Redirections

Hello,

I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with the redirections in Rank Math. It seems that the link to the affiliate site is still active even though you deactivated it in the redirection section.

To address this issue, you can follow these steps:

1. Navigate to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Redirections and ensure that the redirection for the affiliate link is indeed deactivated. If it is, you may need to check if there are any other redirection rules that could be causing this behavior.

2. If the link is still active on the page, you can manually remove the hyperlink from the word “Schauinslandbahn” in the Gutenberg editor. This should make the word inactive and unclickable.

Regarding your second question, creating a redirect is necessary if you want to cloak the affiliate link and manage it more effectively. While you can manually insert an affiliate link into a word in the Gutenberg editor, creating a redirect allows you to manage and track your affiliate links more efficiently.

If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please feel free to ask.

I hope this helps!

Sources:
How to Manage Affiliate Links Using Rank Math » Rank Math
How to Set Up Redirections » Rank Math
How to Remove a Specific Word From Your Permalinks (URLs) » Rank Math
Random URLs Redirecting Even When No Redirect Was Created » Rank Math

Hello,

Apologies for the confusion, but the word Schauinslandbahn in your post is not a redirection, but a hyperlink/anchor text instead.

Here’s a link for more information:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/anchor-text

An example of a redirect from Rank Math would be like this:

Source: https://advicetravel.info/shauinslandbahn
Destination: https://www.schauinslandbahn.de/

However, since the link on your content is directly added as https://www.schauinslandbahn.de/, there’s no redirection happening.

If you meant to do the example redirection above, then it would be link cloaking:
https://prettylinks.com/blog/link-cloaking-guide-for-beginners/#Link_Cloaking

To do that in Rank Math, you may follow our guide here:
https://rankmath.com/kb/manage-affiliate-links/

Hope that helps.

Hello,

Yes, you would insert the affiliate link in the Destination URL field. Here’s an example:

Source: https://advicetravel.info/go/schauinslandbahn
Destination: https://www.schauinslandbahn.de/en

OR

Source: https://advicetravel.info/go/hotels-in-freiburg
Destination: https://fas.st/ZMQ3Dm

Then when you want to insert the affiliate link, you would insert https://advicetravel.info/go/schauinslandbahn or https://advicetravel.info/go/hotels-in-freiburg instead of the actual affiliate link. This way, the URL your users see is https://advicetravel.info/go/hotels-in-freiburg, but when they click on it, it redirects to https://fas.st/ZMQ3Dm.

We hope this helps clarify the issue. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us again. We are always happy to assist you.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience.

Yes, you would need to insert that link on the sample page you have shared above:
https://advicetravel.info/10-amazing-things-to-do-in-freiburg/

You may need to change the actual link in this line from https://www.schauinslandbahn.de/ to https://advicetravel.info/go/schauinslandbahn

Hope that helps.

Hello,

Glad that helped. We’re just following up with you to see if you have any other questions or concerns that we can assist you with. Or, if your issue has been resolved, please let us know so we can mark this ticket as closed.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation. Thank you for choosing Rank Math.

Hello,

Could you please share the redirect you have created so we can check?

Also, where are you getting the error when you add the /go/ or /refer/?

If you want to share images, you can upload screenshots using this tool and add the link here.

Looking forward to helping you.