Simple Affiliate URLs in Wordpress

Mike Smith — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:26:06 +0000

Gone are the days that a 100 character link with a bunch of id’s and question marks makes it past the viewers eyes when you’re trying to promote your sponsors or affiliate links. So, what can we do to change that and make it easier to generate leads and clicks? There is one simple way to do this and it’s being done by some of the biggest wordpress users out right now. I’m talking about the www.blogthememachine.com/go/sponsor.php links you see on blogs. This is simple to create and will only take you 1-2 minutes per link (even less once you get used to it.

Your first step needs to be opening up notepad or any other text editor you might like and pasting the following code into it:

*note: make sure you retype the four ” because they will not work when copy and pasting from the box above.

Now, after you paste this into the text editor and add your actual link in, you’ll want to save it as “sponsor.php” replacing the word sponsor with whatever name of the company/product you’re linking to is.

All that’s left to do is create a “go” folder in your favorite ftp program (or cpanel, ect) and add the file to that folder.

Optionally, you can also make the folder “favorite” or “product” or “site” or “out”. You don’t have to use “go” if you don’t want to. Personally, I use “recommend” on some of my websites. It’s your call.

So, there’s not many steps. I hope you weren’t looking for a long drawn out process That’s not what we do here. Simple solutions to simple problems is our motto!

Enjoy

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