Find all affiliate links in a custom CMS
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I have a custom CMS. I offer a few affiliate products through my site. Now I need to update all my aff. links and I'm not sure how I can find all the pages (posts) on my site that have affiliate links. What's the best way to do that?
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.htaccess processes requests received by your webserver. It doesn't process HTML sent to the client, so it can't affect those affiliate links.
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Hey,
As Jane mentioned - .htaccess can't change the HTML content of your pages, so you can't replace all the links that would be seen by a user or a browser.
If the links are via a redirection page on your site then you can use .htaccess to redirect those requests elsewhere, so when a user clicks a link it takes them somewhere else instead, but only if those pages are on your site.
Make sense?
Good luck!
-Tom
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Hi Vince,
.htaccess can't change the HTML of the webpage, but I am not sure if it can rewrite outbound clicks. I'll reach out to other other contributors to see if anyone has a shortcut way of updating these links. I am seeing it mentioned online that you can do this, but I would like some verification from the team.
Cheers,
Jane
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Afraid I can't help you with that one. Sorry!
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Thanks guys, that makes sense. I'm doing what you suggested now. Once I find all my pages with affiliate links, is it possible to use .htaccess so that it requites those links automatically? Basically, it should go to a specific page, find the link I define, and change it to a new one. Is that even possible with .htaccess?
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I would agree with Andy. Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a good tool for this. Just check all the "In Links" from the external urls you need to find on your site.
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Probably the best way to track down all the pages, would be to use Screaming Frog Spider. Put in the URL and leave it to go.
The free version crawls up to 500 pages with the paid version being unlimited.
-Andy
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