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Masking and forwarding question

by VanessaB
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,

I was taught how mask and forward an affiliate link (using a line of php I think) with a cpanel redirect.

I haven't done it in about three years, and I can't remember HOW it was done.

I'm trying to set up a redirect on a page on my site, that when the visitor arrives at the site they've been redirected to, the domain looks like a TLD...

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
-Dani
#forwarding #masking #question
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    • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
      Thanks. Will try that.

      -Dani
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Don't use html redirect - it is said to be the favourite method of spammers and search engines, allegedly, don't like it.

    Search for php redirect - you will find the one line code for it
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    • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
      Thanks everyone. Trying different suggestions now.

      -Dani
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      • Profile picture of the author marine1983
        Hi all,

        Im pretty new to all this marketing. My names Chris by the way. This is my first post so I thought I would say hi.

        My question is masking and forwarding. I may be getting confused as to whether this will help me.

        I have bought a domain to my relevant niche I wish to promote in clickbank. I have hostgator as an account with cpanel.

        I have forwarded the domain to the clickbank vendor website. This is fine, but when you look at the address bar it displays the vendors url address with my click bank ID showing. Is there a way to prevent this. I just wish it to show the vendors url.
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        • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
          marine,
          you can use a link cloaker to do that.

          There are some like tinyurl.com and bitly.com that will cloak your affiliate ID,

          but some Clickbank, and other product vendors, actually mask the link for you, so that when your prospect lands on their sales page, it looks as though they are looking at the vendors TLD url.

          I believe there are ways you can do it yourself, with frames, or php, but I'm still searching based on the advice I was given in this thread.

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          • Profile picture of the author JNFerree
            Originally Posted by DanielleS View Post

            marine,
            you can use a link cloaker to do that.

            There are some like tinyurl.com and bitly.com that will cloak your affiliate ID,

            but some Clickbank, and other product vendors, actually mask the link for you, so that when your prospect lands on their sales page, it looks as though they are looking at the vendors TLD url.

            I believe there are ways you can do it yourself, with frames, or php, but I'm still searching based on the advice I was given in this thread.

            -Dani
            I agree with Dani's suggestion.

            Bit.ly will cloak your AFF link and if you get a Key# and link your Facebook account to your Bit.ly account, it will auto post to FB w/ no extra effort.

            Every Saturday I visit Bit.ly and see how many click my links got and the referral source and compare these numbers vs. Google Analytic report.

            I'm a big Bit.ly fan. While 1,300 clicks ain't nothing to wrote home about, like Billy Crystal said to Robert De Niro "it's a process"
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    • Profile picture of the author marine1983
      Hi quick response thanks.

      Im pretty sure I have to use I framing.

      If for exmaple. I forward w.w.w.test.c.o.m to the vendor website, using the affiliate ID.

      It then shows up as

      w.w.wvendorwebisite.c.om/hop=MYID

      I just wish it to display the vendor website as it would look more natural
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      • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
        Hey Chris,
        I remember that my own mentor, big into affiliate marketing, told me she 'framed' her redirect so that it would do you what you are saying you want it to do.

        (Incidentally, that's exactly what I was looking to do when I opened this thread.)

        I would call her, but she just bought a new house and has been extremely busy. She hasn't even emailed me in 2 weeks.

        Now, I know that the Earth4Energy guide on Clickbank provides the masking script for it's affiliates.

        Also, I've seen it done by some vendors who use Plimus' affiliate system.

        But those are both done on the vendors end, so I don't know HOW it's done. You could try viewing the code if you have the knowledge on how to read code, or you could try emailing the vendor and asking them if they can tell you how it's done.

        Sorry I can't be of more help. I'm still trying to research this myself.

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        • Profile picture of the author bretski
          I use 301 redirects using .htaccess

          In the folder for the page or domain you put the .htaccess file that is created with notepad with the text:

          redirect 301 / http://www.you.com/new.htm
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  • Profile picture of the author Hugh
    You can redirect directly from Godaddy. Very easy to do.

    Hugh
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Ash
    I do a 301 frame redirect using namecheap. I just go to URL forwarding and I redirect my domain to my CB hoplink and choose frame redirect. It is really easy. The vendors domain doesn't show on the browser window. Your domain appears there.

    And if someone buys, you are still credited for that purchase. But if you are doing this, test to check that you are credited for the purchase by following your link and clicking the "buy now" button on the vendors sales page.

    When you get to the payment page, just check at the bottom if your CB ID reflects.

    I'm sure GoDaddy has a similar function but I'm not sure!
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    • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
      Eleva,... Thank you! That is probably going to work for what I want.

      But I think Chris wanted the vendors url to display.

      You helped me though! Immensely!

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      • Profile picture of the author bretski
        I wouldn't frame it....you want the browser to be able to bust out of the frame and I believe that I remember reading something about this in CB TOS...I just know that it can screw with the cookie sometimes. We had an issue that was full-time work related where I did this and people weren't able to log into the website that I was forwarding to...caused a cookie issue. Unframed it and did a simple 301 redirect and all was right with the world.
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        • Profile picture of the author marine1983
          Hi,

          Yeah I can mask the vendor url as my own domain name. But is that ethical. I would be basically using his website with my domain name showing in the url address. I dont want to lose any money.

          I assume you mean a redirect with the .htaccess you would take off the backend re direct that you place on with cpanel. And then place code into the file. Would this then display the vendor url with my ID removed?
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