HOW DO I CLEAN UP AFFILIATE LINKS ON MY BLOG?
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I was wondering if anyone could help me? Recently I collaborated with a company and one their requests was that I add a link that goes back to their page. This is something i’ve done a million times before and so I did this. But I was then sent an email by the company saying that the link wasn’t clean and was showing up as being affiliated, even though I hadn’t used an affiliated link! Can anyone tell me why this has happened and how I can possibly rectify it and make it a clean link.
Really would appreciate the help and in advance thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Howdy –
I’ll be happy to have a look. Please confirm which site this is for? And the most recent link that you added.
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Thank you so much. My Blog is Lellavictoria.com.
the page for the post I did is here >> https://lellavictoria.com/2017/04/24/11350/
The link I was asked to post was this : https://www.greatplains.co.uk/product/j6hak/take-it-easy-oversized-stripe-t-shirt.htm
But for some reason it’s showing like this and I don’t know why:
I hope this makes sense and any help or suggestions would very much be appreciated.
Thanks :)
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Looking at that post I see the link as you have given it without the extra ID etc. When I clicked on the link it also brought me to the shirt page on the greatplains website directly at the clean link.
Where exactly is that link showing up with all the extra gobbledygook? If someone is using an app or somesuch to track your affiliate links, that’s not something we can help with here.
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The guy who I am in touch with over the collaboration, emailed me this:
“If I can still be fussy though, all the links are still pulling in the affiliate code on the end of them which makes them have a redundant value for SEO, would it be possible to remove this trailing code so the URL’s are ‘clean’ please?
For example, the link for ‘stripe top’ currently goes to https://www.greatplains.co.uk/product/j6hak/take-it-easy-oversized-stripe-t-shirt.htm?GA.mc_id=affiliate_text_Awin_GP&utm_source=Awin&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888&awc=3209_1493805001_e324c7daf1363250204438208d8bdcdc (affiliate code tracked on the end)
Ideally, it needs to go to – https://www.greatplains.co.uk/product/j6hak/take-it-easy-oversized-stripe-t-shirt.htm ”
When I click them they come up clean but then when I click the links using google chrome, I can then see all the, like you said Jennifer, goobledygook!
I just am at loss with what the problem is and how I can fix it.
Thank you for both your help so far.
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I’m now on Chrome 58 on my PC and still not encountering the junk code at the end of the link when I click on the link in your post.
However, I just tried from my mobile phone in Chrome 58 and indeed the additional code appears at the end of the link. There is also a click tracking redirect link at wordpress.redirectingat.com before I get to the greatplains site. I have no idea who adds this so have tagged this for Staff. Their replies may be a little delayed this week, so please be patient.
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Howdy –
I’m not able to see any of the goobledygook in Chrome on iPhone.
Here’s the link I get on the stripe top link:
https://www.greatplains.co.uk/product/j6hak/take-it-easy-oversized-stripe-t-shirt.htm
Which device are you using?
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Here’s the temporary screenshot [redacted] Thanks.
It eventually resolves to the bloated URL that myspiritualquestblog posted above.
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@justjennifer I’m getting regular links on my android phone (chrome latest on LG G4, very few apps installed). But we’ll forward this to our ads team to see if they recognize it.
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We did a little digging: we sometimes use skimlinks with l logged out views. You can get rid of that with the no-ads feature of any premium plan:
https://wordpress.com/plansHope that helps!
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@supernovia – I’m a bit confused. Do you mean the original poster? If so, they are rocking a custom domain name meaning they already have an upgrade package and by default no ads.
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They had a custom domain before we required plans – so no no-ads. They can upgrade pretty easily over at https://wordpress.com/plans though.
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Hey, Thanks to staff for getting in touch so quickly! So am I right in assuming it’s because of the add’s on my page and that is what’s interfering with the links? And to stop this, I would need to upgrade to premium?
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Or the Personal plan. If you go that route add it to your cart first.
I believe whatever plan you choose will be pro-rated because you already have a custom domain upgrade (as long as you are logged in and buying it with the same username that bought it). If you run into any problem, let us know.
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Just to clarify, it’s not your ads that are interfering, but WordPressdotcom’s ads. See here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/
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Yeah, the personal plan is only a few dollars more than what you’re paying right now. Private domain (you’ll get a discount this first year because of the existing domain) + no ads + extra space + direct support. It’s not a bad deal :)
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