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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => Development, Suggestions => Topic started by: gwill23 on March 17, 2006, 03:03:14 pm

Title: Link Tracking not working with Amazon affiliate links. Help
Post by: gwill23 on March 17, 2006, 03:03:14 pm

I have upgraded to the latest version to make sure that wasn't the issue.

The story:

I want to send links in my email sending my readers to amazon to affiliate links.

Amazon provides me with the following link:

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=gwill23-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0609609491%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1142376587%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8

I enter it into the link tracking and test it and it works great.

I put the !link_xxx in an email and I get the following link in the email.

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http://www.residualenterprises.com/mail/link.php?id=86eb3f9omm

when I click on this link or cut and paste it into a browser it takes me to the error page on amazon.  My other simpler links work just fine.

Example:

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http://www.goodpoliticsradio.com

email gets:

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http://www.residualenterprises.com/mail/link.php?id=86eb3f9gpr

This one works fine.

Title: Link Tracking not working with Amazon affiliate links. Help
Post by: gwill23 on March 18, 2006, 10:07:32 pm

Any ideas on this?

Would someone test these links on their system to see if they get the same problem?

Title: Link Tracking not working with Amazon affiliate links. Help
Post by: DW on March 19, 2006, 06:45:38 am

I'll test this ASAP for the next update which could come out later today.

Regards, DW

Title: Link Tracking not working with Amazon affiliate links. Help
Post by: gwill23 on March 19, 2006, 07:58:26 pm

Found a workaround.  Plz look at it still though it is a pain to setup.

I set link tracking to go to my site and wrote a php script to autoforward to the links amazon provided me.

It works for now but it is slow.

For your testing purposes I have setup a test link in LM Pro that points directly to the amazon link.

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[url]http://www.residualenterprises.com/mail/link.php?id=86eb3f9amtest[/url]

This should take you the the One Minute Millionaire page at amazon.  It doesn't :(.

Thanks for the help.

Title: Link Tracking not working with Amazon affiliate links. Help
Post by: DW on March 20, 2006, 03:11:30 pm

It appears this was caused by the following lines in link.php:

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 $http = urlencode($http);
   // fix : / ? & =
  $http = str_replace('%3A',':',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%2F','/',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%3F','?',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%3D','=',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%26','&',$http);
This translates all characters to be URL-friendly.  I put this in when I started allowing message codes to be entered into links.  The change prevents problems with data containing spaces, etc.  I think I'm going to have to have another look at it.

To disable the feature change

Code: [Select]

 $http = urlencode($http);
To

Code: [Select]

 // $http = urlencode($http);

or

Code: [Select]

 $http = urlencode($http);
   // fix : / ? & =
  $http = str_replace('%3A',':',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%2F','/',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%3F','?',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%3D','=',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%26','&',$http);
To

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/* $http = urlencode($http);
   // fix : / ? & =
  $http = str_replace('%3A',':',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%2F','/',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%3F','?',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%3D','=',$http);
  $http = str_replace('%26','&',$http); */

I'm going to do this in the upcoming update until I figure out how to encode it properly and not break your link. :)

Regards