Real newbie sounding question but here it goes.
Redoing a bunch of sites I haven't even looked at in 5 or more years as I have been so tied up with other projects.
I have been replacing hundreds of broken links and about to cull out all the bullshit affiliate programs and load in new or expand on those that work.
To make maintenance easy, urls short and for a host of other reasons I would like my .htaccess file to be my management area.
For example if my affiliate link from paysite1 is
http://paysite1.com?a=464646&s=31&r=1&p=1 I want to send it to the url
http://MyWebSite.com/ps345 and have .htaccess redirect that page to
http://paysite1.com?a=464646&s=31&r=1&p=1
Will my tracking get lost by my sponsors or CCbill etc? Is there any downside to doing this.
Never though of this before and it seems like such a simple way to manage affiliate sites - especially when you have a few and can make redirects on 10 or more sites work the same way with a cut and past of you entire link library.
...thoughts?