There is quite a lot of talk around hiding, redirecting or cloaking affiliate links at the moment and if it is a good or bad idea from an SEO, will I get penalised by google perspective.
What we mean is turning a www.merchantwebsite.co.uk/en/category?aid=1234432234 link into www.yourwebsite.co.uk/product
Reasons for doing this are, visitors are more likely to click the link if it is pointing to your domain name instead of somebody elses, it looks more tidy and is easier to remember.
There are quite a few ways of doing this but my favourite is via htaccess
add the following line to your .htaccess file
Redirect 301 /productname http://www.affiliatewebsite.com/?aid=32134
in the above example www.yourwebsite.co.uk/productname will redirect to www.affiliatewebsite.com?aid=32134
How simple is that and all updateable from one file.
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