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Affiliate Help

by Max Stryker
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Hey guys,
I'm running my own product/site on Wordpress and I had some questions.

I wanted to know how to effectively hide download pages from Search engines.

And, is there a plugin or code to modify in order to redirect affiliate links to the main URL. (http://mysite.com/?hop=xxx to http://mysite.com and keeping affiliate commisions)

You'll help me a lot if you tell me how. =)
#affiliate
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    Originally Posted by Max Stryker View Post

    I wanted to know how to effectively hide download pages from Search engines.
    Put your download page into a subfolder (yoursite.com/subfolder/download.html), then create a robots.txt with the following command:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /subfolder

    The problem with this is that everyone could just go to yoursite.com/robots.txt and see the folder that way, but at least it won't be indexed. To get around the problem of people getting access to your subfolder via the robots.txt, you could upload an empty .html document and name it index.html. That way, everyone going to yoursite.com/subfolder will just see a blank page, not a list of available documents in that folder. And make sure your download page isn't listed in your sitemap

    To be extra safe, also include a "nofollow/noindex" meta tag on your download.html page.
    Originally Posted by Max Stryker View Post

    And, is there a plugin or code to modify in order to redirect affiliate links to the main URL. (http://mysite.com/?hop=xxx to http://mysite.com and keeping affiliate commisions)

    You'll help me a lot if you tell me how. =)
    The ?hop=xxx part will show on the vendors site as well, no matter what redirection or cloaking plugin you use. Instead, you could just buy a new domain, forward it to your affiliate link and activate "URL iframe" (the name changes depending on your domain registrar). That way, when people click on your link it will stay in their browser bar, not show the domain of the vendor (or your hop link).

    Hope that helps!
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