Dear all,

I'm having a big issue and hope someone can help me. It would be soooo great

I'm was using a WP plugin that did the following :
- On a page loading, get the content from Amazon API for a query (example : "sony HTDV 32'" and create the display
- Create a "Add to cart" button and "Order" button
The buttons where all using an AJAX script to link to Amazon, so I guess Big G spiders couldn't know I was sending people to Amazon.

I was ranking N°2 on big G with this script.

Unfortunatly the script was buggy so I was loosing commissions. So I made a quick fix by directly creating a button linking to amazon. So now the "Order" button is linking like this :

Code:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/ASINNUMBER?tag=associateid-20

it's been only 4 days and my ranking is slowly really going down (i'm 14th this morning)

Is it because my links are now clearly easy to spot for the spiders ?

How could I solve this ?
Do you think a simple "hidereferer" or similar script would solve this ? But if I hide the referer, I guess Amazon is likely to ban me ?

Thanks for any idea on how to solve this, it would be GREAT.

Cheers,

Hi, me again,

I found this on the net, do you think it's enough to solve my problem ?

Code:

http://www.wahguide.com/2008/11/technical/how-to-cloak-affiliate-links-using-htaccess/

Basically it's only an htaccess redirect to amazon.

It seems to work but I don't know if it should solve my problem with Big G

Google will spider the .htaccess redirect and treat your link in almost exactly the same manner. Google also parses some javascript links as well these days.

He djprog,

I have some experience with the Amazon API, if you could tell me where to find the plugin maybe I can fix it. I can't promise of course, but I'll give it a try.