cloaking an affiliate link

12 years ago

Use a redirection service such as bit.ly. Or you can create your own redirection script in PHP or some other scripting language. Then when a visitor clicks on you'll link, they'll be redirected to the final destination; in this case, your affiliate url. Naturally, anyone hovering over your link will not be able to see the actual affiliate url in the browser's status bar. They'll only be able to see a link pointing to your redirection url.

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elexmedia

12 years ago

From my experience, the best way is using your own domain redirection...

To do it:
1. Just go to FTP, create a file called index.php
2. Then, put this code in the index php file

PHP Code:

  <?php 
 = ""; //Put the link to your aff in the quotations 
header("Location: " . ); 
exit(); 
?>

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Ed Micah

12 years ago

Originally Posted by elexmedia

From my experience, the best way is using your own domain redirection...

To do it:
1. Just go to FTP, create a file called index.php
2. Then, put this code in the index php file

PHP Code:

  <?php 

 = ""; //Put the link to your aff in the quotations 

header("Location: " . ); 

exit(); 

?>

What he had said is probably the best option; However, if you have wordpress on your site, you can also use the plugin - "Pretty Link" to cloak all your affiliate links using your domain name

My 2c.

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barbling

12 years ago

Originally Posted by elexmedia

From my experience, the best way is using your own domain redirection...

To do it:
1. Just go to FTP, create a file called index.php
2. Then, put this code in the index php file

PHP Code:

  <?php 
 = ""; //Put the link to your aff in the quotations 
header("Location: " . ); 
exit(); 
?>

This is definitely the best idea, but one step I think is missing.

If you use "index.php", you need to create a new directory to put it into (ie, index.php is the default file for any directory).

What I do is simply do the above but not use the name "index.php". I'll create a directory called

learnmore
discover

etc.etc.etc. and then upload the cloaked links into it.

All of the posts at

http://www.dailywsos.com

point to

/discover/month/niche/productname

ie

/discover/dec2011/holidays/uhg.php

Works out grand.

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Colin Klinkert

12 years ago

I use Pretty link often, but I also use my own site, Frank Bauer recommends the worlds largest & fastest growing Link Cloaker, Shortener & List Builder... ViralURL.com - you can join free, and cloak links with the firefox plugin in a couple of clicks, very cool. Also there is a section and code for you to use your own url! The advantage of this is you can see all click stats, while still using your own domain

Hope this helps and I know it is a shameless plug, but no aff link used and it is very useful to many marketers

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jrpt

12 years ago

JVPress Gopages: Free Affiliate Link Cloaker – GoPages | #1 Worpdress Plugin

Free and easy to use.

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Coby

12 years ago

here is the html version of the code...

<html><script>location="websiteurl"</script></html>

you can name the file "product.html" and upload it to your server or name it "index.html" and put it in a folder named "prouct" and upload that to your server...

Whichever you prefer

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ryuchi

12 years ago

When I need to cloak my affiliate links I use tinyurl or bit.ly. It doesn't matter which one you choose though, both works fine. Sometimes I also use a wordpress plug-in which I can't recall, you can easily search for it though.

Ryuchi

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UMS 12 years ago

Originally Posted by ryuchi

When I need to cloak my affiliate links I use tinyurl or bit.ly. It doesn't matter which one you choose though, both works fine.

Actually, it does matter quite a lot as you don't have any control over third party link shorting services. It's quite possible your account can get banned, the service is down or even disappear.
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Ed Micah

12 years ago

Originally Posted by ryuchi

When I need to cloak my affiliate links I use tinyurl or bit.ly. It doesn't matter which one you choose though, both works fine. Sometimes I also use a wordpress plug-in which I can't recall, you can easily search for it though.

Ryuchi

Actually it does matter.

Such as bit.ly - they tend to warn the clicker if they are sure they want to click into any of the clickbank affiliate links...

Correct me if it was only me O_O

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Trevor

12 years ago

There are many ways you can go around cloaking.

You can use a redirect. There are many services you can use. Bit.ly or Tiny URL are two free options I've used in the past.

Or you can redirect via your own domain. For this purpose, if you have a hosting with cPanel, just click on "Redirects" in the Domains tab within your cPanel account and set a redirect for a URL of your choice. This is really simple and straight forward.

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stevet563

12 years ago

What I do is by a domain from Go daddy and forward and mask it. It looks better and more professional than a shortened link from one of the free services. You can select a domain with your keyword phrase in it. Then after you have bought the domain, use the forward and masking feature. Simply put your target url in the appropriate box field and your good to go.

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