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.
