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[matmat is verified member.]

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]

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

 

[SystregSystreg is verified member.]

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:

<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]

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

 

[SystregSystreg is verified member.]

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

 

[SystregSystreg is verified member.]

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:

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 :lol:

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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

 

[SystregSystreg is verified member.]

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]

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

 

[SystregSystreg is verified member.]

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]

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).

 

[dashu1]

It's just while it settles down & "beds in" your results. Remember that Googles results don't just come from 1 index, they switch between a variety of data centres which do not all contain the same data, so if 1 data centre has already had you on page 1 then it's a good indication that this is where you'll end up.

Having said that one of my sites did the same thing - page 1 disappeared, page 1 disappeared - & it hasn't come back for the last 2 months

 

[SystregSystreg is verified member.]

@ Dashu, these data centres, are they like one for each country, as in google.co.uk .com, .es, .it etc, and they corrolate the information from each to give an overall page ranking?

I thought with it being a .co.uk domain that it would only matter what UK Google data said. Anyway, it has bounced back up to result 3 on page 1 of Google UK for the term "carbon bikes" again, lets see how long it stays there this time

 

[dashu1]

No I think they have multiple datacentres per country, so depending on how old the data is depends on where you are in the results.

I guess they do it this way to test out algorithm changes etc.