What link cloaking tool do you use?

by Ben Roy

Posted: 16 years ago 24 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Are there multiples out there? Which one is your favorite, and why? Or do you not use one at all?

I should mention, I use a Free Link Cloaker that I found on this site a long time ago. I wouldn't say it's very full featured, but it accomplishes the basic task and it's free.

#cloaking #link #tool

Jesus Perez

16 years ago

I am extremely biased. I offer PHP Link Cloaker in my sig. It's web-based, uses a secure MySQL database and has saved my butt once when I sent out a newsletter with the wrong link!

Basically, you buy it and install it on all of your sites. There's a demo if you want to check it out at the website.

Affiliate Link Script - Hide and Track Your Affiliate URL Links with PHP Link Cloaker

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Jamie Iaconis 16 years ago

Hi,

For my cloaking I usually use Web Army Knife.

I like the way it keeps the URL in
the address the same, it doesn't
change over to the real link!

Jamie
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waken 16 years ago

I'm still using free methods to do it. There so many ways that many do not realize..
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e-mail2u

16 years ago

I also use my own link cloaking software not web based but desktop. It creates the cloaked link as a html instead of php page. Just uploaded it to my server and direct the traffic there.

Like blue squares if i mess up the link it can easily be corrected as i have instant access through my FTP account. Using another website to host your cloaked links you do not have that option especially if you send it in an e-mail.

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mario_a

16 years ago

I use Free Link Cloaker too. Simple and gets the job done.

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Mario

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Alan Petersen

16 years ago

I also use Andy Fletcher's Free Link Cloaker and Teli Adlam's Simple Link Manager. The SLM Wordpress plugin is my favorite.

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xmx

16 years ago

I use the simplest one I found.

it is built in in your cpanel, it is the redirect feature.

You simply input a subdirectory in the first field and
the affiliate link in the second one.
You even don't have to create the directory on your
site, it will work loading the final URL of the affiliate site.

cheers,

Gian L.

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martinp

16 years ago

I use Ninja Link Cloaker and find it good. You can probably do the same thing for free but this makes it very quick and easy.

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Great to see so many votes of confidence for Free Link Cloaker.

Thanks guys

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mario_a

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

Great to see so many votes of confidence for Free Link Cloaker.

Thanks guys

Hi Andy,

Since you're reading this can I make a few feature requests ?

1) Editing an existing cloaked link
2) Deleting an existing cloaked link
3) Ability to modify the viewed count

I can do these by editing the database, but it would be much simpler if the script supported these.

Thanks once again for an awesome free piece of software !

Regards,
Mario

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by mario_a

Hi Andy,

Since you're reading this can I make a few feature requests ?

I'd definitely love to improve FLC at some point and these are definitely the #1 requested features but I'm super busy with lots of stuff so I can't make any promises.

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jjpmarketing 16 years ago

I use Mike Filsaime's Power Link Generator and cPanel. I use subdomains redirected to the affiliate link. I don't cloak links because I sometimes feel like the cookies might get lost in the process. That is why I haven't been using ViralURL.com as much. It cloaks the link and doesn't give you the option to just forward the link.
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Tirmizi

16 years ago

well in my time so far in affiliate marketing , I Never used this ... I think those guys who end up buying your product are the ones which doesn't have much idea about affiliate marketing ....

Those who do ... are never gonna buy anyways , they are aware of the tiny url thingi

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LivingCovers 16 years ago

Neither do i. Whoever wants to buy will buy, regardless of whether it's cloaked or not.
If i'm wrong please i stand to be corrected.
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LivingCovers

16 years ago

Neither do i. Whoever wants to buy will buy, regardless of whether it's cloaked or not.
If i'm wrong please i stand to be corrected.

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e-mail2u

16 years ago

Reasons why we cloak links:-

To protect our affiliate sales.
To take those long ugly affiliate url's and shorten them ever seen a rover link.
Link tracking.
Protect from search bots by including a no follow.
Stops the view source method of reveling affiliate links.

Anyone else thing of some more...:confused:

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Dick Doe

16 years ago

Originally Posted by e-mail2u

Reasons why we cloak links:-

To protect our affiliate sales.
To take those long ugly affiliate url's and shorten them ever seen a rover link.
Link tracking.
Protect from search bots by including a no follow.
Stops the view source method of reveling affiliate links.

Anyone else thing of some more...:confused:

I know softwares that do 1,2 and 3 but not sure about no. 4 and 5.

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Michael Silvester

16 years ago

I use My Own!

Click-2-Cloak And its free

It cloaks your link and even FTP's it to your
server in one hit!

Take Care,

Michael Silvester

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bhlehr

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael Silvester

I use My Own!

Click-2-Cloak And its free

So, to use this cloaker, I need to provide you with my name, email address, domain name, ftp username, and ftp password.

Hmmm.... just doesn't sound to kosher to me. :-)

Brian

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by bhlehr

So, to use this cloaker, I need to provide you with my name, email address, domain name, ftp username, and ftp password.

Hmmm.... just doesn't sound to kosher to me. :-)

Brian

If Michael Silvester created it. I'm sure it's Kosher and I'm the competition on this one

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Alan Petersen

16 years ago

Originally Posted by bhlehr

So, to use this cloaker, I need to provide you with my name, email address, domain name, ftp username, and ftp password.

Hmmm.... just doesn't sound to kosher to me. :-)

Brian

I understand why you would be leery but Michael Silvester is a straight up guy. I tested his script a few weeks ago and you get emailed your cloaked link thus the email field. I didn't get any junk or anything else. Slick setup.

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bhlehr

16 years ago

Thanks guys. In business (whether online or offline), it's hard to know who can be trusted. I appreciate your endorsement of Michael.

Andy, I do have yours, which I've been trying all day to get working (even following the video link you posted). It looks like a great program, but my file manager is not cooperating. After setting everything up, when I try to install linkcloaker, I keep getting a message saying "Unable to connect to database." I've even started from scratch with several sql databases, still no luck. My hosting is with godaddy, and I can't seem to find the cpanel on their site. :-(

Any suggestions would be appreciated, otherwise I may have to go with the Australian competition! ;-)

Brian

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Jason K. Thomas

16 years ago

Originally Posted by bhlehr

GoDaddy is tough. The use a stripped down cPanel of some kind. Anyways, make sure your hostname is correct (I don't think it's the typical "localhost" with GoDaddy), and check to make sure your database name is correct. They will always prefix it with something like brian_linkcloaker.

I will also go ahead and shamelessly plug my signature / link cloaker.

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Dick Doe

16 years ago

Originally Posted by hummusx

First, please format your sig properly.

Second, I use Adtrackz which is a paid software. It tracks my links and also cloaks them for me. Feel free to PM me if you need a link.

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