Hi all,
I just have some thoughts about longterm whitehat affiliate links strategy. There seem to be so many ways to cloak, hide and track your affiliatelinks and I don't really understand why.
My strategy is that I simply create a subfolder on my website that I exclude in robots.txt. After that i just create one .php file per affiliate product in that directory and link to them. They simply consist of the usual: <?php header("Location: http://affiliatelink.com"); ?>. Then I use the statpress plugin to wordpress for tracking.
I also use some similar php jumpscripts, but i dont really find them easier to maintain. Is there any flaw to this strategy? Can my affiliatelinks be hijacked? Can some types of affiliatelinks get a problem when redirected like this?
Next question is what search engines think about this? I guess if a site is manually investigated they might not like it since it looks like the link point to your site but then redirects them. Is there a better strategy?
Last question is something ive been considering lately. Is it better to open affiliate links in new page or same page. I have mostly used the same page since I have noticed some adblockers stop it if it opens in a new page. Now it suddenly struck me that opening in a new page could be good since you keep the visitor on your page a bit longer and some of the search engines might count the time each visitors stays on your site?
Well sorry for long post, hope some of you have the energy to read it through and give me some input.
BR.
Steffo
I just have some thoughts about longterm whitehat affiliate links strategy. There seem to be so many ways to cloak, hide and track your affiliatelinks and I don't really understand why.
My strategy is that I simply create a subfolder on my website that I exclude in robots.txt. After that i just create one .php file per affiliate product in that directory and link to them. They simply consist of the usual: <?php header("Location: http://affiliatelink.com"); ?>. Then I use the statpress plugin to wordpress for tracking.
I also use some similar php jumpscripts, but i dont really find them easier to maintain. Is there any flaw to this strategy? Can my affiliatelinks be hijacked? Can some types of affiliatelinks get a problem when redirected like this?
Next question is what search engines think about this? I guess if a site is manually investigated they might not like it since it looks like the link point to your site but then redirects them. Is there a better strategy?
Last question is something ive been considering lately. Is it better to open affiliate links in new page or same page. I have mostly used the same page since I have noticed some adblockers stop it if it opens in a new page. Now it suddenly struck me that opening in a new page could be good since you keep the visitor on your page a bit longer and some of the search engines might count the time each visitors stays on your site?
Well sorry for long post, hope some of you have the energy to read it through and give me some input.
BR.
Steffo