Photo by Billy Alexander

A friend of mine had just finished an e-book which she will sell. She has links in her book some going to affiliate products and others are just web sites and miscellaneous relevant links. She asks if all links in the book should be redirected or only affiliate links. What a great question!

Generally, I prefer to redirect any links I want to track. Affiliate links are a given of course because you don’t know when the affiliate program may be closed or if they change systems which means your links will no longer work once they switch. If it’s a link to Google or something similar, I rarely redirect them. However if the link goes to my social network profiles or links to relevant articles, I like to track stuff like that to see how interested people are in those topics.