Jump Link Tutorial for Affiliate Web Sites

While creating a large affiliate site this month, I found myself wanting a way to disguise the ugly affiliate links that Commission Junction, Linkshare, Performics and other affiliate programs give us.

They don’t look pretty and I thought there could be some bad SEO ramifications to having so many ugly affiliate links. After all Google isn’t a huge fan of affiliate sites, according to their Webmaster Guidelines.

So the search was on. I found the jackpot right away with Steve Dawson’s tutorial How to create an Affiliate Link jump script in PHP.

How it works
It’s real easy. You create one reference page that has a list of all the affiliate URLs your web site will be linking to. Then you assign ID’s to each URL. That’s it for the reference page. When you link to an affiliate site, your code will look like

Virtual Marketing Blogs

Steve’s tutorial is real easy to understand and he provides the code for you to download. If you are an affiliate marketer and don’t use some type of affiliate jump link, then I recommend you check this tutorial out. Here’s the link again.

Posted in: Business