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mat · 22-05-2009, 03:46:24 PM

Really nice and clean layout, easy to navigate and does the job well!

I would try and mask all the affiliate links though or the search engines wont like it.

Search for "wordpress link masker" or something.

joned · 22-05-2009, 05:47:16 PM

Have you looked at easycontentunits.com : Home - works with all the major UK affiliate networks (and Amazon). You pick which merchants you want to use, put some keywords in to select products, tweak it a bit and then they give a snippet of code to copy abd paste into your HTML page.

I tried it briefly on Coffee (don't laugh, I know it's crap, it was just my first try with it!)

HTH

Cheers, Jon

Systreg · 22-05-2009, 05:54:43 PM

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Originally Posted by mat

I would try and mask all the affiliate links though or the search engines wont like it.

Hmmm, I had a look around for affiliate link cloaking and found the old method where you make links like this example below:

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<a href="http://www.merchantsite.com/app/aftrack.php?afid=12345" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.merchantsite.abcd.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;">Product Name Here</a>

I edited a page on my website and changed 1 link using that linking code, but it was still showing the affiliate link when hovering over it, maybe that only works on browsers like IE, I'm using Opera

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@ Joned, no, I hadn't seen that Easy Contents site before, saved it to my faves as it might come in handy some time, cheers.

retired_member4 · 22-05-2009, 05:59:10 PM

Use .htaccess for link masking if you have modrewrite enabled on your hosting.

Systreg · 22-05-2009, 06:28:15 PM

@ FagEnd, too technical for me mate and they don't have stuff like that on my host.

Systreg · 12-06-2009, 08:39:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Systreg

I also used the 123-reg non framed web forwarding to redirect mountainbikeframes / co / uk and carbonbikes / co / uk to the main site, maybe I should really have those as single sites of their own, but I can't be bothered doing those 2 at the moment.

Just an update, rather than carry on redirecting the other 2 domains towards the mountainbikeframe / co / uk domain, I decided it was best to put some time in to making a small seperate site for the carbon bikes domain, and I left the mountain bike frames domain as it was until I put it back on myaffsite a few days ago. I had been having a terrible time with my domains not showing up on serps, for example, this from my post in another part of the forum:

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I had the following domains as stores on myaffsite:

carbonbikes / co / uk
mountainbikeframe / co / uk
mountainbikeframes / co / uk

Initially, after registering those 3 domains, I put myaffsite stores on them and they were on page 1 of Google serps for a while, the traffic and sales were good, then gradually, they slipped further and further down serps and the sales dried up completely.

Doing a Google search for the exact term "carbon bikes" recently, I had to go all the way down to page 67 of serps for it to show up for that term, searching for "mountain bike frame" showed it somewhere around page 40, the best one of the 3 was "mountain bike frames", which is currently showing up on page 14 for the singular term "mountainbikeframe" domain, it was page 19 of serps before I put my own store on it, so it has improved slightly.

I've been checking Google regularly to see how the serps for the url's of my 2 stores are doing, they were showing up better as time went on, and for various other bike related terms, then today, Google must have done one of their mass updates, because the carbon bikes domain is right up to position number 3 on page 1 of Google UK, and the mountain bike frame domain has gone up to page 2 of Google results

When making my stores, I used some h1/h3 tags as suggested on Acorn, but for the first time ever, I used title tags and alt tags for images and links, and I actually made a sitemap page on the sites, and uploaded a sitemap.txt url to my Google account, these all seem to have been positive things to do with getting a good ranking, all in all, a worthwhile thing to do, I just need the public to start buying some bikes and frames again now

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wtf, 2 days later it vanished from page 1 of Google results, and now it's on page 8, Google is so frustrating, how does that happen

Systreg · 17-06-2009, 08:20:47 PM

Got my first 2 sales today since making my own stores, it was either from the mountain bike frame site or the carbon bikes site, I must get round to editing all the site pages to add a click ref to all the aff urls, I didn't know about that when I initially made the sites, anyway, �1,321.71 in bike sales today for �25.62 commission (pending) from Wiggle

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I just found that by clicking on the commission amount, it takes me to another page where it actually gives the referring url from where the goods were purchased, and the 2 sales were both from the carbon bikes site for �309.96 + �1,011.75, which is handy as now I wont have to edit all the site pages to add click refs.

dashu1 · 19-06-2009, 10:56:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Systreg

wtf, 2 days later it vanished from page 1 of Google results, and now it's on page 8, Google is so frustrating, how does that happen

Thats known as the Google dance - don't worry it'll come back again......probably

Systreg · 19-06-2009, 11:12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by dashu1

Thats known as the Google dance

You ain't kidding, my "mountain bike frame" domain did the same, page 1, vanished again, then back at result 7 or 8 on page 1 for a few days until yesterday, now it's vanished again, no continuity on Google a lot of the time, weird.

davedevelopment · 19-06-2009, 11:16:37 AM

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Originally Posted by dashu1

Fair points, & I think you're right, you'd need to install 100 versions of wordpress.

I use Wordpress MU for all my minisites (15 so far).

22-05-2009, 03:46:24 PM	#41 (permalink)
mat Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hampshire Posts: 3,311 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 39)	Really nice and clean layout, easy to navigate and does the job well! I would try and mask all the affiliate links though or the search engines wont like it. Search for "wordpress link masker" or something. __________________ Mathew.co.uk - Follow me on Twitter here

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joned Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 152 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (0% / 0)	Have you looked at easycontentunits.com : Home - works with all the major UK affiliate networks (and Amazon). You pick which merchants you want to use, put some keywords in to select products, tweak it a bit and then they give a snippet of code to copy abd paste into your HTML page. I tried it briefly on Coffee (don't laugh, I know it's crap, it was just my first try with it!) HTH Cheers, Jon __________________ Compare Cameras - Snooker Cue - Loans - Phones - Credit Card - Credit Card Applications - SIPP pensions - Debt Consolidation - Poker - Forex - Domain Names - Bingo! - Diet Pills

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Systreg Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: County Cork Republic of Ireland Posts: 3,906 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 104)	Got my first 2 sales today since making my own stores, it was either from the mountain bike frame site or the carbon bikes site, I must get round to editing all the site pages to add a click ref to all the aff urls, I didn't know about that when I initially made the sites, anyway, �1,321.71 in bike sales today for �25.62 commission (pending) from Wiggle [edit] I just found that by clicking on the commission amount, it takes me to another page where it actually gives the referring url from where the goods were purchased, and the 2 sales were both from the carbon bikes site for �309.96 + �1,011.75, which is handy as now I wont have to edit all the site pages to add click refs. Last edited by Systreg; 17-06-2009 at 09:17:36 PM.

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