Work

03 Apr 2007

Evilliate links

Posted in Work | 3 Comments

Get it? Evil-liate links (affil-liate) :sad:

it took me about 30 mins to re-shuffle my affiliate links and get them looking like this:

Pretty cool, eh? There are a few more, but they are the main ones i’ve used so far in posts. So to the untrained eye, all of those links don’t look like affiliate links. Plus, they are easy for me to remember (as i created them) and they cancel out any risk of being thumped by Google for over-affiliating/spamming.

So if you haven’t used this evil strategy for affiliate links, do it. I can’t think of any negative effects it could possibly have.

For those of you too lazy to compose your own re-direct file, here’s the code i used… just add your own affiliate url and rename the file to whatever you want.

<html>
<head>
<title>Text Link Ads</title>
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”>
<script>window.location=”http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=50174″;</script>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1; url=http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=50174″>
</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://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=50174″>click here</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>?

  • http://cormacmoylan.com/blog/wordpress-blogs/webmaster-events-in-dublin-for-april.eire Cormac Moylan

    You should add some urchin code to each one of your outbound affiliate links in order to track clicks. I don’t see much point in doing what you’re doing anyway, I doubt it would increase the click rate.

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  • http://www.davesblogidge.com Dave

    I personally think that if you say that your linking to a website and a visitor hovers over it and notices that its linking to a php file instead of, say, textlinkads, people could think that there was something fishy and may not return here.