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How To Add Affililiate Links Globally To My HTML Sites?

by magentawave
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I'm trying to find software or a script that will work with my html editor (Xsitepro) that automatically adds affiliate links globally based on specific target keywords. I use one for my self-hosted Wordpress sites called NinjaAffiliate (http://www.mbpninjaaffiliate.com/) but it of course doesn't work on html sites.

For example...

Let us say I want to add an affiliate link to every occurrence that exists on my site for the keyword phrases buy tires, get tires, new tires. I would type or paste those keywords into the list for that affiliate link and hit the 'Save' button and it would automatically create affiliate links for that tire merchant for every time the keyword phrases buy tires, get tires, new tires appears. It should also have a setting where I can limit how many affiliate links I want per article too. And of course it would have to work with many different affiliate links like a tire merchant and a car accessory merchant and a car warranty merchant, etc. and it would have to be super easy to install and setup for non-techie types like myself.

Someone referred me to this one here Context Ads Pro - Turn Keywords On Your Site Into Affiliate Links On The Fly but I'd like to see what else might be out there. Plus, I was using a different script from that company once but it slowed my site way down.

Thanks.

Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Here's one way to do it. Not quite as automated as you're looking for, but it might help while you keep looking...

    I use TextPad, but any text editor that will let you open and work on several documents at once should work.

    Once you've opened up the html files as text documents (you see the source code), you can use a global search-and-replace to convert

    buy tires

    into

    HTML Code:
    <a href="[affiliate link]">buy tires</a>
    Repeat with additional terms, save all and upload the modified files.
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Duuuuh, now why didn't I think of that? :confused: Seriously, that is an excellent, simple, low tech, effective and free idea that will be much faster than creating the links in 'Design' mode. Thank you! If I can't find something even faster than that is what I will do.

      Thanks again!
      Steve


      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      Here's one way to do it. Not quite as automated as you're looking for, but it might help while you keep looking...

      I use TextPad, but any text editor that will let you open and work on several documents at once should work.

      Once you've opened up the html files as text documents (you see the source code), you can use a global search-and-replace to convert

      buy tires

      into

      HTML Code:
      <a href="[affiliate link]">buy tires</a>
      Repeat with additional terms, save all and upload the modified files.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lee Wilson
    You can also do it without having to open the files in an editor. There are plenty of file utilities that will search and replace text in all files in a directory. Here's one I use quite often to do the exact thing you are asking. It's free.

    RJL Software - Software - Utility - Simple Search-Replace - Download
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Sounds good - but would I use that utility to search for the keywords I designate within my hosts control panel? I'm wondering how it can do that in my cpanels? Do you set it up like you would set up your login stuff with an FTP program and then it searches from there?

      Steve



      Originally Posted by L Wilson View Post

      You can also do it without having to open the files in an editor. There are plenty of file utilities that will search and replace text in all files in a directory. Here's one I use quite often to do the exact thing you are asking. It's free.

      RJL Software - Software - Utility - Simple Search-Replace - Download
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      • Profile picture of the author Lee Wilson
        Originally Posted by magentawave View Post

        Sounds good - but would I use that utility to search for the keywords I designate within my hosts control panel? I'm wondering how it can do that in my cpanels? Do you set it up like you would set up your login stuff with an FTP program and then it searches from there?

        Steve
        No, it's only for local files but if you keep a local copy of your entire site, do the search and replace and then ftp the updated files with your ftp software, or from your html editor.

        I use Webuilder 2008 html editor which can do this directly through ftp but you would need to open each file in the editor and then do the search and replace. It will do a global search of all opened files but to be honest, it's much quicker to just work with the local copy.

        Let's presume I have 1000 pages for one website (local) but only want to ftp the modified files. I will do a global search and replace on the lot. It may be that only 20 pages got modified. I then go to that folder and arrange the files to be listed by date modified. From there I can just select the modified files and drag them straight into my ftp client. The whole thing takes minutes start to finish.

        Lee
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