How to add the /go or /visit affiliate links

[NdeJonge]

I've noticed for a while that the majority of other poker sites have /go or /visit affiliate links to online poker rooms.

For example http://wwwx.pokeraffiliatesite.com/go/fulltiltpoker
rather than
http://wwwx.fulltiltpoker.com/?key-affiliatekey
Could someone tell me how to do this.

It looks better and it would be nice to not have to find my affiliate link each time I want to link to a poker site.

Thanks in advance.

[Chalkie]

I've noticed for a while that the majority of other poker sites have /go or /visit affiliate links to online poker rooms.

For example http://wwwx.pokeraffiliatesite.com/go/fulltiltpoker
rather than
http://wwwx.fulltiltpoker.com/?key-affiliatekey
Could someone tell me how to do this.

It looks better and it would be nice to not have to find my affiliate link each time I want to link to a poker site.

Thanks in advance.

I would guess that the first one would just be a link to a redirect page in a robots excluded folder and not what you are looking for when trying to do this for multi sites

the second i guess is a php/database call that will work for multi sites.

Hopefully someone can put you right, however, not me unfortunately.

Someone will be along to put you right i guess

[CK]

Create a file called visit. In that file create additional pages named pokerstars.htm or whatever the room may be

Now open your htaccess file and insert this line. (note if your using wordpress you will need to place the redirects after your wordpress rewrites have ended. Drop it down one line)

Redirect 301 /visit/pokerstars.htm http://www.youraffiliatelinkgoeshere.com

Make sure there is only one space between Redirect & 301, one space between 301& visit and one space between the file path and affiliate link

* or just be lazy and copy the sample I gave you and make your changes* ( I would!)

Block your /visit/ folder or whatever you name it in your robots.txt file

[Unknown Webmaster]

There are several different ways to do this.

I think the easiest is to create a folder in the root directory called "go", so it will be located at www.example.com/go/ and then add files will redirect the user.

There are a small tutorial on how to create a HTML document that redirects here: html redirect

Be sure to tell the search engines that you does not want those pages to be indexed, if you don't, they may begin to mess with your rankings.

[321]

(With a standard website) there is no need to have a file. You just make a link, then 301 redirect it to /?key-affiliatekey

[NdeJonge]

Create a file called visit. In that file create additional pages named pokerstars.htm or whatever the room may be

Now open your htaccess file and insert this line. (note if your using wordpress you will need to place the redirects after your wordpress rewrites have ended. Drop it down one line)

Redirect 301 /visit/pokerstars.htm http://www.youraffiliatelinkgoeshere.com

Make sure there is only one space between Redirect & 301, one space between 301& visit and one space between the file path and affiliate link

* or just be lazy and copy the sample I gave you and make your changes* ( I would!)

Block your /visit/ folder or whatever you name it in your robots.txt file

Ok I'm trying to do it like this and I understand how to do the 301 Redirect, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to make the pages under the visit file. I went into my websites file manager and created a visit file, but then I couldn't see a way to make another page under that file.

[Jeremy]

Having your affiliate links set up like this is very convenient because you can essentially change all the links on your site to that room by modifying one file.

The way I do it here on pal is I have a directory folder named "go" in the root. Then when I need to add a room I simply open up a txt file, insert the affiliate code, and then save it as pokersite.php. Done and Done.... Then when you visit yoursite.com/go/pokersite.php, it will redirect through your link.

I believe I also have noindex/nofollowed that entire "go" folder. No need to give up any outgoing link juice or PR through aff. links. There are numerous ways to redirect though, this is just what has worked for me.

Here is an example of the code. Just open up a txt file, put this code in, and save as a .php in a "go" folder in the root.

<? header("location: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com?key=MDAwMDU3QjkwMDAwREQ5ODAw MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDc-&sa=1"); ?>

Let me know if you need a hand, I'm more than happy to help.

[NdeJonge]

Thanks a lot for everyones help. Got Kaus on Skype and she walked me through it! This is definitely going to make things easier.

[CasinoMack]

I see you got it solved. There are so many different ways to do this.

[BGray]

Having your affiliate links set up like this is very convenient because you can essentially change all the links on your site to that room by modifying one file.

The way I do it here on pal is I have a directory folder named "go" in the root. Then when I need to add a room I simply open up a txt file, insert the affiliate code, and then save it as pokersite.php. Done and Done.... Then when you visit yoursite.com/go/pokersite.php, it will redirect through your link.

I believe I also have noindex/nofollowed that entire "go" folder. No need to give up any outgoing link juice or PR through aff. links. There are numerous ways to redirect though, this is just what has worked for me.

Here is an example of the code. Just open up a txt file, put this code in, and save as a .php in a "go" folder in the root.



Let me know if you need a hand, I'm more than happy to help.

I prefer this method over the htaccess 301 because I can put my analytics code in the file and it will track. This allows me to set goals in Analytics which have become an addiction of mine. :P