Temporary or Permanent Redirect for affiliate URL?

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by JDAX23, Apr 30, 2011.

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    I am new to click bank and Im not sure if i want to make my own squeeze page yet or just redirect my url to my hoplink, which would take the visitor straight to the vendor's site i think?

    Anyway, just like the title says, should i choose the temporary redirect or the permanent redirect.

    As I may want to make my own squeeze page in the future. What are ya'lls opinions?
     
    JDAX23, Apr 30, 2011 IP
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    JDAX23 Peon

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    Also, do you all recommend the redirect? Im not sure if i decide later to remove the redirect (if thats even possible) and make my own squeeze page if i will lose my backlinks or not? Any help is greatly appreciated :)
     
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    Make a on your site there and put index.php with redirect code there. So, when user clicks http://www.yousite.com/go-to-affiliate they got redirected. Later on, if you decide to change it to an opt-in page, just remove index.php and add you landing page to this folder. Whether your PHP redirect is permanent or temporary doesn't really make any difference.
     
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    Ok, so basically permanent doesnt really mean that it will be permanently redirected? I guess I was scared that if I did that I wouldnt be able to switch back later. And to put the index.php with the redirect code on my site I would just go to the root directory and add it there? And by doing that does the visitor actually ever see my page, if say they click on a link to it in an article i wrote, or do they just see the vendor's site?
     
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    OK. Here is step by step guide to redirection :)

    1. Login to cPanel and go to File manager for your domain
    2. Create a folder. Your affiliate URL will be http://www.yourdomain.com/folder. If you put it in root your root domain will be redirected. Don't do that.
    3. Enter this folder and create index.php file
    4. Edit index.php and create redirect. Here is exact code:
    <?php header("location: http://www.your-long.com/affiliate?link&goes=here"); ?>
    Code (markup):
    5. Test by entering http://www.yourdomain.com/folder in browser. You
    should be redirected to your affiliate offer.

    When you decide to change it, delete index.php and upload your landing page to
    the same folder. Done.

    Permanent or temporary redirects are technical terms for the way Google
    interpret the redirect. You control your domain and can remove or change
    any redirects you created any time.
     
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    Thank you very much :) i really appreciate it!
     
    JDAX23, May 1, 2011 IP