If you have a Text Link Ads account, you probably have a referral link placed somewhere on your website, if not multiple places. If this applies to you, TLA is making your life a little harder. According to their e-mails going out, they are replacing your current referral link with a TinyURL link, which can now be found on your account.

What does this mean? Obviously, you will need to go through and update any of your referral links on your website or in your feed. If you have it placed all over, this can be quite a project. Another problem is that all old posts you’ve done that reference your old referral link will be dead links next Friday once this change happens.

What is the lesson to be learned from this? Those of us that hid our referral links using a redirect have it easy. In my case, all of my old posts and all of my links on my site link to http://www.slickaffiliate.com/go/tla.php. That means all I have to do is quickly update my .php file with my new referral information and I’m all set!