Beta testers wanted for new affiliate marketing super plugin

[MemberWing]

I am looking for beta testers for my new affiliate link cloaker plugin for Wordpress - AFLinker.
AFLinker combines features of Affiliate Link Cloaker, your own URL shortener, SEO enhanced affiliate links generator and redirects manager.
It wraps relevant keyphrases within your posts, pages and RSS feeds into clickable links or clean, cloaked affiliate links - redirects.

You define search patterns for relevant keywords and AFLinker automatically wraps matching phrases and even images with clickable links of your choice.

It gives you a choice to make your affiliate links totally invisible to visitors and completely invisible to search engines essentially giving you immunity from Google (and other search engines) affiliate sites slap.

I used to have to have plethora of conflicting plugins to accomplish all that and decided to write single one to solve all problems at once.

The purpose of AFLinker is to:

• automate clean links creation process within pages and posts
• automate process of making images clickable with your cloaked affiliate links.
• make affiliate links completely invisible
• prevent affiliate commission theft
• gain immunity form Google slap - avoid search engines from penalizing your business model.
• act as your own private URL shortener service for your own domain name
• give you ability to automate and simplify process of launching affiliate site empires.
• includes free extension API specs and code for people to add custom functionality extensions.

Download Beta version of AFLinker plugin for testers here

Gleb

[pcpupil]

Sent ya PM.
Kinda hard not to post a one liner with this.

[globalpro]

Hey Gleb,

I am in and will PM you.

Thanks,

John

[SageSound]

I've never heard of any SE penalties for using affiliate links.

In fact, it makes virtually no sense, mainly because so many sites employ querystring args on their URLs, and the SEs have no way to distinguish if some querystring args represent affiliate links, tracking links, or are just part of a CMS indexing scheme (like how the default Wordpress permalinks are set up).

Sites that use DoubleClick (a Google company), or any of a number of other ad servers and link tracking services, all employ querystring args, and many of them are tied to PPA services. What's the difference between PPA and an affiliate link?

If Google, among others, is penalizing links other than DoubleClick links, because they're somehow tied to payments, that sounds like grounds for a HUMONGUOUS lawsuit!

I think a far bigger problem that you don't even mention is the fact that many of the link shortening services used to "cloak" affiliate links are blocked by many commercial gateways and proxies. For example, I was at a cafe a while back, and while they have free WiFi, their gateway blocked tinyurl.com, among other domains.

I don't think it's smart to "cloak" affiliate links. I think you want to be tracking them instead. And you want to be using a domain you own for that purpose, not somebody else's domain. As a side-benefit, your "tracking links" will effectively act to "cloak" your affiliate links.

(I do use tracking links routinely, whether there's an affiliate link involved or not, and then I shrink them using is.gd. But the tracking links all go through my own domain names.)

-David

[theimdude]

Hi Gleb I will test for you

[steveniam]

This plugin looks interesting for my wordpress blog. Hope it will perform as mentioned. I will be glad to be one of your beta-tester.

I will PM you.

[Martin Luxton]

Hi Gleb,

I'd like to give this a test.

Martin

[MemberWing]

Thanks everyone - download link will be emailed to everyone soon.

David,
good point - I forgot to mention that new plugin could act as your own URL shortener service. For example it's easy to create links like this:
YOUR-SITE.com/cash -> YOUR-SITE.com/top-10-tips-on-making-money-online
or:
YOUR-SITE.com/cash -> MERCHANT.com/?prodid=123&affid=456&tracking=789

Gleb

[jackdeff]

P.M SENT It looks Interesting

[MemberWing]

Beta download links sent.

Gleb

[steveniam]

I have just upload the plugin to my wordpress blog.

I noticed that it take about 30 to 40 seconds for the redirection to take effect. For normal affiliate links it take less than 10 seconds.

Is there any possibility to speed up the redirection?

[MemberWing]

Hi Steven,
I tested it on 2 hosting accounts - no issues with timing.
Its takes fraction of second in my cases.

I think it may have to do with the speed of your hosting account or service.
Send me the URL via contact form I'll check it.

Gleb

[clickobey]

This sounds pretty nice, can I test it out also?

[MemberWing]

Clickobey, yes - grab it here:

Affiliate link cloaker - download

Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.

Gleb

[Innercore]

Hi Gleb
Just downloaded.Thanks for the Plugin.
I was using the Power Link Generator for cloaking.My wordpress site was hacked and I lost my blog.When Iam starting from the beginning,I wondered to look into a Plugin instead of PHP script.
Your plugin comes handy!
Iam just testing it.

[MemberWing]

Hi Gleb
Just downloaded.Thanks for the Plugin.
I was using the Power Link Generator for cloaking.My wordpress site was hacked and I lost my blog.When Iam starting from the beginning,I wondered to look into a Plugin instead of PHP script.
Your plugin comes handy!

Thanks for letting me know! Let me know what you think or if you have any questions or suggestions!

Gleb