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What does nofollow do?

nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML. An element to instruct some search engines that the hyperlink should not influence the ranking of the link’s target in the search engine’s index. For an affiliate link, nofollow will help search engines identify which links

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Why you should name and categorize your affiliate links?

Why do you need to name your affiliate link? Naming your affiliate link allows you to easily recognized what that affiliate link is for and helps you find it again later. Why would you need to categorize affiliate links? Categories are best to help identify what your affiliate is really

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What exactly is a cloaked URL?

Cloaked URL is a local redirect that sends the user to the destination URL but allows you to share a shorter more friendly URL with your readers. What is the difference between Masked URL and Cloaked URL? Masked URL is hiding the URL completely, often using javascript to mask the

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Jansie Blom Interview affiliate marketers

Interview With An Affiliate: Jansie Blom

Welcome to another interview with an affiliate! Every now and then we post our chats with the affiliate marketers that catch our eye doing something unique or noteworthy that others could learn from. Today’s guest is Jansie Blom and he definitely fits that description. He runs a site called Rasp

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How Query String Passing Works

As of ThirstyAffiliates 3.0, we have introduced a new feature called Query String Passing. You can enable it on a global basis: Or on a per-link override basis: How It Works Query strings are those little bits of extra information on the end of links that you see sometimes like:

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