Author: Josh Kohlbach

Josh Kohlbach is the creator of our product ThirstyAffiliates, which he remains an active supporter of. Today, he runs Australian company Rymera Web Co. The company’s products include our fellow Awesome Motive Growth Accelerator products Wholesale Suite, Advanced Coupons, Inventoroo, and Simple Page Tester.

  • 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 should not be used to…

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  • [VIDEO] What Affiliate Link Redirect Type Should You Use When Cloaking Your Affiliate Links?

    [VIDEO] What Affiliate Link Redirect Type Should You Use When Cloaking Your Affiliate Links?

    If you’re a blogger you’re probably busy working on your craft and might not actually be up with all the lingo in the affiliate marketing world. And goodness knows we have a fair bit of indecipherable jargon to get your head around! One of those things that many people don’t understand is the “redirect type”. When…

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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 about. It assists you easily…

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  • What is the difference between the redirect types and when to use them?

    ThirstyAffiliates has a number of different redirect types to choose from for maximum flexibility. 301 redirect – refer to permanently moving your link juice (ranking power) to the new URL. A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect, it tells the browser this resource has moved to this location. The browser then caches the redirect. 302…

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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 URL in the browser. This…

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  • Can I Use ThirstyAffiliates To Run An Affiliate Program On My Store?

    No, ThirstyAffiliates is the wrong tool for that job. ThirstyAffiliates is a plugin for your affiliates to manage their affiliate links from all of the affiliate programs they belong to (including yours). It is not a tool for store owners to run their own affiliate program. A great tool that will let you run your affiliate…

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  • Interview With An Affiliate: Jansie Blom

    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 & Rivet which focuses on…

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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: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=funny+cats&oq=funny+cats Affiliate links also have…

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