Comments on: Automatically Increased Affiliate Revenue by 15% http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/ Sharing lessons learned in business and online marketing Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:57:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Matt http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-9264 Matt Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:27:28 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-9264 This is a simple but excellent plugin that will save me so much time. I have set up many of the regular commercial sites that I blog about but struggled with deep links on one site that are in the following format : http://www.prezzybox.com/products/index.aspx?pid=4559 I assumed I would be able to set this up as an encoded target like below : http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=164&awinaffid=1234&p=%ENCODED_TARGET% This does not work however. How do I handle deeplinks with url parameters ? Cheers Matt's last blog post..<a href="http://www.weddingo.co.uk/2008/07/06/white-superga-wedding-trainers/">White Superga Wedding Trainers</a> This is a simple but excellent plugin that will save me so much time. I have set up many of the regular commercial sites that I blog about but struggled with deep links on one site that are in the following format :

http://www.prezzybox.com/products/index.aspx?pid=4559

I assumed I would be able to set this up as an encoded target like below :

http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=164&awinaffid=1234&p=%ENCODED_TARGET%

This does not work however. How do I handle deeplinks with url parameters ?

Cheers

Matt’s last blog post..White Superga Wedding Trainers

]]> By: Vin Andella http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-9206 Vin Andella Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:36:51 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-9206 This is a great time saver and I love the cloaking frature. This is a great time saver and I love the cloaking frature.

]]> By: Heather http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-7865 Heather Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:19:54 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-7865 I tried installing and setting up the plugin at http://www.finsandgills.com I was unable to get the affiliate links to cloak. This site is using a database fed dynamic php script. The product url's go to http://www.aquariumsdirect.com/.....(long line of product id info and affiliate id). Can you please help me with this. Just let me know what info you need to explain the problem or what is keeping it from working. Thanks very much. I tried installing and setting up the plugin at http://www.finsandgills.com

I was unable to get the affiliate links to cloak.

This site is using a database fed dynamic php script.

The product url’s go to http://www.aquariumsdirect.com/…..(long line of product id info and affiliate id).

Can you please help me with this. Just let me know what info you need to explain the problem or what is keeping it from working.

Thanks very much.

]]> By: links for 2008-01-16 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-6415 links for 2008-01-16 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:29:40 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-6415 [...] Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Automatically Increased Affiliate Revenue by 15% ’ve now taken this a stage further and have created a Word Press plug-in to make it easy to add new affiliates as I find them. The plug-in searches for the domain of merchants that I have an affiliate program with adjusts it accordingly. (tags: web shopping affiliate adverts amazon) [...] [...] Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Automatically Increased Affiliate Revenue by 15% ’ve now taken this a stage further and have created a Word Press plug-in to make it easy to add new affiliates as I find them. The plug-in searches for the domain of merchants that I have an affiliate program with adjusts it accordingly. (tags: web shopping affiliate adverts amazon) [...]

]]> By: Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Income Breakdown for December 2007 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-6230 Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Income Breakdown for December 2007 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:19:36 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-6230 [...] crazily getting a fair amount of traffic for the daft tattoo sleeves, so I joined the program and automatically convert their links to affiliate ones which for the sake of 10 minutes work was certainly worth [...] [...] crazily getting a fair amount of traffic for the daft tattoo sleeves, so I joined the program and automatically convert their links to affiliate ones which for the sake of 10 minutes work was certainly worth [...]

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3649 Al Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:59:58 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3649 Hi Tom, If you want to convert URL xxxxx into URL yyyyy you are right that you do not need to use the %target% or %encoded_target% param. You only need to use this if the source URL is contained in the target URL. With Amazon you will need to use the %encoded_target%, so in the start with box have: http://www.amazon.com/ Replace with: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=%encoded_target%&tag=coolegadge-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 Where the tag is your affiliate ID. Hi Tom,

If you want to convert URL xxxxx into URL yyyyy you are right that you do not need to use the %target% or %encoded_target% param. You only need to use this if the source URL is contained in the target URL.

With Amazon you will need to use the %encoded_target%, so in the start with box have:
http://www.amazon.com/
Replace with:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=%encoded_target%&tag=coolegadge-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
Where the tag is your affiliate ID.

]]> By: tom http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3640 tom Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:41:52 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3640 I am a tiny bit confused about what I need to do to get this to work.. for the following affiliate url: http://www.adwingate.com/77/www/delivery/ck.php?maxparams=2__bannerid=242__zoneid=272__cb=980ed27a11__maxdest=http://www.gftuk.com/land/french/?aid=2052 I put that in the 'replace with' box and then place http://www.gftforex.com into the 'urls that start with' box.. and thats all I have to do ? I dont understand what I need to do with %target% and %encoded_target% (they are optional?) can you explain this to me in a way a baby can understand :) also, what about amazon.com affiliate links... lets say I have one blog post where I want an amazon affiliate link to point to the dell 24 inch lcd product page and then in another blog post I write I want the affiliate url to point to a harry potter book.. I dont quite understand how I can make that work if all http://www.amazon.com urls are encoded to be replaced with just one amazon affiliate url..(in the 'replace with' box) Thanks in advance for any tips to ease my brain damage! I am a tiny bit confused about what I need to do to get this to work.. for the following affiliate url:
http://www.adwingate.com/77/www/delivery/ck.php?maxparams=2__bannerid=242__zoneid=272__cb=980ed27a11__maxdest=http://www.gftuk.com/land/french/?aid=2052

I put that in the ‘replace with’ box and then place http://www.gftforex.com into the ‘urls that start with’ box..

and thats all I have to do ? I dont understand what I need to do with %target% and %encoded_target% (they are optional?)

can you explain this to me in a way a baby can understand :)

also, what about amazon.com affiliate links… lets say I have one blog post where I want an amazon affiliate link to point to the dell 24 inch lcd product page and then in another blog post I write I want the affiliate url to point to a harry potter book.. I dont quite understand how I can make that work if all http://www.amazon.com urls are encoded to be replaced with just one amazon affiliate url..(in the ‘replace with’ box)

Thanks in advance for any tips to ease my brain damage!

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3539 Al Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:20:16 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3539 Your right Andreas that would of been a better title, I think when I wrote this post I had my coding head on so didn't really go into the stats. The 15% was a bit of a gestimate, I have seen increases but I can't guarantee all were down to the new links, seems to be worth doing though and it also makes it really easy to add new ones in the future. Your right Andreas that would of been a better title, I think when I wrote this post I had my coding head on so didn’t really go into the stats. The 15% was a bit of a gestimate, I have seen increases but I can’t guarantee all were down to the new links, seems to be worth doing though and it also makes it really easy to add new ones in the future.

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3538 Al Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:17:59 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3538 That's a good solution Carl, I did consider doing something like that but laziness took over :) That’s a good solution Carl, I did consider doing something like that but laziness took over :)

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3537 Al Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:16:42 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200709/affiliate-links-plugin/#comment-3537 It's under 24 hours old and there's already a new version. The previous one didn't cope with paramters the new one does so just upload again. It’s under 24 hours old and there’s already a new version. The previous one didn’t cope with paramters the new one does so just upload again.

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