064 – WordPress Redirects for Affiliates and MultiSite

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Joe from Joe-Cannon.com asks: 1. How do I create a 301 redirect? 2. Is there any difference – for affiliate marketing purposes – between using the plugin “Pretty Links” and a 301 redirect?

Code for Single Page Redirect .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /dropbox http://dropbox.com/referrallink

Mike asks: How to create / mask URLs to folders / subdomains while using WordPress MU.
1. Add domain in hosting account cPanel.
2. Change the DNS settings at your new domain registrar (hover, godaddy, etc)
3. Manually install WordPress MU Domain Mapping Plugin.
4. Add this code to wp-config.php file:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

define('SUNRISE', 'on'); // Add this line here:

define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
$base = '/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'localhost' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

1. Save these changes
2. Map the External Domain to One Of your child sites.
3. Under ‘Settings’ -> ‘Domain Mapping’ put the IP address of your server. Find your website’s ip address
4. Save these changes.
5. Next go to the dashboard of one of your child sites.
6. Under ‘Tools’ -> ‘Domain Mapping’ add the external domain which you registered.

Read the entire article here.