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.

  • The Blog Post That Has Made Me $4875

    The Blog Post That Has Made Me $4875

    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 elsewhere. I used it to…

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  • How To Go Back To ThirstyAffiliates 2.0

    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 2.0 again, your links will…

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  • How To Load a MaxMind DB Manually

    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 grab the full version. To…

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  • Why Do I Have Extra Data Attributes On My Links Now?

    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 to tracking those particular links…

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  • Piggyback Paycheck: Affiliate Marketing and the Rise of the Mobile Empire

    Piggyback Paycheck: Affiliate Marketing and the Rise of the Mobile Empire

    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 the rules of the game…

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  • How To Use The Destination URL Instead Of Cloaked URL With Autolinker (Skimlinks Compatibility)

    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 which tells the Autolinker to…

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  • How To Enable Periods (.) In Link Slugs

    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 your link slugs then the…

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  • How To Add Featured Image Support To ThirstyAffiliates Links

    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 Images on your affiliate links,…

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  • Why do my URLs show the destination URL when clicked?

    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 cloaked URL in the address…

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  • Basic Workflow For ThirstyAffiliates AZON

    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 of AZON as just a…

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