It seems as though last weeks announcement of new affiliate links for Text Link Ads is now being looked at again. Bloggers including myself were questioning the change, and more importantly the tight timeframe for the change but it looks as if they are taking another look at the situation:

This is the email one of my readers, Yehuda Berlinger, got from them after trying to get clarification on the new tinyurl links:

“We are working on a better solution and will have it available next
week. You do not need to make any changes.

Jonathan Dingman
Product Manager”

I would imagine the new solution will not use tinyurl and will revert back to the original text-link-ads.com domain. Its not hard to shorten the URL using the same method that tinyurl uses. Its only one line of code to do a quick hash of the affiliate parameters. Perhaps theres something I’m overlooking?

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