Do you really buy a new domain for every Ezine Article?

I'm curious how you guys handle pointing to the 'free' sites, since EzineArticles doesn't allow subdomain or subfolder links (ie: http://topic.blogspot.com or http://www.squidoo.com/topic). I'd like to hear more about this.

I have a different approach.

It's a little techy but it works for me (and keeps me from having to buy lots of domains).

I use some php code to check where the visitor is coming from, and redirect based on that.

Visitor from ezinearticles will be coming from your article, and the referer link has your article title in it. So you can modify some code to point to different landing pages based on the presence of keywords in the referring url.

I have a complete explanation at one of my blogs: How to Redirect Based on Referer

I'd put it here, but it's rather lengthy. The basics are that you point all your ezinearticles to a top-level domain (www.yourdomain.com) and the index.php file there checks the url of the referring page and can point to any number of different landing pages.

Hope that helps!

 

Ghalt: that is a cool method, but does EzineArticles allow this?

 

I've read the guidelines and don't see anything that prevents it.

Here's what it says:

# EzineArticles.com Editorial Guidelines: (AFFILIATE PROGRAMS):

Affiliate links will be allowed if the link is a domain name you own which forward/redirects to the affiliate link from the top-level of the domain name. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/

...but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html
http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will cause the article to be rejected.

 

Of course they don't, but will they ever find out?