You Can Now Control the Order Your Affiliate Links Appear — Here's Why That Matters
Affilio now supports manual destination ordering — drag the links into the sequence you want, and that's the sequence your audience sees. Optimize for commission rates, seasonal promotions, or conversions.
If you manage product pages with multiple affiliate destinations, you've probably run into this: your highest-converting link ends up buried at the bottom of the list because that's the order you happened to add them. There was no way to fix it without deleting and re-adding links, and even then, the order wasn't guaranteed.
That changes today. Affilio now supports manual destination ordering — drag the links into the sequence you want, and that's the sequence your audience sees.
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The Problem With Unordered Affiliate Destinations
A single product in Affilio can point to multiple destinations. A camera you recommend might have an Amazon link, a B&H Photo link, and a direct brand link. Each of those serves a different audience: some readers prefer Amazon for the fast shipping, others want the best price, others trust the brand store.
The order those links appear in your storefront isn't just cosmetic. It shapes which option a visitor clicks first. If your best-converting destination — or the one with the highest commission rate — is sitting third in the list, you're leaving performance on the table. And until now, you had no control over it.
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What's New: Drag-and-Drop Destination Ordering
In the product editor inside Affilio's admin app, the "Selected URLs" list now has drag handles on each row. Pick up a destination, drop it where you want it, and Affilio saves the new order immediately.
That order is then reflected everywhere:
- In the admin UI — the list stays in the order you set, so what you see is what your audience gets.
- On your public storefront — the Public Storefront API returns affiliate links in your defined order, so the rendered page matches your intent exactly.
The reordering happens atomically. There's no partial update state where one part of the platform shows the old order while another shows the new one. When the save completes, the order is consistent across the board.
A few guardrails worth knowing:
- Reordering preserves each link's visibility setting. If you had a destination marked as hidden before the reorder, it stays hidden after. The drag-and-drop only changes sequence, nothing else.
- The UI disables further drags while a save is in flight, so you can't stack conflicting reorder operations.
- If something goes wrong on the API side, the UI reverts to the previous order automatically.
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Three Scenarios Where This Makes a Difference
Scenario 1: Prioritizing by commission rate
You promote a software product that's available through three affiliate networks. The commissions differ significantly between them. Previously, the network that happened to be added first sat at the top. Now you can put your highest-commission destination first without any workarounds.
Scenario 2: Seasonal promotions
A retailer you work with is running a Black Friday sale. You want that link to show up first for a few weeks, then deprioritize it in December when their sale ends. With manual ordering, you can update the sequence to match the promotion calendar and move it back when the deal is done — no link deletion required.
Scenario 3: A/B intuition testing
You have a gut feeling that one destination converts better than another. Move it to the top of the list, run it for a month, check your analytics, then reorder again if the data suggests a different sequence. It's not a formal split test, but for creators making decisions based on click data, this kind of quick adjustment has real value.
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How to Use It
1. Open any product in your Affilio admin dashboard.
2. In the "Selected URLs" section, you'll see a grip icon on the left side of each destination row.
3. Drag rows into the order you want.
4. The change saves automatically — you'll see a brief loading state on the handle while the API confirms.
That's it. No form submission, no save button to hunt for.
The feature is available on all plans — Free, Boost, and Professional — so there's no upgrade required to access it.
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The Practical Takeaway
Destination order is part of your affiliate strategy, not just a list-management detail. Whether you're optimizing for commission rates, aligning with a promotion, or simply putting the most trusted retailer first for your audience, that control should be in your hands.
Log in to Affilio, open a product with multiple destinations, and try the reorder. If you've been managing link order by deleting and re-adding destinations, this replaces that entire workflow.