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I’ve been placing Amazon images and hyperlinks on my site for the better part of 5 years without issue.
Two to three weeks ago, I noticed some code that shouldn’t be displayed is now showing to the reader. This happened site-wide on all old and new links.
An example here next to the Enough book image.
Code displaying for the world to see is a small broken image followed by “ir?t=ph0c43 20&l=li1&o=1&a=0470524235”
The full html of the Amazon image / link is:
<a href="http://amzn.to/1pEBPrQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Enough</a> </strong>also happens to be the title of a library book I just finished by John C. Bogle of Vanguard fame. From the Introduction:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enough-True-Measures-Money-Business/dp/0470524235/ref=as_li_ss_il?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459130898&sr=1-1&keywords=enough+john+bogle&linkCode=li1&tag=ph0c43-20&linkId=b1f920bcd3ae3cfc9d1e870a644cfc62" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0470524235&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ph0c43-20" alt="" width="74" height="110" border="0" /></a><img src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ph0c43-20&l=li1&o=1&a=0470524235" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />Deleting the last part (
) would solve the issue, but that would require someone to go in and edit hundreds of articles.
Again, I’ve been using these links for years, and this issue just came up on every Amazon link throughout the site.
Any insight is much appreciated!
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Hi there,
I highly doubt that this is a theme related issue.
Were you able to check with their support first?
Does the same issue occur if you use a twenty series WP theme?
Amazon? Support?!? Ha!
I’ll try switching themes to see what happens.
Sounds good.
SOLVED. It was a setting in Rank Math SEO, which has also been updated recently.
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/rank-math-breaking-amazon-affiliate-image-links/
Thank you for looking at it!
No problem 🙂
It’s always good to do some debugging test like disabling plugins first.
We are pretty confident that the theme itself doesn’t/cannot cause issues like this 🙂
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