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.

[Huy Ho?ng]

Uninstall because used for 4.0

[kevinmanphp2]

Originally Posted by robdawg

This mod should be removed immediately. This is definitely against the TOS for eBay and all other affiliate networks.

Already had one user's account terminated from eBay. Maybe we need a couple more before this becomes a problem. But cloaking or changing links to make it look like something else is not going to fly with eBay and they are quick to terminate accounts.

Could you elaborate as to why you think this is against the TOS of affiliate networks? This isn't link cloaking... it's link masking.. which isn't against the rules...

Would you mind elaborating a bit on your stance or the TOS's? Thanks.

[ketusa]

im waiting new update for my vbb4 forum. pls do it

[kau]

I have updated some of the parsing on eBay links and also noticed lately that I have to try multiple advertiser id's for advertisers on CJ to make sure it will go to the correct URL when you click on it (one advertiser can have multiple AID numbers, so find the right one or their URLs wont work.)

[Jdubz31]

I keep getting white-pages on my links? Any clue what this could be? or what I am missing?

[kau]

I have updated some of the parsing on eBay links and also noticed lately that I have to try multiple advertiser id's for advertisers on CJ to make sure it will go to the correct URL when you click on it (one advertiser can have multiple AID numbers, so find the right one or their URLs wont work.)

....?? Also, sometimes CJ Advertiser ID's that you get working will break and you have to update them. I don't mean put in multiple numbers of AID's for one advertiser into the program, you put one AID per CJ Advertiser, but the AID must work and there are multiple ones, and some don't work.

[kau]

With keyword rewriter, if your testing it, do not enter one keyword per line, you must have them between other words so it can determine the keyword based on it having spaces on each side. If there was no space checking, it would rewrite partial words.

[creativepart]

Keith, I'm still having problems with the Ebay Rewriter and I'd like to disable Epn rewrites and use another rewriter. Can you advise how to remove just the Ebay part and keep the CJ and Amazon rewrites????

Thanks

[creativepart]

For those worried about EPN TOS and this mod it is NOT in any way against their policies. I've used this and others for a couple of years now. I have a EPN rep of my own and he has told me personally that Ebay is fine with this kind of Rewrite mod.

What would be against their TOS is anything that set an EPN cookie on a users system when the user doesn't actually visit Ebay. IN other words. If a cookie was set just by visiting a post in VB with an EPN link -- and if the cookie was set from within VB and not from within Ebay. THAT would be against EPN's TOS. But if a link in a VB post takes the user to Ebay's website and the cookie is set only when the user clicks that link within VB then they are fine with that.

I hope that distinction makes sense. Using this or other EPN rewirte mods DOES NOT get anyone banned from EPN. But there are plenty of other things you could do that will indeed get you banned.