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Comment on What Affiliates and Merchants Should Know About Pinterest Links by Cathi

Cathi — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:04:11 +0000

Quick catch-up…just run past my uncloaked links and Pinterest has removed my affiliate id from the link even though it is there in the URL box. I checked this by following the link through to amazon and then checking the link stats in amazon…any clicks on my link are not registering on my amazon stats.

Hmmm….

Comment on What Affiliates and Merchants Should Know About Pinterest Links by Cathi

Cathi — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:45:36 +0000

Not sure how fast everything is moving over at pinterest – but this is what I’ve found over the last few days. If I cloak an affiliate link via Tiny or pretty link (wp-based cloacker) then it will not be accepted by pinterest and does get marked as spam or inappropriate content. However, if I leave the link as is eg an Amazon link, then it seems to accept it.

My Amazon links haven’t been up long enough for me to notice if they’ve replaced them – but they have labelled as spam or inappropriate content, ALL of the cloaked links.

As I type this I’ve just replaced a ‘spam’ link with it’s uncloaked version and the ‘spam’ tag has magically disappeared.

I think their link swiping policy goes a little deeper than just swiping unmarked images, so I’ll be watching my uncloaked links very closely to see if the mysteriously disappear.

If Pinterest is a link farm, from an seo stand point it may be advisable to limit the amount of links pointing back to your own sites.

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Baby Toys — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:48:58 +0000

I like the Chinese Yo Yo and also the deluxe chattering teeth. They are just fun!

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Comment on What Affiliates and Merchants Should Know About Pinterest Links by Lisa Braithwaite

Lisa Braithwaite — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:40:46 +0000

I personally don’t care if Pinterest makes money off of affiliate links, but I do care if they strip MY affiliate links, which is what they did. My Amazon Associates code was indeed stripped from my links before I knew this was an issue. Once I discovered it, I went back and tried to replace Pinterest’s links with my own, but couldn’t do it. Now I’ve changed my affiliate links to tinyurl.com links, and those are working. In the future, I’ll try posting the way you’ve described it here. Problem is, people repin my links so fast sometimes!