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How do you cloak a URL

by aivzdog
5 replies
Hello,

I was reading a post on here the other day that had to be related to url cloaking. I was wondering how do people cloak URL's?

Thanks
Anna
#cloak #url
  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    I use the redirect feature through Optimize Press. It allows the link to appear from your own domain and it links to another site.
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  • Profile picture of the author BrianDouglas
    Yep, Pretty Links Lite for on-site or with your own domain for linking anywhere, or you can use bitly.com, tinyurl.com etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author figgity
    bitly is one way. yourls.org is another self hosted option. there are also lots of plugins available for wordpress.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jo Marketer
      If you aren't using wordpress
      You can use a little bit of php.

      1. open up gedit or notepad++ or whatever you fancy
      2. paste
      PHP Code:
      <?php
         header      ( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
      ?>
      3. Swap out yoursite with your aff link.
      4. Save as newfunkyname.php
      5. Upload to your site
      6. On your page instead of linking to your outside page link to your newfunkyname.php

      Redirected

      Most trackers have cloaking redirects in them. But - be sure people still know where the traffic comes from.

      Track everything
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  • Profile picture of the author tyronne78
    You can do what Joe Marketer does but I like using Ninja Affiliate. I use it because you can manage all of your affiliates links in your WP admin area. You can also cloak your links and create subcampaigns as well.
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