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You can always bounce the links off of your server first to avoid this affiliate hijacking that Pinterest & others do. Post a link to a page on your server that
by downandout 12y ago
You can always bounce the links off of your server first to avoid this affiliate hijacking that Pinterest & others do. Post a link to a page on your server that has a javascript redirect to the affiliate page. This fools the Pinterest bot that follows shortened links looking for http redirects to affiliate URLs.
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- Breefield 12y agoSo dumb for not doing this.
- greendata 12y agoI don't think this is allowed any longer on amazon and will probably get you banned. I'm not sure though http://www.groovypost.com/news/amazon-associates-bans-url-shorteners/ http://www.groovypost.com/news/amazon-associates-bans-url-sh...
- downandout 12y agoInteresting. The bit that they are talking about is this: "In addition, you must not use a link shortening service in a manner that makes it unclear that you are linking to an Amazon Site" First, your own server is (arguably) not a link shortening service as long as you don't offer that service. Second, if you were really worried about it, you could register a domain for your site called, for example, forwarding-you-to-amazon.com or fantastic-amazon-deals.com, link to it, forward from there. It seems to me that this would be compliant. That couldn't be any more clear that people are going to Amazon.com.