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Notes onaffiliate links.
Writing on broken links, creator income, and the occasional product update from the lab.
- Comparison
How to monitor affiliate links automatically: tool comparison + workflow.
Manual link audits work until you have more than 30 links. After that you need automation. Here's the honest comparison of tools that monitor affiliate links. What each catches, what each misses, and the workflow that actually scales.
8 min read·Read → - Insight
Affiliate cookie window explained: how long you have to earn the commission.
A click on your affiliate link doesn't guarantee a commission. The cookie window is how long the buyer has to convert before the credit drops. Here's how it works, what each major network offers, and what to do when the window is too short.
6 min read·Read → - Comparison
10 best affiliate networks for European creators
European creators have access to networks American articles never mention. Daisycon, TradeTracker, bol.com Partner, Awin. Each one covers brands and pricing that Amazon Associates can't match. A practical breakdown of which network for which niche.
8 min read·Read → - Insight
Affiliate dashboards lie by omission. The leak you can't see.
Your dashboard shows clicks that converted. It never shows clicks that hit a 404, a sold-out page, or a stripped tag. The leak in your income is structurally invisible to the tool you trust most.
6 min read·Read → - Feature
Site Sync explained: one line of JS, every affiliate link found in a minute.
Paste one script tag in your site's head. Within a minute, every affiliate link you've ever posted is in Affiliyo. When a destination breaks, update it once. Every page of your site shows the new link instantly. No find-and-replace, no WordPress edits.
5 min read·Read → - Insight
How affiliate links silently die. And how to notice before it costs you.
Affiliate income rarely stops on a Tuesday. It drips away. 3% this month, another 4% next. Until you realize six months too late that your best-performing link has been dead since February.
6 min read·Read → - Feature
Managed URLs explained: one link, every platform, one click to fix.
Bare affiliate URLs look fine until Amazon rotates their ASIN or a program changes its network. Then you're editing videos and re-sending newsletters. Managed URLs turn that crisis into one click.
4 min read·Read → - Playbook
Affiliate audit: the 7-point checklist creators run quarterly
Dashboards lie when earnings look steady. The quarterly affiliate audit creators actually run: 7 things to check, the leak each catches, and the time it takes per link.
5 min read·Read → - Deep dive
Why Amazon Associates links break more than any other. And what to do about it.
Amazon gives creators the biggest affiliate catalog in the world and the most unstable URLs. ASINs rotate, products migrate, regional stores diverge. Here's why Amazon links break faster than any other network. And how to survive it.
7 min read·Read →