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There are no stupid questions...except...

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?

You can do it with htaccess / you can do it with php - it won't fuck up the affiliate link as long as you are accurate with putting it into the redirect.

it might be easier to use the TALS script. http://www.bigdotmedia.com/tals.php

With this you can use it to redirect urls. So you can make that affiliate link look like www.domain.com/whateveryouwant

Another benefit of this is that if you want to change those links again in the future you only have to change one link in the script, not hundreds on your sites.

Or you could create a folder "paysite1" in your root.
Place a index.php with the following content :

Code:

<?php 

header( 'Location: http://paysite.com/' ) ; 

?>

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inter-Sex (Post 18556405)

Or you could create a folder "paysite1" in your root.
Place a index.php with the following content :

Code:

<?php 

header( 'Location: http://paysite.com/' ) ; 

?>

More work then managing 1 list.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kane (Post 18556403)

...all can be done with the .htaccess. Drop sponsor 1 switch all by changing the link in .htaccess to sponsor 3.

One thing I have learned long ago: KISS (keep it simple stupid)

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Originally Posted by suesheboy (Post 18556409)

More work then managing 1 list.

Oh yeah fuck, please forgive me my post !:1orglaugh

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inter-Sex (Post 18556416)

Oh yeah fuck, please forgive me my post !:1orglaugh

I still like the ideas thrown at me. Who knows what that will rattle around in my head

You can do it that way. You can make more money by sending the traffic through some sort of track_and_compare.cgi, which will analyze click ratios, etc. What kind of optimization regime are you currently using?