How To Hide Your Affiliate Links

bigcullie 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Vanquish

You can use a .php redirect

I will send you one.
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bydomino 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Vanquish

You can use a .php redirect or a url shortening service like TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL

I used to use tinyurl all the time but now I use bit.ly so I can track my shortened links
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JeffMitchell

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Vanquish

You can use a .php redirect or a url shortening service like TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL

Definately go with the php redirect....Because the traffic stats comes to you. So say that you are using a php redirect from your blog url. All that traffic to your affiliate links also makes your blog look better..

Jeff Mitchell

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Mohammad Afaq

14 years ago

Originally Posted by JeffMitchell

Definately go with the php redirect....Because the traffic stats comes to you. So say that you are using a php redirect from your blog url. All that traffic to your affiliate links also makes your blog look better..

Jeff Mitchell

I do something like this and it is generated by a software:

http://mohammadafaq.com/recommends/freesoftware.html

This way the visitor never gets my affiliate link so my commissions don't get stolen. I don't know what it's called but I can PM you the details on how I do it.

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chandan_dutta

14 years ago

You can do the following way:

For example productA you are promoting.

Step1. Create one HTML file as below and give name as - index.html

<html>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://zzz.xxx.hop.clickbank.net/">
<title>productA</title>
<body>
<script>
document.location.href = "http://zzz.xxx.hop.clickbank.net/";
</script>
<div align="center">
<font color="#000000" size="2" face="tahoma">
<b><font size="4">Loading productA</b>
<br><br><br>
Please wait...</font>
<br><br><br><br>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Step2: Create a Folder in your host and give it the name of product. In this case productA

Step 3: Upload the index.html to folder productA

Step 4: Now the link will be http://yourdomain.com/productA/

Please note you should not miss forward slash(/) at the end.

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Rashm31

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Brekat23 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rashm31

I've PM you - let me know if you got it

No, I'm sorry I didn't recieve a PM yet.
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Frankly

14 years ago

good lesson for me. thanks

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duia

14 years ago

An URL shortener service is a good choice if you want to hide the Affiliate links.
By the way, you can find many tips through searching in the Warrior forum.

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Frank Donovan 14 years ago

Originally Posted by duia

An URL shortener service is a good choice if you want to hide the Affiliate links.

You just need to be aware that sometimes a company providing a URL shortening service may shut down or be otherwise unavailable.

In such an instance, assuming you actually found out about it, you'd have to change all your affiliate links individually. And if you've built up a lot of these for many products on various sites over a long period, that's a major PITA.

You don't have that worry if you're hosting a cloaker on your own server, or using a simple re-direct script.

Frank
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- Brekat23 14 years ago
  
  You don't have that worry if you're hosting a cloaker on your own server, or using a simple re-direct script.
  
  Frank
  
  Ok, so going off of your post Frank, how can I get my hands on one of these 'cloakers' or 're-direct scripts'?
  
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winebuddy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Brekat23

Hey guys,

Just another quick question...could someone please explain to me how I can hide my name in my affiliate link when someone clicks through to the product page?

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She could be referring to the customer actually arriving at the sales page and the affiliate ID is right there in the address bar.

If this is the case, unless the seller has done it for you, there's no way to do it without making a replica sales page with the sellers payment button with your affiliate link already in it.

Mike

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Brekat23

14 years ago

Originally Posted by winebuddy

She could be referring to the customer actually arriving at the sales page and the affiliate ID is right there in the address bar.

If this is the case, unless the seller has done it for you, there's no way to do it without making a replica sales page with the sellers payment button with your affiliate link already in it.

Mike

Yes actually, my affiliate link looks alil like this: http://www.affiliatesite.com/index.html?mv_pc=myname

How can I make this link look like this instead:

http://www.affiliatesite.com

just that? is that possible...I want to keep it exactly as it is, just hide everything after the .com

Haha...please let me know if anyone knows how I can manage this, also, preferably if there is a way I can do this on my own for free through use of free software, or scripts, or whatever the answer is.

Thanks guys

Bre

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Adam Roy

14 years ago

well if you're using wordpress, install the "pretty links" plugin.

makes your link as unaffiliate like as it can be. www.yourdomain.com/loseweight loseweight being whatever you want that particular aff link to read as.

Great plugin.

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Brekat23

14 years ago

Originally Posted by friend

well if you're using wordpress, install the "pretty links" plugin.

makes your link as unaffiliate like as it can be. www.yourdomain.com/loseweight loseweight being whatever you want that particular aff link to read as.

Great plugin.

Thank you kindly for that suggestion, I wasn't aware of that. However my site isn't wordpress based, its like an actual website type deal. :rolleyes:

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W2L

14 years ago

Originally Posted by friend

well if you're using wordpress, install the "pretty links" plugin.

makes your link as unaffiliate like as it can be. www.yourdomain.com/loseweight loseweight being whatever you want that particular aff link to read as.

Great plugin.

Thats what I use in my wp blogs... and for static and other CMS I do a jumpscript... sort of like:

mysite.com/keyword.php?id=identifier-for-this-affiliate-program

This comes in very handy because you could redirect "the redirect" to a central location and if you are managing several sites you could change your links across the entire network in a matter of seconds....

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jasonmorgan

14 years ago

another option for wordpress is gocodes

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Mountainmotorman

14 years ago

Get a GO CODE and it is done for ALL you issues.... it is SIMPLE to do and SIMPLE to make...

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lerxtjr

14 years ago

Yes actually, my affiliate link looks alil like this: http://www.affiliatesite.com/index.html?mv_pc=myname

How can I make this link look like this instead:

http://www.affiliatesite.com

Technically, no one has addressed this direct question. To make a big long affiliate link become a domain name, you need to register a new domain name and then use the "redirect" feature (usually free) and then activate the "masking" feature (usually free) so that when a visitor gets to that domain name, the domain name stays in the address window. This technique is best used when promoting direct to people in email or in a book or in person like if you're doing a live workshop or something. For example, I've had BestDomainPlace(dot)com for years. It simply re-directs to my domain reseller account that has a long crazy url.

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foxtrot3

14 years ago

Anybody use framing?

Link cloaker tool

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