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Creative link redirection

by Julia Russo
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I just saw a blog that had links to its sponsors but instead of the target site's url at the bottom of my screen when I hover over it, I saw the blog's url .net version with /xya that then seamlessly directed me to the sponsoring site.
Is this easy to do? It would seem that the .net site would have a page with a redirect to the sponsor. I like the idea. The url shows up as part of the blog's page structure--which would effectively "cloak" an affiliate url address.
Has anyone seen or done this?
#creative #link #redirection
  • Profile picture of the author James Gould
    Was the original URL a .net too? Or had the owner of the site purchased the same domain name but with the .net extension and used that to redirect traffic to sponsored links?

    I suppose it's the same process as cloaking them through "xyz.com/redirect/go.php" type of links, whereby the user enters a page that's connected to the home address (xyz.com) but then redirected to an affiliate link (yzx.com/?ref=123) from the go.php page.

    Hope this makes sense, kind of hard to explain if I'm honest.

    Jamie.
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    • Profile picture of the author Julia Russo
      It was a site with .com version and the sponsor link to the .net version but taken directly to sponsor. So I imagine a page on the .net version of the site being redirected to the sponsor. I can only suppose that this is for reports of clicks to that sponsor through the .net page redirect. It would serve the purpose for making a click count to report to the sponsor so they know how much traffic came from the ad.
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      • Profile picture of the author Cram
        prettylink allows you to track the clicks.
        and also makes it look like from your own site with /xya
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  • Profile picture of the author adsassist
    You can get a link cloaker.

    Have the link say what ever you like and redirect to any URL/link.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    Yes just create a hyperlink. It is done all the time - you can redirect people where ever you want.

    It looks like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author imsolutionsgroup
    Here is a great tool that will do exactly what you're looking for - easyredirectscript.com
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  • Profile picture of the author vjboc
    If you go to this page. http://www.search.qpricing.com/m~c-l...ers~b-462.aspx
    and hover over "Go to Store" link. You will see qpricing.com/products The products are dynamically generated. Here is the code: <a <%=Target()%>name="P<%=i%>" href="http://www.qpricing.com/products" onclick="gotoclick(this, 'P<%=i%>', '<%=Target(False)%>')" title="<%=Product.<merchantName>.Value%>" rel="nofollow">Go to Store</a> It is done with onclick.
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