403 Forbidden for Booking.com affiliate links (via CJ)

Hi @andrew-strikis,

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble there.

We haven’t encountered this issue before and we would appreciate it if you could provide a sample link from CJ affiliate to test this on our end.

If you have sensitive information, you can drop a support ticket using our support form here: https://thirstyaffiliates.com/support/support-request-form.

Thanks in advance and I’m looking forward to your response!

Hi Ray, thanks for the response.

I’ve uploaded a few screenshots to this Google Drive folder showing what happens in sequence: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jdKFmr-4MQGsuqOTShbyL769NGfylc8E

This is the Booking dot com link: https://www.booking.com/hotel/au/macq-01.en-gb.html?

This is the resultant CJ code for the Booking dot com link (I try saving this code in TA and it gives the error message): https://www.dpbolvw.net/click-8973893-12010968?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fhotel%2Fau%2Fmacq-01.en-gb.html%3F

Thanks for looking into this, and I look forward to hearing from you

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I’ve checked the links but I’m not able to replicate the issue you are experiencing.

I would suggest doing basic debug, by disabling your other plugins except for ThirstyAffiliates and switching your theme to Twenty-Nineteen. Then test if the issue would still persist. If not, then continue enabling the plugins to see which plugin is the culprit.

Please make sure to have a backup of your site before you proceed.

I hope this helps! Let me know how it goes!

Best regards,

Thanks Ray. I’ve worked out what the problem was. It was as simple as me accidently including the ‘?’ in my url when generating the affiliate link. As soon as I removed that it was all good.

Cheers!
Andrew.