How to protect the affiliate links ?

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Most of buyers will stop buying the products if they see the affliliate links of the products they want ; this can dicrease our commissions so how can we cloak the affliliate links so that they cannot recognize ?
#affiliate #links #protect
  • Profile picture of the author doorkicker13
    Originally Posted by baokhau View Post

    Most of buyers will stop buying the products if they see the affliliate links of the products they want ; this can dicrease our commissions so how can we cloak the affliliate links so that they cannot recognize ?
    Code:
    <?php
    header('Location: http://YourAffiliateLinkHere');
    ?>
    Put that code into notepad. Save as .php. Upload via FTP. Link cloaked.

    I like to create a directory called /go/ and upload these files there. So the affiliate link would look like http://www.mydomain.com/go/productname.php

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    • Profile picture of the author wklee
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      I guess you are working on wordpress, so probably you can use a plugin call pretty link to cloak your affiliate links and you can monitor where the clicks are from on your site for example page keyword 1 or page keyword 2.
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  • Profile picture of the author MandLoys
    You can also use URL shortening services. If you use something that is not very popular (yet) like TinyFav instead of bit.ly, even more people will click because they're curious.
    However it's the best to use redirects on your own site or setup one domain only for cloaking/forwarding as suggested before me.
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    • Profile picture of the author baokhau
      Originally Posted by MandLoys View Post

      You can also use URL shortening services. If you use something that is not very popular (yet) like TinyFav instead of bit.ly, even more people will click because they're curious.
      However it's the best to use redirects on your own site or setup one domain only for cloaking/forwarding as suggested before me.
      Setting up domain will cost some money. Supposing that i want to promote 10 products, i must set up 10 domains and hosting. oh....
      How about if we use software to cloak the affliliate links ?
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      • Profile picture of the author AnthonyBe
        I like the way Doorkicker13 described, it looks very professional.

        I used a free software (on a site) to cloak my affiliate links and it worked very well too.

        Here it is:


        http://www.glhsoftware.com/webtools/cloaker.htm







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  • Profile picture of the author austria
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    what#s the advantage of tiny fav?
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