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As a born again husband of 22 years, a father of three, a Jr. High English and U. S. History teacher and small business

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I am following steps perfectly to add affiliate links to my website. After I update in edit mode and then head to my site, the hyperlink is there, but when clicked on, a blank

I use bitly.com to shorten URL's (free)

After you update, do you click on 'Publish' ?
Kyle states to click on Publish to make it 'live'. That stuck with me, I haven't added affiliate links yet myself.

I finally got it to work with some advice from a fellow WA member. Apparently the link Amazon wanted me to copy and paste was too long. There is an option to use a shorter URL. It worked! That was not in the training, so I didn't know to check. Thanks for the reply.

That's good to know!
Where is the option to use a shorter link? in case I run into the same problem.

Thanks

Patrick, are you sure you're getting an affiliate link from Amazon. Are you using the shortened Amazon Affiliate link? Some of those affiliates links may be too long for the Wordpress link program. Amazon has a short link too. Try the short link.

Gary

No doubt you are doing some mistake. Give screenshots of what you are doing and people will help. There are many possible reasons. Which type of link, text, image, text and image, etc.

I finally got it to work with some advice from a fellow WA member. Apparently the link Amazon wanted me to copy and paste was too long. There is an option to use a shorter URL. It worked! That was not in the training, so I didn't know to check. Thanks for the reply.

Links can be long but if you add them in Text mode they will work.

I tried text only mode, and that didn't work. If fact, when I went to paste the link into my post it showed up in a red color instead of the blue. Thanks for your reply.

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Why are my affiliate links not working?

Why are my affiliate links not working?

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Everything Wordpress
Updated

I am following steps perfectly to add affiliate links to my website. After I update in edit mode and then head to my site, the hyperlink is there, but when clicked on, a blank

I use bitly.com to shorten URL's (free)

After you update, do you click on 'Publish' ?
Kyle states to click on Publish to make it 'live'. That stuck with me, I haven't added affiliate links yet myself.

I finally got it to work with some advice from a fellow WA member. Apparently the link Amazon wanted me to copy and paste was too long. There is an option to use a shorter URL. It worked! That was not in the training, so I didn't know to check. Thanks for the reply.

That's good to know!
Where is the option to use a shorter link? in case I run into the same problem.

Thanks

Patrick, are you sure you're getting an affiliate link from Amazon. Are you using the shortened Amazon Affiliate link? Some of those affiliates links may be too long for the Wordpress link program. Amazon has a short link too. Try the short link.

Gary

No doubt you are doing some mistake. Give screenshots of what you are doing and people will help. There are many possible reasons. Which type of link, text, image, text and image, etc.

I finally got it to work with some advice from a fellow WA member. Apparently the link Amazon wanted me to copy and paste was too long. There is an option to use a shorter URL. It worked! That was not in the training, so I didn't know to check. Thanks for the reply.

Links can be long but if you add them in Text mode they will work.

I tried text only mode, and that didn't work. If fact, when I went to paste the link into my post it showed up in a red color instead of the blue. Thanks for your reply.

See more comments

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