How to Cloak Your Affiliate Link

[James Seward]

Hey Warriors

I was just wondering if it is possible to cloak your affiliate link? If it is can anybody teach me how to do?

Thanks
James

[Tony Dean]

Download the Profit protector it is freeware, at:- Profit Protector

Then upload the html page it makes to your web host in the same folder as your files.

[James Seward]

Originally Posted by Tony Dean

Download the Profit protector it is freeware, at:- Profit Protector

Then upload the html page it makes to your web host in the same folder as your files.

Hey

That was fast! Will give it a try!

Thanks
James

[xiaophil]

Originally Posted by Tony Dean

Download the Profit protector it is freeware, at:- Profit Protector

James, be aware that this tool creates a framed redirect. Depending on your vendor, this may be against their TOS as well as putting your commission at risk.

A simple redirect via .htaccess or PHP may be all you need.

[freemoney]

You can replace long URL's with cloaked links or short, server-side redirects so that people won't feel pitched and won't be turned off by links that are obviously affiliate links. There are several ways to create clean links that you can use to direct buyers to your sales pages. Read through the description below and see which one meets your needs and fall within your skill level.

1. Directory Redirect

Connect to your web server and create a properly named directory. Then create an index.html and put a redirect code in it.

2. Sub-domain Redirect

Most web hosting providers allow you to have several sub-domains. Simply log on to the control panel, set up your sub-domain and then set up the redirection.

3. Redirect Script

Several scripts are available out there that you can install on your web page to protect and redirect your links. You may need to put the code between the head section.

4. .htaccess

This is only recommended for advanced users because it involves modifying the .htaccess file on your server. Here's how to do it. Create a properly named directory. Put a file called .htaccess by creating it using a text editor. This file should contain the Redirect command, the location of the directory you want redirected relative to the root of your site and the full URL of the location you want that request sent to.
You can find all the above mentioned codes for free. Do your research and then implement it to see how it works. I have put a link for downloading a free e-book containing these codes on my blog.
Besides creating redirect pages, you can cloak your affiliate links using commercial software programs or services. Listed below are popular ones on the market.

5. Software Programs:

Affiliate Link Cloaker and LinkGuardII. These two programs take your long, ugly link and mask it with a redirect link.

This only the suggestion. i hope this idea can help you.
good luck

[fogarty23]

can anybody tell me how to use affiliate cloner. i put my affiliate link it. short the url. then create. i uploaded it but it didnt work. any body have the step proccess. i would really appreciate it.

[matthewd]

You can use PrettyCloak

[James Seward]

Originally Posted by freemoney

You can replace long URL's with cloaked links or short, server-side redirects so that people won't feel pitched and won't be turned off by links that are obviously affiliate links. There are several ways to create clean links that you can use to direct buyers to your sales pages. Read through the description below and see which one meets your needs and fall within your skill level.

1. Directory Redirect

Connect to your web server and create a properly named directory. Then create an index.html and put a redirect code in it.

2. Sub-domain Redirect

Most web hosting providers allow you to have several sub-domains. Simply log on to the control panel, set up your sub-domain and then set up the redirection.

3. Redirect Script

Several scripts are available out there that you can install on your web page to protect and redirect your links. You may need to put the code between the head section.

4. .htaccess

This is only recommended for advanced users because it involves modifying the .htaccess file on your server. Here's how to do it. Create a properly named directory. Put a file called .htaccess by creating it using a text editor. This file should contain the Redirect command, the location of the directory you want redirected relative to the root of your site and the full URL of the location you want that request sent to.
You can find all the above mentioned codes for free. Do your research and then implement it to see how it works. I have put a link for downloading a free e-book containing these codes on my blog.
Besides creating redirect pages, you can cloak your affiliate links using commercial software programs or services. Listed below are popular ones on the market.

5. Software Programs:

Affiliate Link Cloaker and LinkGuardII. These two programs take your long, ugly link and mask it with a redirect link.

This only the suggestion. i hope this idea can help you.
good luck

Hi,

Thanks for taking your time to write such a compreensive "guide". I will start by trying the software programs as they do seem to be easier to work with (yes you guessed I am not very tech savy )

Best
James

[askmichaelknowles]

I use Mike F.'s Powerlink generator. It works great for me and you can change the target anytime you want and leave the link you created

Michael

[rtrotter]

In your .htaccess file you can create a line like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /ads/adsredirect.php

Then your adsredirect.php file would look like this:

$refer = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL'];
if ( strpos($refer,"My-Best-Product") !== false ) {
$redirect = "h t tp : www . whatever.com/?affid=1234";
}
elseif ( strpos($refer,"Another-Super-Product") !== false ) {
.............
.........
header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK');
header('Status: 200 OK');
header('Location: '.$redirect);

Doing it this way allows you to create any link you want for the URL such as yoursite.com/My-Best-Product that actually does not exist and then it get directed to your 404 page and gets redirected based on above script. The status will be 200 not 404.

Sorry if it looks messy because I don't have 15 post yet if would not allow me to write anything that looked like a link but does not tell you the offending code so just had to play with it.

Rodney