Tinyurl for cloaking hoplinks?

[Liam Hamer]

Is this a safe way to protect hoplinks and do any of you do it? Seems pretty straightforward and simple to me, but wanted to ask anyway

[Liason]

It should be ok for what you need. I thibk that actual cloaking software or even having a domain that you mask and forward is even better.

[Hackbridge]

Originally Posted by Crubalo

Is this a safe way to protect hoplinks and do any of you do it? Seems pretty straightforward and simple to me, but wanted to ask anyway

There are few ways you can do this. Clickbank actually cloak the links for you now, with CB products.

I have a download cloaker I can send, which you can either create an encrypted page for your website, or it can create a link for a webpage but the link will say whatever you want it to.

You could use bit.ly, a simple url shortener to shorten the links which will also tell you how many people click on the link.

There are probably many more but those are the ones I use. Let me know if you would like to use the software I mentioned and I'll send you the file. It's an exe, but it's perfectly safe

Brian

[Liam Hamer]

Originally Posted by Hackbridge

There are few ways you can do this. Clickbank actually cloak the links for you now, with CB products.

I have a download cloaker I can send, which you can either create an encrypted page for your website, or it can create a link for a webpage but the link will say whatever you want it to.

You could use bit.ly, a simple url shortener to shorten the links which will also tell you how many people click on the link.

There are probably many more but those are the ones I use. Let me know if you would like to use the software I mentioned and I'll send you the file. It's an exe, but it's perfectly safe

Brian

That's really kind of you, send away! Let me know if you need to send it via E-Mail or whatever.

[Glenn Leader]

I would advise you run your own private
service. If TinyURL or any other service
decides to close their doors, you'll be left
high and dry. The are lots of scripts out
there that can do this for you.

HTH

Glenn

[morry]

You can do it that way, but I prefer to use PHP redirects. It takes 10 seconds once you learn how to do it. There's a video on my site that shows you how to do it or you can just go and google it, it's a much better way to cloak your links.

Sean

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Crubalo

Is this a safe way to protect hoplinks and do any of you do it?

I don't do it.

I'm not suggesting that their service doesn't work, but (a) there are better methods, and (b) depending unnecessarily on the continued existence and reliability of such services perhaps isn't the best way to set up and run a business (look at the scare people using "tr.im" have recently had, even if that one's more or less resolved now).