Redirect Sharingzone Affiliate Links

[duality99]

Sharingzone have this type of affiliate links : xxx.sharingzone.net and this make selling a bit harder because users see this types of links almost everywhere.
So let's make them a little more credible in a simple way.
Open .htaccess and add this line

redirect /dl/ http://xxx.sharingzone.net/?q2=

where xxx is your username

Then replace in your theme http://xxx.sharingzone.net/?q2= with http://yoursite.com/dl/

Now you affiliate links will look like this

http://yoursite.com/dl/Adobe+Photoshop+CS5


More credibile and may boost your sales.

duality99 Reviewed by duality99 on 2nd Apr 2011. Redirect Sharingzone Affiliate Links Sharingzone have this type of affiliate links : xxx.sharingzone.net and this make selling a bit harder because users see this types of links almost everywhere. So let's make them a little more credible in a simple way. Open .htaccess and add this line redirect /dl/ http://xxx.sharingzone.net/?q2=where xxx is your username Then replace in your theme http://xxx.sharingzone.net/?q2= with http://yoursite.com/dl/ Now you affiliate links will look like this Rating: 5

[sanis]

I offer to hide all affiliate links like that whatever you use (convertclub, revshared, datacash, friendlyduck), because some ad blockers blocks affiliate text links and you loose potential visitors.

[duality99]

I offer to hide all affiliate links like that whatever you use (convertclub, revshared, datacash, friendlyduck), because some ad blockers blocks affiliate text links and you loose potential visitors.

You can change in htaccess and theme sharingzone link with any other affiliate and will work.

[sanis]

It's just an offer, not looking for help. LOL.

[Mr Happy]

I do it a completely different way.

I have all adverts go to some file like direct-download.php or something like that.

In that file then I control everything.

Each advert on the site you click on will have an id. For example header is h1 or h2 and an advert in the footer is f1 or f2. An advert in the sidebar is s1 s2 s3 or in a topic is t1 t2 t3 etc.

eg direct-download.php?id=t3&q=Adobe-Photoshop-CS3

would be the third link in a topic in the example given above by duality99

Then in the direct-download.php file or whatever you've called it it checks the location of the referring advert which has being clicked and knows where to send to them to. Before redirecting them it records the click to the Database. This way you get a instant database with the total number of clicks for each advert position. This is really useful as you know exactly who is clicking adverts at what time, how often and which ones they are clicking. If their is one now preforming well or not converting well you know instantly and can either adjust your layout or advert to try and improve revenue.

I'll tell you where this is really useful. Let's say you have an advert in the footer and the header and they both are going to the one site or location. As each advert has a specific ID you know exactly which people are clicking. You can also detect search engines and send someplace else if you want.

Or in the above example you may notice that High Speed is being clicked more than Full Version so you know that you could probably change the Full Version text to something else to try and improve click through.

Bit more work but well worth it. The other really cool thing about it (yes another advantage) is to update any advert on the whole site all you have to do is modify that one file which controls all the adverts. Addblocker doesn't recognize or block the adverts either as they look like internal links. All very simple stuff but very effective.

[duality99]

It's just an offer, not looking for help. LOL.

Why you offer something that is free? I suppose you want to help them do this for money.

[sanis]

Did you read my message? Seems no. If you see I offered to hide all affiliate links in that way that you wrote.

Btw, Happy, nice ideas you got there, I will implement this on my sites.