Comments on: A few entertaining and useful links this Halloween

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:22:10 +0000

Blogger interview and the update to Google Reader is interesting – thanks for the links, I’m hopping over to them now.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:31:53 +0000

Thanks for the link to your Affiliate plugin Al, I’ll give it a try. I’ve been researching this recently and there’s a lot of plugins out there, many of which charge a fee. It’s hard to know which one to pick!

Cheers, Jon

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:59:36 +0000

Al,

I totally understand why people hide their affiliate links but I’m wondering if long term, using a wordpress plugin is the best way?

The reason I say this is because we’ve seen where developers stop support of a plugin and should that happen with whatever affiliate plugin you use, there is a potential with large sites that you would have to go back and recode those affiliate links with either another plugin or find some alternative means.

I’ve read some sites suggesting not to use plugins but rather creating redirect files, one for each affiliate link and point your link to this redirect file.

Just wondering what your thoughts on this would be.

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By: Al

Al — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:45:36 +0000

@Justin, I did block the file in robots.txt but it didn’t seem to make much difference whether G sees them or not, I am adding quality content and not just the affiliate link

@Jeff Yeah the 2 box approach is certainly not the best way of doing it, was just the quickest (and dirtiest) to write like that. I am doing a more in depth version for myself so will look at changing that.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:43:33 +0000

I completed Dog Fight today, there were a fair few tricky levels, good luck.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:36:50 +0000

I like your affiliate link tool best because it shows the target link to the user instead of masking it blindly like http://mysite.com/goto/productname.

The only thing I dislike about your tool is that after adding a few links, it becomes hard to go back to match up the links between the two boxes in the control panel, especially when the affiliate links take up 2 lines.

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By: Justin Cook

Justin Cook — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:35:25 +0000

Regarding the affiliate links – besides trying to make them more visitor friendly, have you found it necessary to use any sort of masking (such as tinyurl), so that Google doesn’t ignore them?

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:43:22 +0000

Hurrah finally completed Light Bot, took a while…great game!

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:42 +0000

I think I may need to hold you personally responsible for a lost weekend as dogfight is taking up all my time!