What about this ''link cloaking''

by solonx

Posted: 13 years ago 3 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Every where i look about this, all the same comes out.
For example: Let's say, Tina start a blog, just simple blog about...face creams. then somewhere heard and read about CB,JC;SAS and so on. She take a product, take a link..and but it in her's blog. She do not want to start all that marketing stuff and site building,keywords and so on. Just but the simple link somewhere in her blog. Then she try a link..and what she see....somesite.com/?hop=tina. She do not like it she look around to find answeres. All the info she get is, do php scrip, do this to that iframe page, up load it in your website some folder and so on. She do not know how and don't want to mess around all that crab. She just simply want to hide hop=tina..
And so far nowhere nowbody give her a good simply way to do this, or a good soft.

#cloaking #link

dexignz 13 years ago

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- ezeway 13 years ago
  
  Try to use Pretty Links plugin if you're on wordpress...
  
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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

There are various different ways of doing it.

I also want to conceal the "?hop=xxxxxx" bit all the time, but I don't understand anything technical or complicated at all, so I use the easiest one.

For each product I promote, I buy a $1 ".info" domain-name from GoDaddy, and instead of putting my link on the page as "?hop=xxxxxx", I just put a link to "mysite.info", and then at GoDaddy I re-direct that .info name to the whole link with the "?hop=xxxxxx", with masking, so that it doesn't show. (No hosting needed for the domain).

It takes people to the hoplink page (or whatever) and I get paid for the sale, but in their browser, they see "mysite.info".

It's simple and it works, but it costs $1 per product for the domain-name for the first year.

There are free ways, too, but they need a little bit of programming.

The big mistake to avoid, in my opinion, is to use an unnecessary third-party concealing/redirecting service like bit.ly, tinyulr, budurl or any of those, for all the reasons explained in this thread and many others.
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Ruth P 13 years ago

Do you use Wordpress? if so the Pretty Link plugin makes it really easy to cloak links on your site - WordPress › Pretty Link Lite « WordPress Plugins - I use it all the time it's so handy and keeps links looking like they're still within your site.
~Ruth
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