What does it mean when the LINK was converted into an AFFILIATE?
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Someone told me the below and I quote:
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Most of your links are affiliate, I’m not sure if you are aware. I do know that some templates (like WordPress) convert links to affiliates without bloggers knowing, but we’ve found a way to fix it!The link you’re looking for should look like this:
nail
polishFind that link and replace it with the link below:
<a href=”http://www.julep.com/shop/nail-polish.html”
rel=”noskim”>nail polish
–Unquote–Could you please help me what is an affiliate link? and are there any other types of links that I could use in my post?
What does it mean when the LINK was converted into an AFFILIATE?
Appreciate your assistance.
Best regards,
ChiaThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I do know that some templates (like WordPress) convert links to affiliates without bloggers knowing
It means whoever wrote that was completely bullshitting you. There was a Skimlinks program several years ago but WordPress ditched it.
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Sounds like a scammer trying to get you to put their affiliate links on your site or just send traffic to their site
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…but we’ve found a way to fix it!
When you see unsolicited “help” offered like that, run.
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Thanks for your comments. Appreciate it.
But I am trying to write something for their site please see below link on my post (I am not sure if I should be including my link but for better understanding will do):
https://charmchin.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/how-to-winterize-your-nails/And they said that the links I used on this post were converted to affiliates. so they suggested the above.
What is a link that was converted into an affiliate? What is the difference?
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That’s not an affiliate link. There is only one link in that post that I can see.
An affiliate link is one that includes tracking code like “id=1234567” and whoever owns that identity gets a percentage of the money made when people click through that link to buy stuff.
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Find that link and replace it with the link below:
nail polishIf you create a link to that nail polish page at julep.com using the WordPress.com post editor “Insert/edit link” tab, you will obtain the following:
Whereas, you’ve been told to create instead the link
The difference is a rel tag with the value=noskim. I don’t know why the second case would be considered non-affiliate, and the first affiliate.
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Sorry. I forgot that the HTML codes wouldn’t display. Let’s try that again, unclosed .
Suggested to you:
rel=”noskim”>nail polish</aWordPress.com created link:
nail polish</a -
a href=”http://www.julep.com/shop/nail-polish.html” rel=”noskim”>nail polish
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a href=”http://www.julep.com/shop/nail-polish.html”>nail polish -
Yes that was her point. the first case was an affiliate and the second case with a rel=”noskim”>nail polish html codes was said a non affiliate.
That confuses me really. :( -
Neither was ever an affiliate link. The change she suggested was not necessary. If it appears to be a skimlink, then it’s actually likely that her browser is infected with malware. That’s a big problem, but it is not your problem.
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Technically, I have two links on my post. 1. on the “Julep” word and 2. on the “nail polish” words.
I was told that most of my links were converted by wordpress to affiliate links (maybe she was referring also with my other posts. But, I won’t concentrate on the others. I would like to deal with these first.)
So, I did what was suggested to replace the “nail polish” link with a (rel=”noskim”>nail polish…..) html codes as said this is a non affiliate link. But the original link I did was this only “http://www.julep.com/shop/nail-polish.html” and said this was an affiliate one.
Can you please help me understand what is the difference on the two?
Why said it was an affiliate?
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http://www.julep.com/shop/nail-polish.html is not an affiliate link.
This is an affiliate link:
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