Using 1 domain to track affiliate clicks and banners?

[NinjaSteve]

How do you feel about this? What affects do you think it has on SEO if any? I'm sure it won't matter to surfers at all.

I'm thinking about using 1 domain to manage affiliate URLs and do banner rotation across a network of let's say 100 domains. Do you feel this a good idea?

[Head Boy]

It makes it easier to switch sponsors if you are careful about the use of copyright content.

I've been doing it in the hope that it will help to reduce affiliate link theft where trojans are installed on surfers computers - You need to be careful with the redirect though. I changed the method, and doubled the click throughs. I posted about it in my chinese traffic experiment thread, but I didn't get one reply. That surprised me, as I thought most people wanted to cut down on traffic loss.

[NinjaSteve]

Thanks for your input. Are you talking about this post?
Something I learnt on my Chinese traffic project might help with the portal project.

[Gasta]

I was also thinking of something like that but wonder if it's not more work for nothing. And it depends on which kid of websites you do, if it's alots of 'build it and forget' I don't think it adds a real value.

[dekaz]

I'm thinking about doing this for my future portal sites. It would definitely make it a lot easier to maintain and keep track of the productivity on the ads. I don't know how it'll affect the seo though.

[Lipshtich Lady]

if you use openx you can see impressions and clicks in one spot and then change links easily

or maybe I am not understanding the question?

[NinjaSteve]

Originally Posted by Lipshtich Lady

if you use openx you can see impressions and clicks in one spot and then change links easily

or maybe I am not understanding the question?

The question is basically...
Use one only domain to manage link codes and have openx installed there.
Let's say it's installed on linksdomain.com

Have unlimited domains (let's say 100 domains for now) using that 1 link code code, so the href is linksdomain.com/sponsor/ which is the sponsor link.

[apcwebmaster]

it's a great idea and especially useful if you want to run a experiments comparing ratios yielded using different methods of promotion, I don't know if openx is free or whatever but if anyone wants to do it the old fashion way you're free to use my tool LinkTrap http://www.peontools.com/download/LinkTrap.exe (I'm not making anything from this program and peontools is an abondoned project for now)

[glowlite]

If putting all your eggs in one basket doesn't bother you I guess it would be OK. If the linksdomain.com server is down for 10 minutes then the links on 100 sites would be also. 100sites x 10min = 16.6 hours of aggregated 'broken links' time.

If your server uptime is 99.9% thats still 8.8 hrs per year per website. link

[RobertFrans]

I have it .. linkdomain.com/out/websitename/ I like it.

Can't see a downside in seo .. on the rest of your urls .. instead linking to sponsor urls you link to your own ...

However .. i'm startting to build small networks .. and I think I will give each network it's own linkout system hosted on the same servers as the small networks.

And have a script pull all info from each network ..

[apcwebmaster]

Originally Posted by glowlite

If putting all your eggs in one basket doesn't bother you I guess it would be OK. If the linksdomain.com server is down for 10 minutes then the links on 100 sites would be also. 100sites x 10min = 16.6 hours of aggregated 'broken links' time.

If your server uptime is 99.9% thats still 8.8 hrs per year per website. link

that is a very good point I hadn't thought about, makes me wonder how easy it would be to setup a backup server possibly on another host for your most important sites

[NinjaSteve]

Originally Posted by glowlite

If putting all your eggs in one basket doesn't bother you I guess it would be OK. If the linksdomain.com server is down for 10 minutes then the links on 100 sites would be also. 100sites x 10min = 16.6 hours of aggregated 'broken links' time.

If your server uptime is 99.9% thats still 8.8 hrs per year per website. link

I never thought of that, thanks for bringing it up.

[Altheon]

I find the centralization a dramatic plus. It allows me to swap a thousand sponsor links in a matter of seconds.

[RageCash-Ben]

I have thought about this over the years but like glowlite says if you ever have a problem with that one domain then all of your income is at risk.

[glowlite]

The theory is great though NinjaSteve.