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Can anyone see any issues centralising affiliate links across a network?

Example - many of us would use some kind of redirect from our sites like

abc.com/go/afflink1
bcd.com/go/afflink1

using either htaccess, php or javascript to redirect to the affiliate site

But as your network of site grows - to change a link involves visiting 40 sites to change each of the files in the "go" folders.

Would there be any net effect from using an otherwise vacant domain to host the links - so they only need to be changed in one place?

Example
abc/go/afflink1 links to afflinks.com/1 which then redirects to affiliate site
bcd/go/afflink1 links to afflinks.com/1 which then redirects to affiliate site

So all your links across the network for afflink1 would point to your afflinks.com/1

Any changes only require changes to one file afflinks.com/1

Assuming there is nothing else on afflinks.com - would there be any issues? Assume all links no followed and afflinks.com noindex.

AND.... our redirects have been in place for some years using javascript,php or .htaccess. What is the current best practice for redirecting affiliate links?

Thanks Moosa

I hadn't considered that way of handling the issue.

SEO-wise is that a good tactic or is it best just to salvage something from the train wreck?

yeh - they weren't in directories - they were top level - so the old urls are like

xxxx.com/wanted_ads.php

xxxx.com/featured,option,auctions_show/

There's over 1000 of them so I was hoping to do a mod rewrite that would 301 them all to the home page without breaking the wordpress rewrite rules.

Hi all

I had a phpprobid site which was heavily indexed but got hacked.

I have deleted the old site and installed wordpress and a holding page.

I can't work out how to 301 redirect all the old indexed pages to the home page without the existing wordpress redirect.

Anyone care to help?