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cloaking

by cinque8
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I have been using tinyurl.com to cloak my affilate links. Today however, when I test the link I keep getting the HTTP 500 internal server error. What other cloaking services are out there that are good?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Shantelle Golding
    bit.ly is a good one. It tracks clicks in realtime.
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  • Profile picture of the author ours
    goo.gl from Google ..track all click location etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    You might consider running a URL shortener on your own domain so that you don't rely on some free site that could delete your links at any time. There are many free scripts, and plugins for WordPress if you use that.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tony Humble
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      Originally Posted by Dan Grossman View Post

      You might consider running a URL shortener on your own domain so that you don't rely on some free site that could delete your links at any time. There are many free scripts, and plugins for WordPress if you use that.
      I agree with Dan. Running your own URL shortener is much better - another perk is that you are able to modify the destination after you've created the link, so if your link destination dies you can redirect it to something else (completely different). Won't give you too high of a conversion rate, but it's better than wasted (404) traffic!
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  • Profile picture of the author Quality Internet Sales
    I've been using goo.gl lately. I like it a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    Originally Posted by cinque8 View Post

    I have been using tinyurl.com to cloak my affilate links. Today however, when I test the link I keep getting the HTTP 500 internal server error. What other cloaking services are out there that are good?

    Thanks!
    Use pretty links plugin if you are using wordpress....
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    • Profile picture of the author hazyl lee
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      Use pretty links plugin if you are using wordpress....
      I use pretty link and it is pretty much easy to use but not for tracking unless you upgrade your account.
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  • Profile picture of the author cinque8
    Thanks for all of the suggestions, they have been very helpful!
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  • Profile picture of the author aditidatta
    I use Google url shortener(goo.gl) and it is quite good. I think you can try that.
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  • Profile picture of the author centurion81
    I use easy php redirect script...it was a little pricey, but it's great for cloaking.

    It allows you to hide the main URL totally and only display your cloaked URL.

    Andrew
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberSEO
    Originally Posted by cinque8 View Post

    I have been using tinyurl.com to cloak my affilate links. Today however, when I test the link I keep getting the HTTP 500 internal server error. What other cloaking services are out there that are good?

    Thanks!
    Do you need the link cloaking script to run it on your own sites, or you need something to generate the links that you may post to 3rd-party resources (forums, social networks etc)?
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    CyberSEO Pro - the ultimate all-in-one autoblogging WordPress plugin, powered by OpenAI GPT-4, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini Pro, Midjourney, DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion XL
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  • Profile picture of the author Terry Kyle
    Originally Posted by cinque8 View Post

    I have been using tinyurl.com to cloak my affilate links. Today however, when I test the link I keep getting the HTTP 500 internal server error. What other cloaking services are out there that are good?

    Thanks!
    Hi C8,

    If you are using WordPress, this is a good free cloaker:

    Clionpid | Affiliate Link Cloaking

    and I've never had a problem with it.
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