Making a wordpress page redirect to an affiliate link (how to cloak)?

13 years ago

You could set up a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file by inserting the following:

redirect 301 /pagename http://www.affiliate-link.com

You only need the page permalink (or, if your page is in a directory like blog then /blog/pagename) as the originator, but the full affiliate URL (including http://) as the destination.

Be sure to take a copy of your .htaccess file before you make any changes so you can restore the original file should anything go wrong.

Cheers,

Martin.

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MichaelG469 13 years ago

I'm confused. I'm in my cpanel and in the file manager, but don't see that file
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trishworks4u

13 years ago

how I do it:

make empty html page, in your example: pagename.html

add this:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.youraffiliatelinkhere.com/?id=send$2trishworks4u">
</head>
</html>

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MichaelG469

13 years ago

Originally Posted by trishworks4u

how I do it:

make empty html page, in your example: pagename.html

add this:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.youraffiliatelinkhere.com/?id=send$2trishworks4u">
</head>
</html>

Worked awesome...anyway for it to refresh quicker so that the blank page doesn't show up first?

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trishworks4u 13 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelG469

Worked awesome...anyway for it to refresh quicker so that the blank page doesn't show up first?

they always work fine for me. could be a server speed issue.

I also paste my google analytics code right above this. - only other thing on the page.

That way I'm tracking hits on this page via GA - as well as which keywords are converting best, etc.
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AceOfShirts

13 years ago

I use the Pretty Link Plugin. Works simple and you don't have to mess around with cPanel. There are probably plenty of redirection plugins out now, but I'll stick with PL.

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sodevious

13 years ago

Better yet - here's my untestd theory.

Make a page in WP called 'go' (or whatever you want)

Next, install the plugin called 'Page links to'.

Make another new page, this time as a child of go.

Instead of adding content, add the title and then at the bottom, there should be a box asking if you want the page to redirect somewhere else (because of the plugin). Paste your aff link. Now, when the visitor goes to myblog.com/go/aff-page they will be redirected to your aff link!

Sounded so perfect in the shower

I would like to see if it would work though.

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AceOfShirts

13 years ago

Looks like we were typing at the same time so you might have missed my earlier post. Pretty Links will do everything you are looking for very easily and track the number of clicks.

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MichaelG469

13 years ago

I wasn't sure if Pretty Links Lite was what you were referring to or not...

I found a plugin that works really well. It's called Quick Page/Post Redirect and its looking good.

Question though, whats the difference between a permanent 301 and a temporary 302?

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AceOfShirts

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelG469

I wasn't sure if Pretty Links Lite was what you were referring to or not...

I found a plugin that works really well. It's called Quick Page/Post Redirect and its looking good.

Question though, whats the difference between a permanent 301 and a temporary 302?

Yes, the Lite is what I am using. Just use whatever works that you are comfortable with and know how to use.

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sodevious

13 years ago

Wanted to share my method anyways

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John Trader

13 years ago

You can also try a script written by Wil Mattos that I recall being pretty easy to implement. Sorry I don't have the name of it, but perhaps you could ask him.

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blend

13 years ago

This is simple!

Upload the "Gopages Plugin" to your wordpress site and away you go

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futurist 13 years ago

Hi,

I'm testing Quick Pages/Post Redirect Plugin, but still don't know if I'm using it in the right way.

I have seen some pages where you can have a post linking to 'A', but I would like to redirect to another post or landing Aweber form, but keeping the URL 'A', not changing URL to Aweber form. Is that possible to do it with this plug in?

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