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Old 02-21-2009, 10:58 AM   #1
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Hi everyone,
I have a blog that I am monetizing with affilate banners, mostly clickbank products but a few other affiliate program products. How do I go about cloaking the these affiliate links??

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Old 02-21-2009, 11:09 AM   #2
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Here something I found, haven't tried it myself but it will get you started and it's free!

ø Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress | W-Shadow.com ø

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Eric,
Thank you for the link. That would work for adding links into posts but I don't see how I could use when setting up my banners. That is where I am getting hung up. My banner plugin asks for the url the banner is coming from and then the affiliate link that it is going to. So when someone clicks on the link, BAM!!, there's my affiliate link.
If anyone else can share some ideas I would appreciate it.

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Would it be possible to set up a page and then forward that page to the affiliate url and mask it somehow to hide the link? something like this:
main url http://www.mysite.com then make a page called
http://www.mysite.com/weightloss and that url forwards to the affiliate link and shows up as http://www.mysite.com/weightloss in the browser
next affiliate banner url could be http://www.mysite.com/loseweightprogram etc...

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Old 02-21-2009, 12:04 PM   #5
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Did I miss something???

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Old 02-21-2009, 12:18 PM   #6
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Would it be possible to set up a page and then forward that page to the affiliate url and mask it somehow to hide the link? something like this:
main url http://www.mysite.com then make a page called
http://www.mysite.com/weightloss and that url forwards to the affiliate link and shows up as http://www.mysite.com/weightloss in the browser
next affiliate banner url could be http://www.mysite.com/loseweightprogram etc...

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Hi Robert,

I found this cloaking site Free Link Cloaker but haven't tried it yet and I have cloaking tips on this post here TwitPwr

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there are lots of free link cloakers around the net

just test them all and see which one suits your needs best

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Default Re: Cloaking affiliate links on Wordpress

I haven't found a wordpress plugin that works for banners either so what I do is buy a domain name for each product, forward that domain name (in Godaddy) to the product with masking enabled, and then use that domain name as the link for the banner.

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Thanks Sofia! I think that's what I am going to do.

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Default Re: Cloaking affiliate links on Wordpress

Hi.

You don't need a plugin for clocking a aff link in a banner.

There are a lot of services on the net doing this, and there are no difference in cloaking a link in a banner you put in a blog then a banner you put in another type of websites.

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Try this one...

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I am not sure if this will help you but I found a site where you can change your url's at tinyurl.com.

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Yo Eric - thanks for that Banner Ad Plugin!

Good job
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I use this plugin for cloaking links, and does stats and your able to control the URL to keep it clean.

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I use this link cloaker. It encrypts the link and saves it as a .html file. You just load the file it creates for you onto your server and link to that page on your site. As far as I can tell it's impossible for anyone to see your affiliate link with this.

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Interesting topic, since I have also just started to promote clickbank products through wordpress. I guess once I actually set it up, will have a better understanding of how to do it. Thanks though!
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Thanks ! A Great little cloaker!

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Old 02-28-2009, 08:51 PM   #18
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When I use this cloaker my web site never loads. It looks like the affiliate link and my web site address keep fluttering back and forth. Any ideas. My system uses windows vista. Thanks.
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Thank you for your link post Michael, I been looking for a good way to cloak without purchasing domains, this tool will help me just nicely! Nice post!
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