Vigilink affiliate link showing when not using viglink?

[mariannemarlow]

Forum URL: budgerigarsforum.proboards.com

Hi there

I hope everyone is well.

Someone posted a link to a product that they used (on my forum of course) but the link showed up as "http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&u=http%3A//www.aviform.co.uk/%3Fshop%3Dshopitems/cage.aviary.products/avigold.advance.allinone.liquid.cage.aviary.bird.tonic.1112.aspx"

So as you can see it has a viglink affiliate link in it. They did not post the affiliate part as I can see that when I edit their post.

Why is this here please when I don't have viglink switched on?

Here is their post (it's at the bottom on the thread) budgerigarsforum.proboards.com/thread/15590/avigold-advance-superior-all-tonic?page=1&scrollTo=230531

Thank you

Marianne

[Craig]

Hi

There are two different viglink items on the forum, one you can enable/disable, and one which you can't.

VigLink is a company that helps online websites earn money from their content. ProBoards uses the VigLink Convert service to generate revenue from forums that we host. This forum is eligible to use VigLink's other product, VigLink Insert, to start earning money.

VigLink convert is what ProBoards uses, and will add the affiliate link onto posted links. You can not disable this. The one you can enable/disable, is the viglink insert, which will insert links into keywords within the content of the post, for example, if it see the word 'amazon' it will change that to a link to Amazon.

Enabling VigLink Insert allows your forum to generate revenue that is then paid out to you. When enabled, VigLink Insert examines your forum content and automatically changes keywords into relevant links. For example, the word Amazon changes to Amazon. Revenue is generated when these links are clicked or when products are purchased.

Although you can not disable the viglink convert, you can opt-out of viglink service, and it will not work on any site.