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WordPress SEO by Yoast Adds A Meta Box To My Affiliate Links Edit Screen, Do These Settings Matter?
The settings in Yoast will have no effect on your ThirstyAffiliates links as ThirstyAffiliates hooks in prior to any template code loading for its redirection. Your best bet is to hide this settings box from your affiliate links edit screens. You can do this by: Logging into the backend of your site Wave your mouse over… >
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How The Enhanced JS Redirect Feature Works
In ThirstyAffiliates 3.3.0 we introduced a brand new feature called the Enhanced JS Redirect which is now the default redirection type in ThirstyAffiliates for new users. Why Use This Over The Server-Side Redirection Methods? To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with the server-side redirect methods. But we believe in innovation and staying ahead of the… >
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How To Prevent Affiliate Links From Getting Indexed In Search Engines
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is important for any blog or website. That’s why ThirstyAffiliates provide features to add additional rel tags to your affiliate links so you can control additional attributes about those links. While we have a dedicated option for “nofollow” that doesn’t always stop your links getting indexed in the SERPs these… >
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How To Remove Affiliate Links From Sitemap (WordPress SEO/Yoast SEO)
Yoast SEO (also called WordPress SEO) is one of the biggest SEO plugins for WordPress and is used on millions of sites around the world. If you’re using ThirstyAffiliates in combination with WordPress SEO it’s best practice to remove the ThirstyAffiliates affiliate links and link categories from your sitemaps. This can be done by following this… >
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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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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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How to insert affiliate links into your content
Inserting affiliate links into your content can be done in Classic editor and in Gutenberg editor in a few simple steps. First, you’ll need to make sure you have the following options unchecked under ThirstyAffiliates->Settings->General section: This will ensure that you have the ThirstyAffiliates inserter icons visible in both of your editors. INSERT AFFILIATE LINKS… >
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Help, my links aren’t redirecting! It just brings up a 404 error.
This is a common issue usually caused by another plugin or theme not flushing redirect rules correctly after setting up another custom post type. To resolve the problem follow these steps: Deactivate ThirstyAffiliates, don’t worry your links are safely stored in the database. Reactivate ThirstyAffiliates Visit the Settings->Permalinks page and click save. Go back to… >
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What does open in new window do?
Why use Open in new window? Open in new window allows your viewers to stay on your website when they click on a link. This helps keep people on your site by keeping it open in the previous tab. When should you use Open in new window? It is best to use Open in new… >
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How to omit IP’s from Click tracking
By default ThirstyAffiliates blocks bots accessing your affiliate links to give you more appropriate data in the report. In order to block additional bot(s), you should add them to the “Blocked bots” list under ThirstyAffiliates->Settings->General section: If bots have a useragent that can identify them as not genuine users you can add them to the… >
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