Affiliates
Use Redirects for your affiliate links ,its the smart thing to do!
Yesterday TLA changed their entire referal link structure and to some people who werent using redirects this could not only have forced them to go back and change alot of links but it could cause lost income if they missed a link, So todays post is about redirects or more specifically php redirects, the kind i like.
How to create a php redirect
All you need to do is copy the text below, replace three current links with your affiliate link and then upload the file to your server. Now instead of linking directly to the site, link to the php file you just made.
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Link Ads</title>
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”>
<script>window.location=”http://tinyurl.com/3brydv”;</script>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1; url=http://tinyurl.com/3brydv”>
</head>
<body>
<p align=”center”>You are being taken to the correct page.
<br>If the page does load after 5 seconds,
<a href=”http://tinyurl.com/3brydv”>click here</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
More benefits to using redirects
There are many benefits to using redirects besides ease of changing your links when your affiliate has a brain fart and decides to use tinyurls. The main reason I use redirects and probally the most important is for SEO purposes. Before I used redirects everytime I placed an affiliate link it would count as an external link and that would not only hurt my pr but more importantly it would decrease my quality score in google adwords. But using redirects that use the nofollow parameter, all my affiliate links are counted as internal and I dont get a decreased quality score for having too many affiliate links on my page.
Other Techniques
If you use a different redirect technique and would like to do a guest post, please leave a comment or email me at kingjacob {at} gmail.com.
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