Miscellaneous Hacks - ForumYield Affiliate Link and Keyword Rewriter for Commission Junction, Amazon, eBay

We are pleased to announce the free release of ForumYield Affiliate Rewriter

Boost your forum's profit with three or more different streams of income when you implement the Forum Yield Affiliate Rewriter.

When members enter Amazon, eBay, or Commission Junction links in their posts, they are automatically rewritten with your Affiliate ID in the link for that particular network.

• eBay links, it adds your Campaign ID
• Amazon Links it adds your Associate ID
• Commission Junction links it adds your PID

You can also have it rewrite posts so keywords or phrases of your choice will be affiliate links from these or different networks. Case sensitivity may be turned on or off in the settings.

A popular use of the keyword rewriting section is to link keywords to the search form of your affiliate's website with your affiliate id this way you can have it search for numerous different product names automatically when they click the link with each search term changed to the keyword.

If you have users with premium memberships who do not wish to see the keywords rewritten, you can disable keyword rewriter for those groups in the settings.

Requires import of a single xml file, no uploads to the filesystem.

[chaoyueh]

Thanks for great mod

I have tried amazon affiliate link and find one problem.

The first link is a working link with one tag-id inside. After using rewriter, it adds one more tag id when the tag-id in the original link does not match what mod has. Therefore, the second link includes two different tag-id which generates conflict and cannot open Amazon web page. The problem only occurs when the link lead to the page with multiple products.

In addition, it seems to me, the mode does not try to replace any tag. However, this function is important since users may copy and paste link from other website which includes their own tag-id. We may want to remove their affiliate information and substitute with our own tag-id.

By the way, do you plan to add Google affiliate and link share? I really love to see these functions.

Again, thanks for your effort.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D284507%26ref%255F%3Dsr%255Fhi%26bbn%3D331401011%26qid%3D1253470179%26rh%3Dn%253A1055398%252Cn%253A%252113900811%252Cn%253A%25211063496%252Cn%253A331401011%26page%3D1&tag=gobun-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=acfgk-20&creative=9325&path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D284507%26ref%255F%3Dsr%255Fhi%26bbn%3D331401011%26qid%3D1253470179%26rh%3Dn%253A1055398%252Cn%253A%252113900811%252Cn%253A%25211063496%252Cn%253A331401011%26page%3D1&tag=gobun-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

[chaoyueh]

find one more problem

When I post an article, the mod rewrites my url but also adds one image (associated with that partner) in front of the link (see attachment). After I edit that article and delete the image, the image does not show up again. Any solution for this problem?

Thanks for your help

[Kolbi]

Keyword Rewriting still doesn´t work for me...

[lilfields10]

I get the error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /forums/includes/class_postbit.php(294) : eval()'d code on line 70

I'm running 3.8.4

Edit: It's not the mod, I forgot to change the .htaccess to enable PHP5 when I upgraded the forum software from 3.6 to 3.8

[pelicanparts]

The header on this page says it's version 2.0.0, but when I download and install from the link, it's only 1.0.0?

-Wayne

[Coop1979]

I'm having 1 of 2 problems with links... either the link does not redirect anywhere and it just ends up being a blank page, or it redirects to a "Sorry, the link you clicked is no longer active" message. Both are using solely the CJ integration.

Thoughts or ideas?

[rootshell-vb]

Thanks for this gr8 mod

[Broso]

hallo,

Have Problems with ForumYield Affiliate Rewriter
When user give link
Example:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=120455304283 oder so http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...=STRK:MEWAX:IT oder so
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...fvi%3D1&_rdc=1
Not work ???

Only this link work. http://cgi.ebay.de/Sport-Fahrwerk-30...item27ac35768a


Can Help PLZ

[mhackl]

I received this email a few days ago. Guess ebay partner network doesn't like this mod. I'm very angry with ebay for not even letting me know that there was a problem first; this is how I funded my site. I've attempted to reply to the email to get more answers, but I've gotten no response as of yet.

[3090-5712111144] Cookie Stuffing Violation- AC20


Dear Publisher,

During a recent review, we found that you have violated the ePN Code of Conduct. We have determined that your promotional method involves stuffing eBay cookies and/or directing users to eBay without their consent. This type of behavior is prohibited. Therefore your account has been terminated and 100% of your pending commissions will be reversed. You are not permitted to rejoin the eBay Partner Network.

As stated in the ePN Code of Conduct section (A), these practices are prohibited.

(A) Non-Bona Fide Transactions:

1.You will not cause any transactions to be made that are not in good faith, including but not limited to using invisible methods to generate impressions, clicks or transactions that are not initiated by the affirmative action of an end user, or using any cookie, device, program, robot, Iframe or hidden frame, pop-up window or any other operation or process that interferes with our ability to properly identify and track transactions.

2.You will not deliver any ePN-related cookies or other tracking tags to the computers of users that are merely viewing your advertisements or while your applications are merely active or open.

3.You will not interfere with or seek to improperly influence the referral of an end user to Participating Sites and Content unless the end user knowingly and explicitly consents to that behavior by taking an affirmative action.

4.You and your Agents will not click on Promotional Content containing your own Tracking Code.

Sincerely,

The eBay Partner Network Quality Team

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[kau]

I would disable this plugin if your running it and rebuild post cache. I removed it until we get updated with the new Ebay impression serving path.