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How to Install and Activate the Thirsty Affiliates Pro for Multisite
WordPress Multisite allows you to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. If you’re running ThirstyAffiliates and ThirstyAffiliates Pro on a Multisite, then it’s important to know how to properly install, activate and update them. Installation On Multisite To install the ThirstyAffiliates and ThirstyAffiliates Pro plugins, the Super Admin must install them… >
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How To Track Geo IP Stats When Cloudflare Is Enabled
Cloudflare masks the IP address of the user and moves it to another HTTP header. To make it compatible with ThirstyAffiliate’s stats collection module you will need to add the following snippet of code to your functions.php file or a drop-in plugin. function ta_cloudflare_ip_compatibility( $ip ) { if ( ! empty( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP’] ) ) $ip… >
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URL Slug is getting “-2” at the end
If you’re getting a “-2” at the end of the URL Slug after adding an Affiliate Link, it’s most likely that you have a file or an image which has the same file name as the slug used for your Affiliate Link. You can check this on your WordPress Dashboard, under Media > Libary. Note that… >
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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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I run a security plugin on my site and it’s flagging a file in ThirstyAffiliates Stats as Malware, should I be concerned?
The short answer is no. Long answer: A number of security plugins incorrectly flag the allagents.xml file that resides in the Stats add-on as a potential malware threat. This file is not malware and is part of how ThirstyAffiliates Stats filters out web crawlers and bots (sometimes even malicious ones) from skewing your click statistics. The file… >
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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 should not be used to… >
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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 Set Event Notifications
Event notifications, which are available in ThirstyAffiliates Pro only, allow you to send a notification to someone when some significant event happens with your affiliate links. You can set up different event notifications, then assign one or more to an affiliate link and ThirstyAffiliates will monitor that link for those events. Warning: For this feature… >
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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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