send the buyer a surprise gift

By: Bill Stilwell

Bill Stilwell — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:44:26 +0000

Kuzzuk: As an affiliate, do you know if there is a way to track who has purchased a product or service using a link on the affiliates website?

By: Kuzzuk

Kuzzuk — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:11:24 +0000

Odessa > Thanks for your comment. What the nofollow does is still vague so for the sake of simplicity, I put in that search engines do not follow the page. You are absolutely right in saying that the robots meta tag set to “noindex” is more appropriate. Usually, I use a plugin to do that but I’ve not installed it yet on this blog. Thanks for your feedback!

By: Odessa

Odessa — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:29:08 +0000

“Now place this masked URL in any of your blog posts and the reader will be directed accordingly. I normally do one more step when I’m linking using masked URLs, I add the rel=”nofollow” tag which means that search engines do not follow this link while indexing my site. This is an often ignored but important step.”

This is acutally not correct. “nofollow” attribute doesn’t mean, search engine don’t follow it, it only means, the link won’t be taken into account for link popularity.

If you indeed want to prevent that page form being indexed, you have to either set a “noindex” robots meta tag (won’t work if you’re redirecting via header(“Location: …”); function of PHP) or to include that file or folder in the robots.txt and prevent it from being indexed.

Next time better to your SEO homework first