Comments on: Using PHP to Redirect Affiliate Links

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:47:29 +0000

If you use a php redirect and then below the redirect include the tracking pixel will it still work?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:22:30 +0000

@Sara

Word around the campfire is that this is actually a much better method than having your site direct link to the affiliate offer using your “affid=23423234″ blablabla link. I think the Googlebot frowns upon those links much more than these php redirect links.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:18:17 +0000

Do search engines, especially googlebot find such redirects and restricting sites because of it?

thanks

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:37:28 +0000

This is awesome – I’ve been trying to figure out how to do just this for weeks now; thanks so much!

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By: John

John — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:14:30 +0000

As said, not a safe way to redirect. Php header is not changing the refering headers so they can see where your visitor was before they were redirected. So if you are sending some shady traffic or just don’t trust your affiliate manager, use meta refresh.

By: Vad

Vad — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:06:44 +0000

Hi Derek,
thanks for the advise!
The question is what URL should be on the aff product when I use this method explained above?
http://www.mysite/redirection-folder/file-where-php-code-with-the-aff-URL
That is the URL should I use?
Thanks,
Vad

By: Muneeb

Muneeb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:14:48 +0000

That was really informative, i was looking for the same thing for weeks now, i thought i would have to go for some lessons to do that but its damn Easy hehehe

Thanks for the great help !

Cheers

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:29:22 +0000

This is a debate I’ve heard forever, well for teh last 2 years that I’ve been in affiliate marketing, and whether or not it actually does I couldn’t tell you.

What I can tell you however, is that I’ve been using these methods for redirecting for the last two years and it has worked fine for me. I’ve never had a problem with networks competing with me or stealing my keywords.

My advice…don’t work with shady networks and you don’t have a problem.

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