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Need A Little Help With My Wordpress Blog!

by davidwhyte
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Hello Warriors....



I am building a new blog at wordpress dot org. I have not began posting just doing some tinkering with it before I begin to post.


Could anyone help me to cloak hop links on banner ads? I have downloaded pretty link and a couple of other plugins....I can create the "pretty" link okay and the link points to the affiliate vendors site, however on the blog when hovering over the banner it still has the unattractive Hoplink url.



Also would it be possible to hide my clickbank ID when the banner is clicked and landed on the vendors site? - i.e. get rid of www dot xxxxxxxx dot com/?hop=xxxxx?

On my blog I would like a static home page. I.E. Have a welcome page with no posts as I want all of them sorted into categories. Cant seem to find any plugins or anything to assist me.



Any help you can give would be gratefully appreciated.


Website - chewinthefat dot net



Regards

DW
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  • Profile picture of the author superzjn
    There are some plugins can do that for you. Just search on GG and hopefully you can get it
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  • Profile picture of the author nika24
    I'm not sure what thje answer is for your first question, so I'll only address the second one. To make your homepage static, go to:

    Dashboard > Settings > Reading

    and then choose the radio button for a static page. You also need to specify what page will be on the homepage (front post) and which page would show your blog (blog post).
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  • Profile picture of the author DianaHeuser
    David,

    First of all, just be careful about building an affiliate business on a blog that does not belong to you. I think that WordPress.org is really sticky about that sort of thing.

    I would recommend that you get your own domain and host your OWN wordpress blog on it before you go to all the effort of building this one.

    Then do a search in the forums, especially in the Website Development forum. There are tons of threads on how to do all of the above.

    Di
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    • Profile picture of the author davidwhyte
      Originally Posted by DianaHeuser View Post

      David,

      First of all, just be careful about building an affiliate business on a blog that does not belong to you. I think that WordPress.org is really sticky about that sort of thing.

      I would recommend that you get your own domain and host your OWN wordpress blog on it before you go to all the effort of building this one.

      Then do a search in the forums, especially in the Website Development forum. There are tons of threads on how to do all of the above.

      Di
      Hi Di.

      Thank you for your comments. Please note that the blog chewinthefat dot net is my own blog. I have just recently purchased the domain name and hosting. It's just doing my head in trying to find a way to cloak banner ads and get my clickbank ID off the vendors page when the banner is clicked....NIGHTMARE!

      Thanks DW
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  • Profile picture of the author RachellGrace
    You can google "cloak", then you can find a php code for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author nrupen
    I don't think that's any kind of problem just replace links in banner by your Pretty links. Next you can find static page open in settings->reading section. If you don't want to use cloaking tools then type following code in text file and save as html.

    --------------------------------------------------------------------
    <html>
    <head><title><title>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://xxxxx.com/xxxxxx">
    </head>

    <body></body>

    </html>
    --------------------------------------------------------------------

    create a recommends folder in your blog directory and upload all these files in it. Then redirect banner URLs to html files and you are done.
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Al
    I heard a couple of horror stores about the *lite* version of pretty links so I'd either not cloak them or try a php or metarefresh direct.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Title</title>
    </head>

    <body>

    <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://www.youraffiliatlink.com">

    </body>

    </html>
    That's the one I sometime use and then save the text as a .html file and upload it to your server. I'm not technical so I'm sure there are better alternatives but this works for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by Big Al View Post

      I heard a couple of horror stores about the *lite* version of pretty links so I'd either not cloak them or try a php or metarefresh direct.
      I haven't heard these stories. Like what, exactly? I use it and would like to know.
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  • Profile picture of the author magiclouie
    Originally Posted by davidwhyte View Post

    Hello Warriors....

    I am building a new blog at wordpress dot org. I have not began posting just doing some tinkering with it before I begin to post

    Could anyone help me to cloak hop links on banner ads? I have downloaded pretty link and a couple of other plugins....I can create the "pretty" link okay and the link points to the affiliate vendors site, however on the blog when hovering over the banner it still has the unattractive Hoplink url.

    Also would it be possible to hide my clickbank ID when the banner is clicked and landed on the vendors site? - i.e. get rid of www dot xxxxxxxx dot com/?hop=xxxxx?

    On my blog I would like a static home page. I.E. Have a welcome page with no posts as I want all of them sorted into categories. Cant seem to find any plugins or anything to assist me.

    Website - chewinthefat dot net


    Regards

    DW
    I hope I have understood you correctly regarding the cloaking part.

    First, cloak the link of that banner, pretty link is a great tool.

    After that, replace the original link (the one that you just cloaked) of the banner with the newly cloaked link.

    <a href="http://www.originallink.com/hoplink"> to <a href="http://www.newlycloakedlink.com/product">

    Thanks,
    Louie Tugas
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  • Profile picture of the author iDesigners
    Yea, I would also suggest plugins, for you know, most of the plugins at the moment have customization options without doing any coding. I hope this works
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  • Profile picture of the author Kezz
    If you don't mind paying for a solution, I've found MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Links to be excellent (non aff link): MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate :: WordPress Affiliate Link Tracking Plugin

    It's very easy to use, handles your cloaking and counts the number of clicks you get so you can track your conversions.

    For a free solution I've always preferred this one from W-Shadow.com: Free Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress | W-Shadow.com

    It's not quite as fancy pants as the Ninja plugin, but it works well.

    And the other thing to consider is registering an account at a shortening service like su.pr for example, and using a shortening process to cloak your URLs. That will give you click tracking too.
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