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How to cloak your ads url on your wordpress blog?

by Jason Zalesky
14 replies
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
#ads #blog #cloak #url #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author mario_a
    Hi Jason,

    I use Free Link Cloaker (not an affiliate link)

    Regards,
    Mario
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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author Metro123
      Thanks I signed up for this. I was also wondering about this and have reviewed several paid options.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Monty
        I use cloakreferer.com. It's free...no registration required.
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        • Profile picture of the author jjpmarketing
          You could get Mike Filsaime's Power Link Generator. This way you can cloak the link and track click throughs.
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          • Profile picture of the author 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
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            • Profile picture of the author Michael Silvester
              Hi Mate,

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

              No opt-in or registration required!

              Take Care,

              Michael Silvester
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              • Profile picture of the author grumpyjacksa
                thanx

                i needed this info as well
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                • Profile picture of the author 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.
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                  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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              • Profile picture of the author magentawave
                Originally Posted by Tom Borowski View Post

                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):
                Code:
                <?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
                Code:
                http://www.whatever.com/greatoffer
                can redirect to
                Code:
                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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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