I will try to explain this... Let's use Amazon for an example. And NO I do not want to create an amazon store for this, I like having on page text links...


So say I have 10 products on one page, with amazon affiliate links set to open in new window. So if they click on 5 items, 5 new pages will pop up

Is there a way I can have Every product open in the same window?

So if they click on 3 products, they all go to the shopping cart on 1 window, rather than opening up 3 new windows or tabs.

This is really important for me because as of now, adsense accounts for 75% of my income and affiliate accounts for 25% which I think is way too small so I'm trying to find a way to increase affiliate sales...

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The links probably have a target of _blank at the moment, which forces them to open in a new window.

If you remove the target attribute (or set it to _self), they will open in the current window.

If you change the target attribute to name (where name is any string that takes your fancy*), they will all open in the same, new window.

Edit: I should also have said that you can use as many different names as targets as you like. So if you have an Amazon shop and a Google shop (or whatever), you can use target="shopAmazon" to send all Amazon clicks to one window and target="shopGoogle" to send all Google clicks to a second one.

Alternatively, it's possible you have JavaScript opening the new window (via window.open). In that case, I'd probably suggest removing the window.open and replacing it with a standard link plus optional target attribute so those without JS (and, if it's badly configured, those who Ctrl-click) can use your site.

* Perhaps. You may be limited to [A-Za-z0-9]+ Try a single word if you have problems.

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Thank you very much, so simple...

Do you or anyone else have experience with this on a page? Say I have 20 links to X-affiliate program on a single page.... is it better that they all open in separate windows? Or the same window?

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The advice I've read says that links should open in the current window, reasoning that it's impossible to keep people on your site if they want to leave, and that they should be able to choose whether or not to open a new window. That said, I haven't trialled the alternatives against each other myself, nor do affiliate clicks account for a significant proportion of my income, so I wouldn't take my opinion too seriously if I were you.

If you don't get better advice from someone else here, you could try the alternatives for a month (via a scary global replace ) and see how it affects referrals. I'd certainly be interested in the results if you decide to share.

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