How do you hide affiliate links on facebook fan page?

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Hi folks!

I wonder if you good people can help me - I've tried various methods of cloacking affiliate links on my fan page but the hop link is still being shown. I've even created a .php file.

Does anyone have an effective method of disguising linkson facebook?

Thanks!

Simon
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  • Use a link shortener such as tinyurl or bit.ly
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    • Yes I find bit.ly more frugal at tracking also !
  • You can run the links through your own wordpress site using pretty link. That way if you want to change what you are promoting you can easily change the destination link.
  • is link cloaking spam or it's against Google!

    i have a blog that contained with CB links and other back links to my bogs cloaked by bit.ly. While using ad sense.

    suddenly my page de indexed by Google.

    Can any one help?
  • I've used goo.gl to post on facebook with success
  • You can add a page to Wordpress and redirect it, so it looks like website.com/link. Facebook doesn't follow these through like it does with other shorteners. You end up with a lot of empty pages though, just to redirect traffic. A great free tool I like also is Simple URLs. It puts the shortened links at domain.com/go/whatever. It's free and it even records stats: Simple URLs - A Plugin For WordPress

    Hope this helps,

    Eric

    PS: Here is a massive list of link cloakers:
    http://www.netchunks.com/free-and-pr...oaking-plugins

    My favorite there is the one from EBR (E Brian Rose)) Link Camo
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    • Thanks for the Simple URLs tip. I've been wondering how to go about this so thanks to the OP for asking too.

    • I've seen this used a lot by big bloggers. Now I know what they are using. Thanks
  • SimpleURL is a great and simple plugin. There are tons of other ones but really this one is the best I've used. A handy tool to get the ball rolling.
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    • The question is how to cloak affiliate links in Facebook.

      Ad1. It is a good pracitce to cloak affiliate links because they get stolen very often. Look around this forum and you will find people asking for help because someone replaced their affiliate links in their own pages.

      Ad2. Stop repeating urban myths. You can always mark your affiliate links as "no-follow" and nobody is going ot penalize you for anything.

      @Simon71
      I use a simple link cloaking software. Look for "GC affiliate cloaker". What the software does, it allows you to create a single html page which is a redirect to your affiliate offer. You name that page index.html, and you put them in the direcotory your link points to. I use "recommends" folder for that. E.g. offer: "Free Google ads":

      http://simon71.com/recommends/freegoogleads

      and you put that index.html file into the last folder, and direct all the traffic to that folder. Anybody landing there will get automatically redirected to your affiliate page.

      What's more, using GC Affiliate Cloaker you can set up the title of the page, and the address bar will not show "googleadsfree.com/?hop=simon71", but "simon71.com/recommends/freegoogleads"

      For example look at THIS (Attention moderators: it is an affiliate link but used only for demonstration purposes)

      Soft name: GC Affiliate Cloaker
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  • Purchase a generic domain name line moreinfo.com or something link that. Within your control panel create forwarders for each affiliate so in your facebook posts you can just put acnecure.moreinfo.com
  • You could always create a review page or sales page on your own domain and link to that. I've written one review that's made me $120 for a couple hours of work, plus you can possibly get that ranked in google for more sales. Then you can just promote that review or sales page on FB

    Of course that's more work (especially if you promote a lot of products) and I don't know how you run your page, but that's what I would do.
  • Just buy your own domain name, and avoid all the hassle of a URL shortener.
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