By: Adriana Copaceanu

Adriana Copaceanu — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:35:02 +0000

1. You set up the redirect when you first link to your affiliate product. So, for example, if I am writing a post about outsourcing, and I want o promote Jimmy D Brown's and Nicole Dean's Outsource Weekly today for the first time, I need to set up my redirect now. Then, if they evern chage the program, or go offline, I can just go into my redirect file and change the code in one place, and all the links going to this product will now go to the right page.
2. Yes, it doesn't matter that your site is WP. You jsut crete a folder in your root directory and put all your redirect files in there.
3.Absolutely not. You see, when you redirect a page, no one will see the page you jsut created: they'll be automatically redirected to the merchant page. The redirect page is a very simple page, with only one line of code (look in the post for the yellow highlighted text).
4. You place the code right at the top of the page.
Let me know if that helped.

By: shelwriter

shelwriter — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:44:16 +0000

Very good explaination, Adriana. Thank you!! I have a few questions though.
1 – When do I need to redirect my affiliate links? As I set them up? Or, if the merchant changes things?
2 – Can you set up a redirect from the server side with php using a WP site?
3 – Does your new page have to mirror (look like) the old page that you're redirecting? I think the process of setting up a new page is a little confusing to me. Sorry.
4 – Where on the new page that I create do I put that code?
I'm coding challenged. LOL

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