Affiliate network · Skimlinks
What is a skimresources.com link?
Short answer
Yes, and often without the writer having created the link by hand: Skimlinks turns ordinary product links into affiliate links automatically.
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How Skimlinks works
Publishers add one Skimlinks script to their site and it rewrites outbound merchant links at click time, routing them through go.skimresources.com or redirectingat.com. That is why a link that looked like a plain shop URL in the article suddenly passes through a tracker.
- id identifies the publisher account; url holds the destination the article originally pointed to.
- xcust is the publisher's custom sub-id, often the article or page that produced the click.
- Because the rewriting is automatic, individual links may have been monetised without a per-link decision by the author.
The domains Skimlinks uses
Any of these in an address bar means the same thing. Subdomains count too: the part in front is usually an account number.
- skimresources.com
- redirectingat.com
- skimlinks.com
The parameters to look for
- id
- url
- xs
- xcust
- sref
skimresources.com: common questions
What is go.skimresources.com?
Skimlinks' click tracker. A publisher's script sends outbound merchant clicks through it so an affiliate commission can be attributed.
Why is redirectingat.com in my URL?
It is the other hostname Skimlinks uses for the same purpose. Seeing it means the link you clicked was monetised.
Did the author choose to make that link affiliate?
Not necessarily link by link. Skimlinks works site-wide, so the decision is usually made once at the site level rather than per link.
Other redirects you might be looking at
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