Pretty Links Warning! Are your affiliate links being tracked?

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I had some time to kill before heading to work the other day so i thought I would see what kind of hits I was getting on my pretty links. Shockingly I discovered I was getting more clicks on my amazon links then amazon was actually tracking.

Now I know some of that might be due to Amazon's need to have different affiliate programs in different countries. But I also found out here at WA and from a Google search that amazon affiliate links don't work with pretty links.

Luckily my website hasn't been up for that long, but what if I miss out on a sale? I really don't even want to consider that possibility :( And of course I find this out 30 minutes before I have to leave for work. Definitely not of enough time to go through all my posts and redo all the links before I have to leave. And naturally I can't think of anything else while at work.

I got of work st 9:30 and spent half the night fixing my links, I couldn't have slept otherwise. So as I don't want any of you losing out on sales, check your links and don't use pretty links for amazon and possibly other affiliates. Otherwise it is a great plugin.

It has been two days since I made the changes. Previously I had about 3 clicks a week if not less. In the past two days I have gotten 30 clicks, so I am hoping my first sale isn't too far away. And I also hope this doesn't happen to you guys.

Cheers

Sarah

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Sarah, I installed the Pretty Link plugin and it's wonderful, and yes its on and ready, waiting in your dashboard. It will handle all of the links within your website. I don't know which companies you are using, but with Amazon for example. Make sure you go to Amazon Associates, then you choose the product then DON'T click on the get link from the right side, NO - Click on the one at the top of page which says "get link" (at top left) then when the box appears you must click on "Text only" then you want to copy the URL after the a> (where it starts with http) up to the part where its enough to include your ID one time (not all of it - it's about half or less of the text in their) up to the tag end which looks like this > Then you scroll down and must click on the box that says "No follow" the SEO (this stops crawling problems) and works good success. Then you copy the little piece on the right which is the new shortened link. Then you pop that into your text using the usual "Insert a link" method. That's it!!! Done. Bye for now.

Thanks so much for this very helpful information.

Thanks for the heads up on that Sarah really appreciate you helping your fellow members. Blessing to you. Take care be well.
Andre

Sarah,
I have pretty links in my dashboard, but I don't know if it's on or off or how to check it. Could you give me a quick run down?

Goto your dashboard and click on plugins -- to turn off Pretty Links click on deactivate and that will turn it off.

Hi Sarah. I've never heard of Pretty Links. Will have to check it out!

It's a wordpress plugin and you can learn about it in one of the trainings or courses.

Hi Alanna the link Sarah is talking about is below hope it helps.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/understanding-and-leveraging-affiliate-links Take care be well.
Andre

Thanks for the info you make me glad Amazon won't let me join them all the best

Thanks for the info!
Good luck on your first sale, any day now!
Have a great day!

Thanks for this information. I cannot use Amazon (due to states taxes constraints) and work with Share A Sale. So far, Pretty Links does not seem to prevent the links from working on their side.

Thank you for that I will check mine later today as well.
Have a good one take care be well.
Andre

Happy you could fix the problems!

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