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How Can I Cloak a link?

by Andre Slater
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I am trying to do some quick link cloaking. I currently use Pretty Links Lite, but now I need a link where when someone goes to it, that it wont show the original link... I can upgrade to pro that mask link and it's like 39 bucks, but I was wondering if there is a cheaper program on WF or any free programs that will mask a link?

I know you can use a shortened link like bit.ly but it will still show the actual link at the top of the browser.
#affiliate #cloak #link
  • Profile picture of the author LillySage
    Do you have webhosting somewhere? You can create redirects in your servers .htaccess file like this:

    Code:
    redirect 301 /url-people-click.html http://www.url-you-want-to-redirect-to.com
    So if my website is LillySage.com and I gave someone this link:

    http://www.LillySage.com/url-people-click.html

    That link would redirect to http://www.url-you-want-to-redirect-to.com

    Make sense?
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    Try this site:

    Affiliate Link Cloaker Hide Links

    Enjoy! (if this is what you were looking for) lol
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    • Profile picture of the author Niko A Berezkin
      Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

      Try this site:

      Affiliate Link Cloaker Hide Links

      Enjoy! (if this is what you were looking for) lol

      Thanks for that link friend. Needed somethng like this for a project I've got running.

      Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    Ah... Well in that case, sorry. Can't help ya! lol
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  • Profile picture of the author ronorr
    I know you can do this with 1and1 hosting when you do a redirect
    forget what they call it, I thought this was called masking if I Understand you right
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Copy below and paste it into Notepad.

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Title</title>
    </head>

    <frameset cols="*,1" frameborder="0" framespacing="0" border="0">
    <frame src="http:// yourdomain (.) com" border="0" frameborder="0" name="main" noresize scrolling="auto"></frameset>
    <noframes></noframes>
    </html>
    Replace:
    - title
    - yourdomain(.) com

    Then you save it and change name *.txt to *.html. And upload the file to your web hosting account through file manager or FTP.
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    • Profile picture of the author njc421
      Originally Posted by himanuzo View Post

      Copy below and paste it into Notepad.



      Replace:
      - title
      - yourdomain(.) com

      Then you save it and change name *.txt to *.html. And upload the file to your web hosting account through file manager or FTP.
      I used a similar code to mask my affiliate URL:

      <html> <head> <title>yourname</title> <meta name="description" content="your description"> <meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2"> </head> <frameset rows="100%,0" border="0"> <frame src="http://verylongURLTosite.com?task=more&param=parm1" frameborder="0"> <frame frameborder="0"> </frameset> </html>

      BUT, the exit popup that is attached to http://verylongURLTosite.com now doesn't work.
      Any ideas on how I can activate the exit popup without losing the URL mask?
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  • Profile picture of the author juangarciamtl
    create a php file
    with this content


    <?php
    // Request URI is /boo/blah.php
    header("Location: http://www.yourwebsite.com");
    ?>
    make a link to that file
    and there you go you have a nice redirecting page
    you can play a little bit more with it
    and create random redirect

    just look on gogle for php code to redirect
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    Originally Posted by Andre Slater View Post

    ... it will still show the actual link at the top of the browser.
    Of course. The browser shows the url of the web page the person is visiting.

    Redirects, pretty links, masking, etc., are all useless. They are all on your site and have nothing to do with what is shown on another site. If you want someone to visit a page the page url is going to show in the browser and what is shown is strictly controlled by the website owner. If that includes your affiliate link in the url then that is what it includes.

    It's like giving directions: Turn right on Elm Street then left on Main Street, and not wanting the person driving the car to actually see they are on Main Street when they get there.

    The only method of not showing the url of the web page the person is looking at is to frame the page.
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