Jason & Bruce, in response to Jason?s post of 05/18/2006 @ 08:32 PM
I do not doubt what you are saying is to be true ?but that is what I understood at the time.
As to Jason?s post of 05/19/2006 @ 10:50 AM
You are right, she developed some kind of jedi solution ?but it sounded too complicated and from my experience complicated usually also translates to expensive.
As to Bruce?s response posted on 05/19/2006 @ 10:57 AM
The two methods that make sense to me is using an .htaccess rewrite if a link contains Affiliate= (or whatever the quote is) that actually takes them to Merchant page, or running some sort of I-frame connector (think that's what Susan uses).
Bruce, you are correct in your assumptions about my reasoning (though quite honestly I did not understand the ?I-frame? solution? it?s over my head) ?not that my line of reasoning would be correct. But while we are at it, I would like to share it with you folks and get your opinions.
First, we are working on several different affiliate strategies, wherein we hope it will be very successful.
Second, from on SEO perspective, I thought it may be better if the affiliate link to category and product pages matched or are similar to those index by Google (just a thought ?nothing more).
Third, because we use a robot.txt file that disallows Google from indexing the Merchant2 directory (to avoid the remote possibility of being penalized due to the infamous ?duplicate content? Miva thread? [Remember that one? It went on forever?]), I thought it may not be a good idea to have affiliates link to dynamic pages ?thus possibly affecting our rankings because the affiliate links contained a Merchant2 directory path (again, just a thought ?nothing more).
That?s why I thought it would be best for each affiliate to link to different category and/or product pages of their choosing. That was my rational ?not that is right, it?s just what I thought. But I sincerely welcome your input on the matter.
This is not an accurate statement, and viking quoters and probably this group did not say it was not possible to do what you want with miva merchant pages. affiliate manager is a miva merchant module and thus everyone assumes you are talking about miva merchant pages unless you specify static pages. You can however do the same with static pages by using viking's redirect quote that is included with their docs. It is something like
http://www.domain.com/Merchan2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Quote=xyz&rd=http : //www.domain.com/piggys/xyz.html
I do not doubt what you are saying is to be true ?but that is what I understood at the time.
As to Jason?s post of 05/19/2006 @ 10:50 AM
He wants to link to his merchant optimizer pages. Another aside is that I believe Susan has developed a jedi method with ajax to use affiliate manager with merchant optimizer.
You are right, she developed some kind of jedi solution ?but it sounded too complicated and from my experience complicated usually also translates to expensive.
As to Bruce?s response posted on 05/19/2006 @ 10:57 AM
That's what I thought...so I don't really see the need. Optimizer is used either for SEO purposes or Performance enhancements or both. In either case, I don't see the logic of pointing Affiliate links at Optimizer pages unless you really think you'll be getting lots of folks adding these links to their pages (and hence matching them up with indexed pages).
The two methods that make sense to me is using an .htaccess rewrite if a link contains Affiliate= (or whatever the quote is) that actually takes them to Merchant page, or running some sort of I-frame connector (think that's what Susan uses).
First, we are working on several different affiliate strategies, wherein we hope it will be very successful.
Second, from on SEO perspective, I thought it may be better if the affiliate link to category and product pages matched or are similar to those index by Google (just a thought ?nothing more).
Third, because we use a robot.txt file that disallows Google from indexing the Merchant2 directory (to avoid the remote possibility of being penalized due to the infamous ?duplicate content? Miva thread? [Remember that one? It went on forever?]), I thought it may not be a good idea to have affiliates link to dynamic pages ?thus possibly affecting our rankings because the affiliate links contained a Merchant2 directory path (again, just a thought ?nothing more).
That?s why I thought it would be best for each affiliate to link to different category and/or product pages of their choosing. That was my rational ?not that is right, it?s just what I thought. But I sincerely welcome your input on the matter.
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