Pretty Links

[HireMyMum]

Hi Folks

Just a quickie for today ... am I making a mistake using WP Pretty Links plugin to cloak my affiliate links?

Cheers
Leigh

[Getagrip]

I would just test the links to make sure they work so that you are getting credit for the sale - this is easy with Clickbank, but may not be possible with other affiliate networks.

[HireMyMum]

Thanks G-A-G ;)

I have done that and my clicks show up but I have clients that say they clicked through and there is no record :(

Think I might just use the raw links, to be sure.

Cheers
Leigh

[lisahartwell]

I have been using the free version and haven't noticed any problems so far. In fact, I notice that Google indexes the links as a page on my site so it appears as a keyword rich page but, of course, if someone clicked it from Google it goes through to the affiliate site and registers as traffic from me.

Lisa

[Lynn Terry]

Hey Lisa - Welcome to the forum :)

[lisahartwell]

Thanks Lynn. Saw your tweet and headed over to comment and then realised I'd forgotten to rejoin when you set up the new forums.

Lisa

[simonwj]

I've been using the free version as well with no problems. Lisa, I don't know if you noticed that you can set the link to be no follow if you want. There's an Options link which opens a few additional setting when you create a link. You can default those settings in the Pretty Links Options section as well.

[lisahartwell]

Thanks Simon, no I hadn't seen that.

Lisa