Cloaking affiliate links

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Hi guys, do you know a good way or a WordPress plugin to create an affiliate link cloak with analytics?
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaolinsteve
    Originally Posted by Yuvalee View Post

    Hi guys, do you know a good way or a WordPress plugin to create an affiliate link cloak with analytics?
    Prettylink might be alright. Do you have any tracking in place at the moment? Another way would be to create a index.php file and just put in the following:

    Code:
    <?php
    header('Location: http://YOURAFFILIATELINK.com');
    ?>
    Then whatever directory you put it in would the the extension of your URL. i.e.
    Code:
    www.Yuvalee.com/aweber
    This won't provide you with analytic's but it's a very common method that marketers use.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vendor-Lock
    Hi Yuvalee,

    A quick way to make nice short professional looking links,
    that can't be removed or shut down by link-shrink services like tinyurl....
    is to use "redirects" in cpanel if you have cpanel hosting.

    Login to your cpanel, go to "redirects" then enter a name for redirect folder.
    there is also a drop down menu to select domain if you have more than one domain.

    you can name the folder anything, like perhaps " gonow "

    then you paste in the real link in the link field, and click save.

    Now when you visit " yourdomain.com/gonow " it will redirect to your affiliate link,
    or any other page you want it to go to. You can make as many as you want.
    I often use this method to make shortcut links to a product page, or forum ad such as a WSO,
    or an affiliate link. They look nice, uses your domain, can't be removed by a third party service,
    and they are fast to set up.

    I hope that helps.

    Have a great day toward your online success !

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    Jeff Noyes

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