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The Affiliate URL Converter automatically converts links on your website to trackable affiliate links. The tool is quick, simple, helps you to monetise your website in seconds and means you never have to keep track of your Avelon affiliate links ever again.
- ✅ Saves time – no need to manually update links
- ✅ Safe – links without affiliate programs on Avelon stay unchanged
- ✅ Always accurate – every click is tracked
- ✅ Automatic – updates links in real-time
The tool is especially useful if you have a back catalogue of reviews which just point at websites and are not affiliated – as it will automatically convert every single link (even ones that are like…10-years old) from your site into an affiliate link.
Who is the Affiliate URL Converter for and how does it work?
The Affiliate URL Converter is a free tool designed to help website owners monetise all their outbound links. When you install the tool, it finds outbound URLs and automatically converts them to affiliate links within the Avelon ecosystem.
A good use case is a content creator with a website with lots of links pointing at products that they recommend. Changing these links from standard URLs to affiliate links could take hours, if not days, so the Affiliate URL Converter will instantly change all outbound links to affiliate links.
If you start working with a new merchant on Avelon, the tool will automatically find links to that merchants on your website and convert them into affiliate links. Stopped working with them? It’ll simply turn your affiliate links back to regular links.
The tool can be installed/uninstalled at any moment and it won’t affect the structure of your website. It is a front-end tool, meaning it changes what the viewer see’s on the web page, not what you have posted into your web page. In simple terms, it’s a layer that sits over the top of a link.
If you uninstall it, the URL will simply revert back to the URL you originally posted on your web page.
How to install the Affiliate URL Converter
- Copy your personal code snippet from your Avelon Settings
- Paste it into your website’s header or global code section
- Save changes and publish. That’s it — links start converting instantly
- Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Theme File Editor > select header.php
- Paste the snippet before </head>
- Save
- Go to Settings > Advanced > Code injection
- Paste the snippet into Header
- Go to Settings > Advanced > Custom code > ‘+ Add code‘ > select Head
- Paste the snippet
- Go to Online Store > Themes > Edit Code > select theme.liquid
- Paste the snippet before </head>
- Project Settings > Custom code > paste in Head code
Will the Affiliate URL Converter change every link on my website? Examples of scenarios
The tool will only convert links that have a primary domain matching the program you are a part of. For example: if you are in the Coros UK affiliate program and have a link pointing at https://uk.coros.com/pacepro then the tool will replace that link with an affiliate link.
If you are in the Coros EU affiliate program and have a link pointing at https://uk.coros.com/pacepro then the tool will NOT replace that link with an affiliate link.
If you have installed the snippet and a link has not changed, then check you are accepted into that program and that the link you have on your website matches the domain/url parameters of that program.
For example: if you have the link https://uk.coros.com/pacepro on your website but you are not approved into the Coros UK affiliate program, the link will not convert.
What happens if I remove the Affiliate URL Converter from my website?
If you remove the Affiliate URL Converter from your website, then all your affiliate links will revert back to standard URLs.
This tool is a front end product, meaning that it changes the outbound URL for the user visiting your web page, not on the backend of your website.
Once you remove the Affiliate URL Converter, it will simply stop replacing the URLs for people visiting your website.
If you accidentally remove the tool, you can just re-install it. It’ll automatically convert all links back to affiliate links. No stress!
Does the Affiliate URL Converter work 100% of the time?
The Affiliate URL Converter is designed as a helpful tool to help mass convert affiliate links, but there are a few scenarios when it may not work:
- If the viewer is using the Brave browser
- When the website owner has interfering scripts
- When the viewer is using an ad blocker