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Archive for October, 2007

Hide Your Affiliate Links To Protect Your Affiliate Commission

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Ever wonder why you are not getting the affiliates commission from the sales generated through your affiliate links? This is because there are some “smart” people around that see your affiliate ID embedded into the affiliate link. They might not click on your affiliate link, but will straight go to the main web site URL, thus you will not get paid with the commission.

Now you can hide your affiliate ID by cloaking the affiliate links for free at LinkCloakers.com in order to prevent someone from stealing your affiliates commission. Basically, it modifies your affiliate link into a link that is more difficult to be recognized.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.3

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

I managed to upgrade my blog to WordPress 2.3 without much complication. I even dared to perform the upgrade before doing a backup of the database, which is strictly not recommended to do so. There was a slight compatibility issue with the plug-in I installed since the previous version. Other than that, everything went smoothly.

The built-in tagging feature is pretty useful, but there is no tags management feature. Luckily, I found the Tag Managing Thing plug-in that allows me to edit and delete the tags.

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