Comments on: Text Link Ads Adjust Affiliate Links: Give Me My Affiliate Link!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:31:56 +0000

I think they are still working.. I’ll check again in a few days. Unless TLA is has a mechanism in place to administer and rotate thier affiliate ids and sync up new tinyurls each time I don’t believe your affiliate id will change. If anything, I think they are doing it for SEO reasons. They could be taking a hit or it is possible sites with obvious affiliate links are taking a hit.

By: Patches and Hacks

Patches and Hacks — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:59:33 +0000

I have written a plugin for wordpress that will let you manage such affiliate links by hiding them with a redirect. My plugin let’s you define such affiliate links in a nice web interface inside wordpress admin.
Here’s a link to it if you’re interested:
http://patchlog.com/wordpress/hidden-affiliate-links/
The plugin is relesed under GPL so everybody is free to use modify or distribute it.

By: kucau

kucau — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:18:24 +0000

i think its just a way to game google. recently my blog PR was demoted due to paid post and possibly many affiliate link. by changing to tinyurl, i think text link will mask affiliate link.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:10:30 +0000

> sam
I do not think its for affiliate cloaking purposes – as I cloak my own affiliate links, it may have something to do with google and paid links – still uncertain, but I will definitely try to find out

By: sam sanders

sam sanders — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:18:17 +0000

Maybe it’s so affiliate links will work in emails – sometimes long links can get broken in emails with funny word-wrap. Also maybe they figure people will be more likely to click on it if it’s not an obvious affiliate link?