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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 6 months ago by Ric M.
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  • August 29, 2010 at 4:55 pm #1759
    Ric M
    Member

    I currently use WP eStore and WP Affiliate for my site.

    One downside of the affiliate program is the setup of the URLs http://www.mysite.com.com/?ap=xxxx

    I use Go Codes WP plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gocodes/) which makes it easy to redirect long URLs to simple ones (like http://www.mysite.com/go/tim

    Is there a way to combine the two, or to give WP Affiliate the same sort of clean-looking URLs?

    September 12, 2010 at 8:39 pm #23823
    Ric M
    Member

    Hi Guys,

    Any reply to this?

    Just trying to get clean, SEO-friendly affiliate links through WP Affiliate.

    Thanks!

    Ric

    September 13, 2010 at 1:50 am #23824
    amin007
    Participant

    You are misinterpreting the true meaning of SEO friendly URLs. It is better to have your WordPress post or pages title as the URL rather than a question mark and a number as the search engines can index those keywords in the title. so for example consider the following two URLs

    1) http://www.example.com/?p=1

    2) http://www.example.com/my-seo-article

    Obviously number 2 is better as the search engine can understand what the topic is just from the URL. Now consider the following URL:

    http://www.example.com/my-seo-article?ap_id=xxx

    The above will only be bad if you wanted search engines to understand what “ap_id=xx” means? Do you really want that? No.. there is absolutely no value in it.

    Many people misunderstand the SEO friendly URL topic and think that any question mark in the URL is bad. That’s not true… a question mark is a HTML protocol to add HTTP GET values and pass the variable to a different webpage (this is the only way to do this).

    With that said, your affiliates can use the plugin you mentioned and make the following link:

    www.example.com/my-seo-article?ap_id=xxx

    look like the following on their sites:

    www.example.com/go/tim

    There is nothing wrong with that either.

    September 13, 2010 at 3:54 am #23825
    Ric M
    Member

    Thanks for the reply, but I wasn’t talking about on-site URLs, just wanted to have the links pointing to my site look more like natural links, without my affiliates having to go through the trouble.

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