Frequently Asked Questions¶

Makes sense. Most teams we work with already have something; they just run into issues when they try to manually add affiliate links one by one, which is time-consuming. Mentionlink complements VigLink/Skimlinks by automatically converting all unlinked product mentions into affiliate links, which is something traditional link converters don't do. Check out the Mentionlink alternatives for more information.

If you had a magic wand, what would you change about your current setup? Let us know by sending an email to hello@mentionlink.com.

No.

Interference could happen in two directions, and both are covered.

Mentionlink only ever adds links to text that is not already linked; it never rewrites, redirects, or removes a link that is already on your page. So whatever your existing link converter monetizes today, it keeps monetizing tomorrow, untouched.

In the other direction, link converters work by rewriting the href of every link they find, which would hand our commission over to them. Every link Mentionlink adds therefore carries the noskim class, which those scripts honor and skip:

<a class="mentionlink noskim" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" href="...">Google Pixel 9 Pro</a>

Each script is paid for its own work, and no click is ever claimed twice. See how Skimlinks documents the opt-out and the Mentionlink vs. Skimlinks for how the two approaches compare.

Yes.

Mentionlink allows you to set a maximum number of affiliate links per page. Additionally, Mentionlink uses AI to link only high-intent keywords, ensuring your carefully crafted editorial content isn't overwhelmed with excessive links. Note that the newly added affiliate links will look exactly like all the other links, through style inheritance.

Mentionlink currently supports the Amazon Associates, Fanatics, and Lids programs. See the affiliate programs for details. Future integrations are planned to be released in 2026.

See the supported countries.

No.

ads.txt (Authorized Digital Sellers) is specifically for programmatic display advertising. It's used to combat ad fraud by listing which companies are authorized to sell your ad inventory.

Affiliate links are direct merchant-to-publisher relationships. They're performance-based (pay-per-sale or pay-per-action.) They don't involve ad inventory or programmatic bidding.

Yes.

The Federal Trade Commission requires you to inform your audience when you have a financial relationship with products or services you're recommending, which includes affiliate links.

Mentionlink can optionally lay an FTC disclosure over a corner of the first photo it adds links to on each page. Contact us to turn it on, pick the corner, or change its wording.

No.

All affiliate links added by Mentionlink have both rel="sponsored nofollow", thus search engines will ignore these outgoing links. Please read more on how Google qualifies outbound links.

No.

The Mentionlink script loads itself asynchronousely and waits till the entire page is fully loaded before converting unlinked product mentions into affiliate links.

The script is minified to about 110 KB, and it's never sent uncompressed to browsers that support compression. Depending on what the visitor's browser accepts, it's served compressed with one of these algorithms:

Through the GitHub CI/CD pipeline, the script is uploaded to an R2 bucket. Then, the script is served through the content delivery network (CDN) of Cloudflare, which is mapped to cdn.mentionlink.com. See Performance for more details.

Yes.

The newly added affiliate links will match the font family, color, style, etc. of your other links on your website in order to blend in.

Yes.

The links, hotspots and product cards Mentionlink adds to your pages conform to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, verified by automated accessibility tests. They work with screen readers and the keyboard, and they reflow on small screens. Please read the accessibility statement for more information.

Yes.

Our Chief Technical Officer (CTO) has 15+ years of software engineering experience working on planet-scale online services. Thus, we have leveraged that expertise to build Mentionlink in a highly-scalable way.

The Mentionlink backend runs on Cloudflare Workers' infrastructure, thus is infinitely scalable as Cloudflare spawns new workers at the edge. The Mentionlink script is served out of Cloudflare's R2 object storage, which is similar to Amazon's S3.

99.9%

We use UptimeRobot to measure uptime; please see the latest status from the last 90 days on status.mentionlink.com.

No.

All affiliate links added by Mentionlink have target="_blank", thus window.opener will return null. This approach instructs the browser to naviate to the e-commerce store without granting the new browsing context access to your website through the window.opener property on the opened window. Please read the MDN documentation on rel="noopener" for more information; please note that rel="noopener" is the equivalent of not setting target="_blank" so that the link opens in the same tab. Mentionlink prefers to open affiliate links in new tabs, thus setting target="_blank" will suffice.

Yes.

Your Mentionlink password is hashed upon storing in the database, so there's no way to reverse engineer the password itself.

No.

Mentionlink does not send any cookies. This can be confirmed by seeing that the fetch call in the script does not set "credentials": "include" in the payload. Please read the MDN documentation on Using Fetch for more information. Furthemore, the HTTP preflight (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) CORS request does not reply with the HTTP header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true, thus the browser will not allow the endpoint to set any cookies for the root domain or subdomains of mentionlink.com. This can be confirmed by using the DevTools in Chrome. Please read the MDN documentation on Access-Control-Allow-Credentials for more information.

Yes.

Mentionlink is patent pending in the United States as well as in some of the 150+ other countries that are part of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT.)

The Mentionlink code is distributed under the PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0. For full details, please refer to the LICENSE.md file in the repository.

Mentionlink can be installed on any website by adding a single line of JavaScript code to your site. For detailed steps, please refer to the installation instructions.

If you're using WordPress, we offer a dedicated WordPress Mentionlink Plugin that simplifies the installation process even further.

Don't have technical resources available? No problem; our team can handle the installation for you at no additional charge.