Old-to-New Agoda Link Converter

Description

A free tool, exclusive to Agoda Affiliates

Text links are the best and most proven way to drive high-converting traffic to your booking pages. Which is why we’re making it easy for you to update your text links today and maintain maximum monthly bookings by monetizing your existing and new blog posts.

The Old-to-New Agoda Link Converter is a simple plug-in that instantly converts old affiliate link structures to new link structures.

New links are better than old ones
We’ve improved the Agoda affiliate link structure to:
* Provide stronger tracking, by running all traffic through a proxy server that provides a secure place for measurement and data protection
* Improve conversion by linking to live-optimized landing pages, such as a top search results page instead of an underperforming city page

Features

• Works for existing and new posts

Copyright

Old-to-New Agoda Link Converter WordPress plugin, Copyright ? 2017 Agoda Company Pte. Ltd. (Agoda.com)
Old-to-New Agoda Link Converter is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see also above URL; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Screenshots

Installation

First installation: local download

1. Download the zip file from this page
2. Login to your WordPress dashboard
3. Go to Plugins >> Add New, under Install Plugins title click on Upload and use the browse button to search the .zip file you have downloaded at point 1.
4. Once activated you can customise your settings under Agoda Site Configuration
5. The link conversion by the plugin will happen automatically for existing posts and upon saving for new posts

First installation: download from WordPress repository directly

1. Go to Plugins >> Add New
2. Type Agoda or Agoda Link Converter into the Search Plugins field
3. Download Old-to-New Agoda Link Converter plugin

Subsequent upgrades

1. Just upgrade using the plug-in panel

FAQ

Installation Instructions

First installation: local download

1. Download the zip file from this page
2. Login to your WordPress dashboard
3. Go to Plugins >> Add New, under Install Plugins title click on Upload and use the browse button to search the .zip file you have downloaded at point 1.
4. Once activated you can customise your settings under Agoda Site Configuration
5. The link conversion by the plugin will happen automatically for existing posts and upon saving for new posts

First installation: download from WordPress repository directly

1. Go to Plugins >> Add New
2. Type Agoda or Agoda Link Converter into the Search Plugins field
3. Download Old-to-New Agoda Link Converter plugin

Subsequent upgrades

1. Just upgrade using the plug-in panel

What is the Agoda Partner Program and how can I join?

With access to 1,350,000+ properties worldwide, the Agoda Partner Program is the leading hotel affiliate program worldwide. Our program combines best-in-class tools, best prices and a proven ability to convert traffic with high commission on hotel bookings. All features of our affiliate program, from our multicurrency and multi-language support to our tools, are designed to give you great tools to convert and monetize your traffic.

Simply go to https://partners.agoda.com/en-us/register.html and complete the registration form. Please make sure you have read and accepted the Agoda Affiliate Agreement before submitting your registration. All applications are subject to a review process before access to the partner program is granted.

Can I use the plugin even if I’m not an affiliate yet?

Yes, it’s possible. You don’t need to be an Affiliate Partner to implement the plugin, but you could start earning commissions today becoming our Partner. Sign-up now.

Reviews

NO NO NO Do not install!

somethingsomething April 6, 2019

Not only did the plugin stop working properly, it stopped pages that had hotel links and some other random pages from rendering. This completely killed rankings of these pages which once ranked between position 1-3 in many searches. Not only missing out on potential booking income but natural traffic.

Needs speed/login improvements. Promising future.

chris53186 August 24, 2017 1 reply

Update: Plugin developer fixed the minimum link issue. Looking forward to the upcoming speed and logic update. Increased from 1 to 3 stars. Not enough granular control. We wanted our links transferred over as our bookings have suffered greatly since Agoda switched their link structure, but we didn’t want any additional spammy links added. ?P?u?t?t?i?n?g? ?”?0?”? ?a?s? ?”?M?a?x?i?m?u?m? ?l?i?n?k?s? ?p?e?r? ?p?a?g?e?”? ?d?o?e?s? ?n?o?t? ?s?t?o?p? ?t?h?e? ?t?o?o?l? ?f?r?o?m? ?i?n?s?e?r?t?i?n?g? ?t?o?n?s? ?o?f? ?l?i?n?k?s? ?i?n? ?e?v?e?r?y? ?p?o?s?t?/?p?a?g?e?. They even allow it to place links in the very first paragraphs, on your home page, and in bolded text. It also misfires and creates broken links from partial text that belong to bigger words. Our favorite was linking to a non-existent Agoda page from “Fest” in the word Festival…every time it was mentioned in the post. We switched to 1 link and that seemed fine until we discovered that if we wanted to change the plugins chosen link to a different one that it’s impossible to do so within the post edit page. It doesn’t show that there is a link in the edit area whatsoever. It’s either take what they give you or nothing. Our site is now also running extremely slow since making the update and sometimes timing out altogether. It’s clear it adds some extra load to every page. I’m worried that the damage is done even after I deactivate the plugin. There isn’t enough documentation discussing how limited this plugin is.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0

• First release

1.1

• Second release – readme.txt

1.6

• Added category exclude
• Optimized speed
• Better country conversion

1.7

• Removed destination keyword replace functionality