ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin

I've been using Thirsty Affiliates for about 2 years and it's fan-freaking-tastic. It delivers on the promise. Clean URLs that I can remember and easily share.

The features of ThirstyAffiliates tidies up the look and tracking of affiliate links.

Thanks for making this so awesome!

Works.

I like to keep my links hidden, so even when I send people to a company from somewhere else, I send them to the link through my site using ThirstyAffiliates.

Create simple external links in the easiest way possible.
Thanks for the time saved! ;)

I've tried several affiliate tools. Thirsty Affiliates is the best. It has all the features I need, and it's easy to use. And the customer support is great.

I'm a very happy user of TA Pro, with a single exception.

The 404 Checker feature, which is in theory extremely useful if you have hundreds of affiliate links to products in fast-changing industries (as I do), literally only detects 404 Not Found errors for target URLs.

The problem with this is that there are several valid HTTP codes that might be used when attempting to reach a URL which is no longer valid. One in particular is the 401 Gone error, which many retailers use to keep pages for discontinued products online. It's a valid use case for this error code. Unfortunately TA does not detect or report such URLs, instead reporting them as valid. This means I still have to manually run every target URL through an external link checker on a regular basis, which is enormously inefficient when this paid plugin could achieve it automatically with a few lines of code.

I've made several feature requests to TA's developer over the last year and been told it'll be 'considered for future releases', which I interpret to mean it's too much work. Considering that payment is partly meant to help fund plugin improvements, I thought a 4-star public review might jog things along.

As previously mentioned, all other aspects of the current version of TA Pro are indispensible to me as a blogger managing an extensive affiliate linking operation.

This makes it way easier to create and track cost-per-click deals with brands!

Outstanding support. Whenever I've had an issue Nevena from support has been on it. Very professional and knowledgeable!