If you run your own affiliate program, and also build traffic from search engine, today’s tip will be very useful to you.<\/p>\n
Most affiliate links look something like this:<\/p>\n
www.yourProgram.com?r=referid<\/p>\n
With a good affiliate program, you can easily get hundreds or thousands of websites linking to your homepage through the customized affiliate links.<\/p>\n
Does it mean you have hundreds or thousands of backlinks pointing to your homepage? Sad to say, NO!<\/p>\n
Search engines treat www.yourProgram.com?r=referid as a new url that is different from www.yourProgram.com. So when someone links to www.yourProgram.com?r=referid, it is as good as linking to another url on your website. That link will not count as a backlink to your homepage.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, there is a simple trick to overcome this problem. It’s by using 301 redirect.<\/p>\n
301 redirect means “permanently moved”. When you add 301 redirect on www.yourProgram.com?r=referid, pointing it to www.yourProgram.com, you are telling the search spiders that the referral url has permanently moved to your homepage.<\/p>\n
301 redirect is search engine friendly. The search engines understand that since a url is permanently moved to another url, all the links on the former url should now belong to the new url.<\/p>\n
How To Create 301 Redirect?<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a technical question and I will not go into the details. There are many technical blogs and forums on the net where you can get the details. In this article, I’ll just show you what I use for my own websites. It’s a simple PHP script that I add to the index.php file of my websites.<\/p>\n <? This script simply says if ?r=[someReferID] exist, i.e. if it’s an affiliate link, add 301 Redirect on that page and redirect it to your homepage.<\/p>\n With this code, the search engine will ignore the referral url and credit all the backlinks to your homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you run your own affiliate program, and also build traffic from search engine, today’s tip will be very useful to you. Most affiliate links look something like this: www.yourProgram.com?r=referid With a good affiliate program, you can easily get hundreds or thousands of websites linking to your homepage through the customized affiliate links. Does it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nif ($r <> “”) {
\nheader( “HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
\nheader(“Location: http:\/\/www.yourProgram.com”);
\nexit();
\n}
\n?><\/p>\n