A way to insert a code into urls using WP, without appearing obvious?

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I thought I was decent at handling Wordpress, but it seems I'm not.

Anyway, here's what I want to achieve:

I want see after how many email promotions I will reach the point of diminishing returns, meaning after what number of promotions most people will have bought the product.

I will do this by creating 5 (or more) identical review pages, each one with a different affiliate code at the end (link 1, link 2, link 3, etc.).

My problem is that I don't know a way to disguise this in the url. The best I've come up with is something like:

Code:
www.example.com/product-review-01
www.example.com/product-review-02
www.example.com/product-review-03
etc.
One way I could do it is to create multiple categories, and then the links would look like:
Code:
www.example.com/01/product-review
www.example.com/02/product-review
www.example.com/03/product-review
The problem is I would end up with too many categories.

Does anyone know a better way?
#programming #appearing #code #insert #obvious #urls
  • Lucian, I'm not sure I understand your thought process here. If you want to see where in your email sequence you hit the point of diminishing returns, wouldn't you want to code the urls in the emails, rather than the review pages?

    Coding the review pages would also require you to set up different email sequences for each ID, wouldn't it?

    If you really want to disguise the URL the browser sees, you can use a simple bit of javascript to change what the viewer sees in the status bar.

    Use the onMouseover event to change the window.status property. Lots of tutorials with examples out there.
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    • John,

      Yes, it's true, I want to code the links that I give out in the emails. I will have 5 different links for the 5 different review pages (which are actually identical in content; the only difference is the affiliate link at the bottom), but I want to make them look like they are all the same, so people won't get suspicious.

      I will start off (naturally) with email no. 1 which will link to review page no. 1, then email no. 2 which will link to review page no. 2, etc. After that I'll analyze the performance of each promotion, and cut off all emails after 80% (or something like that) of total sales are reached, and move on to the next product in line.

      So far, the only way I can think of is to create 5 different pages in Wordpress and give them the same title, but at the end enter a different short code or something like "01".

      The result would look like this:

      Code:
      http://www.example.com/xbox-360-revi...eat-console-01
      My problem is that they might become suspicious when they see in future emails the link slightly changed to another code (i.e. 04), but with the same content on the landing page.
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  • Maybe I am way off base, but why not use something like pretty link. Then you could create 5 different links, which you could point anywhere.

    No?
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    • It's the same thing: I would create 5 different links. I want to somehow make it look very close to just 1 link, but have 5 subtle variations.
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  • Personally, I think you're overestimating your readers' attention to detail.

    If your readers are sophisticated marketers, they'll expect to see a different URL in different emails - they know that's how things are tracked.

    If they're not marketers, dollars to donuts no one will even notice, let alone get suspicious.
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  • What about just using a dummy parameter, e.g., ?
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