Linking Directly To A Product

[party_pete]

Which way is best?

Both these links to products work, but after reading through various other posts there isn't a definitive answer.

LINK ONE http://www.ukhenandstag.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PRODREF=21838&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.ukhenandstag.co.uk/acatalog/&NOLOGIN=1


LINK TWO http://www.ukhenandstag.co.uk/acatalog/L-Plates_Banners.html#a21838

Opinions appreciated...........

[Neilo]

Pete,

We used to use LINK ONE until we hard coded our product list after reading the threads about google and links going through the cgi bin.
We now use LINK TWO as this does not go through the cgi bin, and is also alot easier to type.

Cheers,
Neil.

[pinbrook]

I think the difference is only crucial if you have customers logged in, in which case you would need to use the first

[basket case]

I have been following various threads regarding the best way to link directly to products and wasn't sure which of these methods was the best to use - however, I can't get either to work anyway!

I am currently trying to use

Click <a href="http://www.blueberrybarn.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PRODREF=DESSERT01a&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.blueberrybarn.co.uk/acatalog/&NOLOGIN=1"> here </a>

Can anyone see anything obviously wrong with this or provide any other suggestion as to why it doesn't work.

Many thanks
Tracy

[basket case]

Sorry, I should have said that what actually happens is that the link just takes you to the top of a page of products (when the product is actually near to the bottom of the page)
Tracy

[wjcampbe]

The Product reference is either a91, a92, a93 or a94 - look at the finished code on the website for <a name= tags - these are the links that are available for use.

[basket case]

In this case the product I am trying to link to is the Just Desserts Basket - the product reference is DESSERT01a (as assigned by us). The references you mention above do not relate to actual products but to fragments. However these do work as anchor links! I have since abandoned the cgi-bin method and am trying what I hoped was a simpler method - Click <a href="http://www.blueberrybarn.co.uk/acatalog/Gourmet_baskets1.html#aDESSERT01a"> here </a>for more. This still only links to the top of the page. Am sure I must be missing something very simple here!!

[Duncan Rounding]

The last link you quoted:
<a href="http://www.blueberrybarn.co.uk/acatalog/Gourmet_baskets1.html#aDESSERT01a"> here </a>
works fine.

[Mike Hughes]

Seems to be working now although you also have changed your templates. My thoughts were that you must have removed the <a name...> tags from the product template so if you go back to your own look then that's the thing to watch out for.

Mike

[basket case]

Thanks everyone ... not sure what's different but it does seem to work with the new templates, so that's one problem less to deal with!

[antnb]

Hi

Can anyone please advise. I am using one product per section method, and link directly to the main product through advanced link [LINK] with some text "View full product details".

How do I make the image 'clickable' so this also directs to the main product? as customers naturally click on this first.

I have tried:


<a href=http://www.mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?
PRODREF=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE&NOLOGIN=1 TARGET ="_SELF">
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBEGINLINKNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE
</A>

and


<a href=http://www.mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?
PRODREF=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.mywebsite.com/acatalog/&NOLOGIN=1">Click Here</A>


the first adds an additional image and the second the words "click here" Both are 'clickable' but I get the error message " A General Script Error Occured" the input is null.

How do I make the existing image work, and keep the text [LINK] as well?

[Bruce]

A simple link like this where you navigate to the section where the product is and copy the url, then add on the product refrence (#+prod ref) as shown in the example below should work

<a href="http://www.yoursite.co.uk/acatalog/your_page.html#xxxxxx">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE</a>

placed around the product image variable as shown above will be sufficient.

Kind regards,