I'm just getting started with CJ, but this should apply to all affiliate programs. Say I like horses. I'm a CJ member and and find a product about horses. I get the aff link. I go over to my favorite horse forum and put my affiliate link in my sig. I leave some comments on some blogs with the affiliate link. I find some pages on my website that are appropriate and post the aff link. okay, good Now, say the horse product cuts their commission, or drops their product. I don't want to send traffic anymore. I have to go back to the horse forum and change my sig. I can't do anything about the blog comments. I have to find all the links on my website and change or delete them. what I've seen: Some guys forward to a page on their own site like mysite.com/horses, which redirects to the aff link. Is this the best way to do it? I've seen HTML and Javascript and .htaccess handle it. I think it's called a 301 redirect (?) ~ Anyway, the bottom line is, I can post a bunch of aff links, but if/when the product changes it'll be a pain to remember to edit some of them and some I can't edit, so I'm looking for advice. It would seem that a redirect would allow me to simply find a new horse product and replace the old link in just one place. Now to throw another twist into it, I've seen some affiliates NOT ALLOW redirects. Is there a way to handle those?
Why not use landing pages on your domain to host links so you can change on the fly when something goes awry?
Cpanel points a sub-domain to a sub-folder. Do you think a subdomain is better than a subdirectory? or doesn't it matter?
Well actually, I was assuming a landing page in between would cause some of the visitors to go away, but maybe a landing page on my site, like you say, is a better way to go. Maybe it'll warm them up a little.