Affiliate Links - Open in New Window or Same?

By Simon Slade
Affiliate Links - Open in New Window or Same?

 

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This weeks question from Renato: When building an affiliate website should affiliate links Open in new window or same?

Mark recorded a quick video explaining his thoughts on best practices for opening affiliate links for your visitors. Enjoy!

New or Same Window, whats your preference? Let us know in the comments below.

11 Comments
manuel cadag 14 years ago
Thanks for this info, it helps me with my under construction blog site.
Tony Jallit 14 years ago
I usually make the page open in a different window too. But I don't think it makes much of a difference either.
marco harkema 14 years ago
well, i caught my self allot when there is a site, that has a link, an doesnt open a new window. when i have readed it i clik the close button, and than i lost the site. and i not always want to search for the site again. so i think it is better to open a new window. so people will not exedently cloe the YOUR site
Rich Beagle 14 years ago
How would I go about it as opening a new frame without leaving the site?
ampie_g 14 years ago
@Beager You can open your links open in a new window by setting target = "_blank". Check out this forum post https://www.affilorama.com/forum/post19505.html
Jeam 14 years ago
Thank you for the info this info helps my site.
amadeus schneider 14 years ago
i've signed up for the affiliate program and can not see my affiliate id. also how it works, is it trough click bank or what? thx so much and looking forward to hear from you
ampie_g 14 years ago
@onlyamadeus You do need to enter your Clickbank ID to complete the registration as an affiliate of Affilorama. You can do that here https://www.affilorama.com/affiliates
If you need further assistance, please email us at [email protected].
joe 14 years ago
thanks for the info. I was always unsure how to handle this.
GlobeSpot.Net 14 years ago
in new window is a good solution, main page is still open too
VeryCoolCases (for iphone, ipad, ipod, etc!) 12 years ago
I always make my affiliate links from photos or text open in a new window, though each time I do I wonder to myself if that's the way I should be doing things.

My logic is the same as yours, Mark, that since I have multiple links or products on a page, I prefer readers to stay and browse longer. Plus, since the internet is so distracting, if they get lost on the site that opens in a new window for a few minutes or even hours, when they close that window, my page will still be there as a reminder of what they were looking at before they got distracted! (Based on my own experience of internet ADD of course :)

It's much less likely that they'll come back to my site through the back button or not if they've spent a lot of time browsing since they left.

Thanks for the video!