How to cloak your ads url on your wordpress blog?

[Jason Zalesky]

I have small 125x125 ads that I would like to cloak the url on. What is the best way to do this without using an tinyurl or something like this?

Thanks,
Jason

[mario_a]

Hi Jason,

I use Free Link Cloaker (not an affiliate link)

Regards,
Mario

[Luisc137]

Wow, I didn't even think about doing that on my blog but I do believe its a bit unattractive to click on a link that you know only leads you to an affiliate site.

Thanks for the idea.

[Metro123]

Thanks I signed up for this. I was also wondering about this and have reviewed several paid options.

[Chris Monty]

I use cloakreferer.com. It's free...no registration required.

[jjpmarketing]

You could get Mike Filsaime's Power Link Generator. This way you can cloak the link and track click throughs.

[Quentin]

You ncan also go into your Cpanel and do a redirect in there which looks more professional so it ends up looking like yourdomain.com/preferswhatever.htm

Quentin

[Michael Silvester]

Hi Mate,

I use my own free online service
Click-2-Cloak

No opt-in or registration required!

Take Care,

Michael Silvester

[grumpyjacksa]

thanx

i needed this info as well

[Abledragon]

I just create a new folder (directory) in my domain, put the re-direct code into the new index.html (or.php) file and change the affiliate link to point to the new directory.

That makes it look like another page on my site: www.mysite.com/newfolder

Cheers,

Martin.

[Chris Monty]

You could also use WP-Affiliate-Pro plugin. This will automatically insert your affiliate links for keywords that you specify. This is not free, however, it works great.

[magentawave]

Originally Posted by Tom Borowski

I can recommend two methods - a free one and a paid one:

1) Free link cloaking (needs PHP on your web server)
- Create a file on your server and give it the extension .php (e.g. http://www.yourwebhosting.com/address.php)
- Add the following code (replace the URL with whatever address you want the ad to link to):

<?php
    header ("Location: http://www.server.com/?affid=1234");
?>

- Link the ad image to the file you created in the first step

2) Paid method
Fellow warrior Teli Adlam sells Simple Link Manager:
Affiliate Link Redirect and Cloaking Script - Simple Link Manager (not an affiliate link)

SLM offers click tracking and you can give your URLs whatever name you like. So, for example, the URL

http://www.whatever.com/greatoffer

can redirect to

http://www.greatoffer.com/?affid=1234

HTH
Tom

I went to buy that simple link manager you mentioned above but it seems she isn't selling it anymore. Her site is still up but there is no order page.

Steve

[getsmartt]

GoCodes wp plugin is great for this and free GoCodes Redirection Plugin For Wordpress | Webmaster-Source it lets you build links directly in wordpress and cloaks them so thek look like
yourblog/go/whatever

Another cool wp plugin for affiliate linking is aLinks from http://headzoo.com
it wil replace any word or phrase in your blog with a link - also free