Dealing with broken affiliate links

[jvance]

anyone have any tips for mass-editing affiliate links?

I have a fitness site with about 150 articles on it, and many articles have links to merchants. As I have found over time, affiliate links change, merchants leave affiliate networks etc..., so it becomes a real pain to edit a bunch of links on the sites, but because each page is a potential "landing page", I have dealt with it.

Should I be structuring the site differently or is there a way to edit 100 links on different pages quickly?

Thanks in advance.

Jason

[Rosalind Gardner]

Hi Jason,

That depends on what HTML editor you are using.

Most, like Homesite and Dreamweaver have global change functions that let you change all those links with a single click.

The problem there is that you now have to upload all your changed pages to the server.

A better option is to use banner management software like PhpAdsNew or redirection pages that allow you to change the link in one place, and then all your links point to the right site, no uploading required.

Cheers,

Ros