Back when I was writing a lot, I started maintaining a personal blog called Code My Own Road. It’s a site for programmers like me who have started online businesses. It was a way for me to straighten things out in my head and write about things that didn’t fit
Tried ThirstyAffiliates 3.0 but need to temporarily go back to ThirstyAffiliates 2.0? We have you covered. ThirstyAffiliates 3.0 introduced a brand new data model and as such when you install and activate it, your existing 2.0 link data will have been migrated across. This means that if you install ThirstyAffiliates
The Geolocations add-on can work with MaxMind .mmdb files downloaded from MaxMind. The database you need is the Country level DB. There is a lite free version of this country level location database which is updated each quarter by MaxMind, but if you have an account with them you can also
Have you inspected your ThirstyAffiliates links and noticed that there is some extra “data-” attributes on the <a> tag? The latest version of Google Click Tracking adds some data attributes to links that are inserted from the ThirstyAffiliates Link Picker tool. They are designed to add more accuracy and speed
Some people create. Others promote. Somewhere in the middle – or is it more of a Venn diagram situation? – lay the affiliates. Affiliate marketing is a business triangle of sorts, with advertisers, publishers, and consumers all playing equally important parts. It’s a symbiotic relationship, but somewhere along the line
In some affiliate programs like Skimlinks, they detect external links on your blog by using an on-page javascript that you have to load on your site. This poses a problem because ThirstyAffiliates when paired with the Autolinker, will automatically use the cloaked affiliate link. We created this snippet of code
By default, WordPress itself will strip your slugs of any characters that it deems aren’t allowed in URLs. One of these characters is pretty common for people to want to include in their link slugs and that is the period/decimal point character (.) If you want to include this in
Some themes integrate nicely with ThirstyAffliates and allow you to create many different displays of your links on the front end. Unfortunately, out of the box, ThirstyAffiliates doesn’t have Featured Image support which some of these themes need to get their display looking right. To quickly add support for Featured
Showing the end destination URL after clicking on one of your cloaked affiliate links is expected behaviour with our plugin. Our cloaking method is actually a 301/302 redirect which means you get fully redirected to the destination. The reason we don’t support masking (eg. showing the site but with your
The ThirstyAffiliates AZON importer add-on is extremely powerful when used properly. It can speed up your link creation process 100x fold. This is a guide to help you get up to speed on the basic workflow of this powerful Amazon product to affiliate link importer. It helps if you think