Remove aff id from clickbank landing page?

[Intrepreneur]

I've seen this done hundreds if not thousands of times where when you clik through on a clickbank aff link upon landing on the page there is no affiliate ID on the end of the url on the salespage.

Now it has me wondering how do I do this?

[Hamida Harland]

I use Ninja Link Cloaker - Advanced Affiliate Link Cloaker

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by Hamida Harland

I use Ninja Link Cloaker - Advanced Affiliate Link Cloaker

Thats exactly what Im looking for.

Thanks.

[Stefan Vee]

The easiest way to do this is by setting a cookie, then just link to the sales page.
It's against clickbank TOS, but since the "Ninja" is sold through CB, I am not sure if they are using the cookie approach as well...

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by Stefan Vee

The easiest way to do this is by setting a cookie, then just link to the sales page.
It's against clickbank TOS though.

Mmm it seems by readin the salespage of ninja cloaker that it is quite the same idea as setting a cookie so I would be breaking TOS.

hmmm

[avenuegirl]

You can do some forwarding and masking with a domain that you own. The new domain will appear in the address bar, but no affiliate link.

[jasonl70]

"forcing the cookie" is not interfering with tracking if you do it correctly, so should not be a problem with CB's TOS. This is an example of legitimate "cookie stuffing".

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by jasonl70

"forcing the cookie" is not interfering with tracking if you do it correctly, so should not be a problem with CB's TOS. This is an example of legitimate "cookie stuffing".

WOW nice information... Im not sure I know how to do this tho.

Anyhow, I have another question about this and I just wish I could find the page I seen it on..

I seen a link that didnt seem to be generated by any cloaking software..

It was the clicbank vendors salespage URL..

hyyp://thesalespageurl.com/aff?=id

It wasnt exactly like that but I seen this a few times and when clicking through there was no awful =affid at the end of the salespage URL...

Anyone know anything about that technique?

[Michele Miller]

I think you'd like Affiliate Cloner, it has a special feature for Clickbank links as well. It's very popular. You can find it at: http://www.affiliatecloner.com (not my affiliate link).

Michele

[jasonl70]

Originally Posted by Intrepreneur

WOW nice information... Im not sure I know how to do this tho.

Anyhow, I have another question about this and I just wish I could find the page I seen it on..

I seen a link that didnt seem to be generated by any cloaking software..

It was the clicbank vendors salespage URL..

hyyp://thesalespageurl.com/aff?=id

It wasnt exactly like that but I seen this a few times and when clicking through there was no awful =affid at the end of the salespage URL...

Anyone know anything about that technique?

You can do this with a 2 step process. here's how I've done it in the past:

I used the typical forwarding script in a 'recommends' directory on my site.
But here's what I do differently. instead of using a php server side redirect, I use a client side redirect set on a 3 second timer (you can use javascript, or a meta refresh). On the redirect page, I have 'please wait while we redirect you' type of message along wiht an animated 'scanning' type of gif image. During that 3 second pause, I force the CB cookie to the browser (google search on 'cookie stuffing' to see how). For the redirect, you can just use the normal sales page link.

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by jasonl70

use, I force the CB cookie to the browser (google search on 'cookie stuffing' to see how). For the redirect, you can just use the normal sales page link.

This is cool, but the seconds wait is still pertaining to be an issue for me..

The reason being is because I've seen it done better where there is no wait and you don't see the redirect page at all..

But other than that, very sound advice.. Im just testing it here now.

[pjCheviot]

How about ReDirect-A-Link - Hide your links and keep your commissions!! ?

[CJontheweb]

I don't like the idea of a link cloaker because then it will have the link cloakers link, well least all the ones I've tried did.

[Brandon Tanner]

This is easy to do with a little bit of Javascript. Simply paste the following bit of code into the <head> section of your landing page...

<script type="text/javascript">
var yourdomain="http://www.yourdomain.com";
var url=top.location.toString();
if(url.indexOf('hop')>-1){
   top.location.href=yourdomain;
}
</script>

Be sure to change the part in red to your actual domain name.

[tommygadget]

Originally Posted by Brandon Tanner

This is easy to do with a little bit of Javascript. Simply paste the following bit of code into the <head> section of your landing page...

<script type="text/javascript">
var yourdomain="http://www.yourdomain.com";
var url=top.location.toString();
if(url.indexOf('hop')>-1){
   top.location.href=yourdomain;
}
</script>

Be sure to change the part in red to your actual domain name.

What exactly does that do? I am unfamiliar with these variables and am too lazy to look it up

TomG.

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by tommygadget

What exactly does that do? I am unfamiliar with these variables and am too lazy to look it up

TomG.

I don't think it does what Im asking for.. looks to be for the people who own the salespages not the affiliates directing to the salespage.

[Brandon Tanner]

Originally Posted by Intrepreneur

I don't think it does what Im asking for.. looks to be for the people who own the salespages not the affiliates directing to the salespage.

Correct. To my knowledge, unless you use frames (which are against ClickBank's TOS), it's not possible to do this from the affiliate side.

@ Tom G...

The script simply looks to see if 'hop' is contained anywhere in the incoming URL, and if so it simply rewrites the URL shown in the address bar to www.yourwebsite.com. This works great, because it still allows cookies to be set.

[jasonl70]

Originally Posted by Intrepreneur

This is cool, but the seconds wait is still pertaining to be an issue for me..

The reason being is because I've seen it done better where there is no wait and you don't see the redirect page at all..

But other than that, very sound advice.. Im just testing it here now.

I used the delay just to make sure the cookie actually has a chance to get set. I also had some other tracking code on the page I used for creating dynamic TID's, so again I had to make sure it had time to execute.

You could test shorter delays, and leave the page blank.

[jasonl70]

BTW- while testing some other things, I did notice that not all hoplinks end up appending the aff id onto the url of the landing page. It's been a while since I set up a product in CB, and I've only done it once, but I'm thinking there's an option to have various data forwarded to your landing page like this.

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by jasonl70

BTW- while testing some other things, I did notice that not all hoplinks end up appending the aff id onto the url of the landing page. It's been a while since I set up a product in CB, and I've only done it once, but I'm thinking there's an option to have various data forwarded to your landing page like this.

Thats an interesting find, I thought that as sometimes my links dont transfer that information either and they haven't been setup in any specific way.

I just found the perfect solution to the problems and it was exactly the way I wanted to do the whole time, a .cgi file that uses the vendors id and automatically does to that page straight from my own URL.

Very cool, I like it.

[Zanti]

Would you care to share your solution?

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by Zanti

Would you care to share your solution?

Zanti I've been using this.

PHP Affiliate Jump Script - How to create an Affiliate Link jump script in PHP

[jasonl70]

that just looks like the normal php redirect.. it won't drop any of the appended values of the aff link

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by jasonl70

that just looks like the normal php redirect..

Yup but it doesnt have any delay which is great and it means all my affiliate links are in one place if they ever need changed..

Give it a go, you'll like it and how simple it is.

[jasonl70]

the method I was talking about with the delay was specificly to set the cookie before the redirect happened (which requires a client side redirect), letting you use a clean, non affiliate link for the redirect itself - so "there is no affiliate ID on the end of the url on the salespage"

If you don't need all the junk dropped off the end, then yes you can just use a normal 'server side' php redirect.

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by jasonl70

the method I was talking about with the delay was specificly to set the cookie before the redirect happened (which requires a client side redirect), letting you use a clean, non affiliate link for the redirect itself - so "there is no affiliate ID on the end of the url on the salespage"

If you don't need all the junk dropped off the end, then yes you can just use a normal 'server side' php redirect.

I found a nice cgi script you might want to use instead.. that is extremely simple to use.

With the jump script it is cool for linking to pages that do no append your affid on the end of the url.

[halcline]

Hi,

This code is not working for me. Page just ends up as blank and does not forward to the clickbank page.


any ideas what the problem could be?

hal

[Intrepreneur]

Originally Posted by halcline

Hi,

This code is not working for me. Page just ends up as blank and does not forward to the clickbank page.


any ideas what the problem could be?

hal

Which one are you using the jump script or the cgi script?

[Dmitry]

Originally Posted by Hamida Harland

I use Ninja Link Cloaker - Advanced Affiliate Link Cloaker

Can you give an actual working example of a link cloaked with the Ninja script?

[halcline]

It's been a few days. and I dont' know which script I'm using. What its doing is fowarding to the Clickbank product page, but my hop=clickbankName is still training off the domain.
how can I hide this?

hal