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cloaking link question

by deebee23
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How do you cloak a affiliate link in your hosted wordpress blog. For example I am in the basketball niche and I created a blog post about how Lebron James and the heat are struggling in the finals and I highlight Lebron James name in the post and it takes the reader to an affiliate offer for a autographed Lebron James jersey. Do anyone have any tips or any youtube videos that explains the process.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
    Originally Posted by deebee23 View Post

    How do you cloak a affiliate link in your hosted wordpress blog. For example I am in the basketball niche and I created a blog post about how Lebron James and the heat are struggling in the finals and I highlight Lebron James name in the post and it takes the reader to an affiliate offer for a autographed Lebron James jersey. Do anyone have any tips or any youtube videos that explains the process.
    Use the plugin pretty links to cloak them, it is a very simple yet effective plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author JasonJames
    Search for a redirect url plugin, or a link cloaking plugin. There are many free ones in the wordpress plugin search.
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  • Profile picture of the author Willie Crawford
    I would use an html redirect, where the link in your blog post
    would be to: http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/

    Inside the /ProductName/ directory on your site, I would
    stick an index.php page which has the target url, your
    affiliate link, encoded in the header.

    When your blog readers click on your link, it would talk them
    through http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/ to your target
    affiliate url... which again is encoded in the header of the
    index.php file.

    To learn how to do redirects, just google php redirects, but here is
    the code... if I the forum will allow me to paste it:

    <?php
    header( 'Location: YourTargetURL' ) ;
    ?>


    You can simply copy this code into a text file, replace where I have
    YourTargetURL with the actual affiliate link, save the page as
    index.php (making sure that you select ALL, when choosing the
    file type to save as), and then upload that file to your server,
    in the directory: http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/

    Now you can use the link: http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/
    anywhere you want to use that affiliate link.

    I hope this didn't confuse you too much. I do this practically
    every day, with it taking me less than 2 minutes to create, uload,
    and these the target page, before using that cloaked link in blog
    or social media posts, articles, and ezines, etc.

    Willie
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    • Profile picture of the author tooAlive
      Originally Posted by Willie Crawford View Post

      I would use an html redirect, where the link in your blog post
      would be to: http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/

      Inside the /ProductName/ directory on your site, I would
      stick an index.php page which has the target url, your
      affiliate link, encoded in the header.

      When your blog readers click on your link, it would talk them
      through http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/ to your target
      affiliate url... which again is encoded in the header of the
      index.php file.

      To learn how to do redirects, just google php redirects, but here is
      the code... if I the forum will allow me to paste it:

      <?php
      header( 'Location: YourTargetURL' ) ;
      ?>


      You can simply copy this code into a text file, replace where I have
      YourTargetURL with the actual affiliate link, save the page as
      index.php (making sure that you select ALL, when choosing the
      file type to save as), and then upload that file to your server,
      in the directory: http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/

      Now you can use the link: http://YourDomain.com/ProductName/
      anywhere you want to use that affiliate link.

      I hope this didn't confuse you too much. I do this practically
      every day, with it taking me less than 2 minutes to create, uload,
      and these the target page, before using that cloaked link in blog
      or social media posts, articles, and ezines, etc.

      Willie
      It's a lot easier to use the plugins suggested above (Pretty Link), but I'd go with Willie's suggestion.

      By using the PHP redirect you're not loading your WP blog with another plugin that will slow it down. Unless you have hundreds of affiliate links, in which case just go with the plugin.
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      • Profile picture of the author jeet020
        Try..
        Gocodes Wordpress Plugin

        WordPress › GoCodes « WordPress Plugins
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      • Profile picture of the author Willie Crawford
        Originally Posted by tooAlive View Post

        It's a lot easier to use the plugins suggested above (Pretty Link), but I'd go with Willie's suggestion.

        By using the PHP redirect you're not loading your WP blog with another plugin that will slow it down. Unless you have hundreds of affiliate links, in which case just go with the plugin.

        I read the other answers and realized that they were probably
        easier, but since I'm now at a point where I actually THINK in
        HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP... I typically do use the redirect
        that I shared with you.

        Some blog platforms, including WordPress, can be fairly resource
        intensive (especially when they have a lot of plug-ins), so I tends
        to do this without using a plug-in, just for that reason.

        Willie
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  • Profile picture of the author atwellpub
    Just here to leave my mark, wp traffic tools helps with masking and cloaking. masking is free, only works for WordPress.
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  • Profile picture of the author RockNRolla
    Yeah, pretty links/pro is the way to go. Great little plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author Romeo90
    Pretty Link. Another vote for me - very, very easy plugin to use.
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    Pretty links
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  • Profile picture of the author wmwoodie
    yep, Pretty Links, easy and not resource draining. Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author attan
    Pretty links lite will do just fine
    I created a video a couple of days ago how to install and use it
    Here;w the link if your're interested How to cloak your affiliate links for free - YouTube
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    • Profile picture of the author scriptkiddies
      you can use external url shortener like adcrun.ch or bitly so it lower the power of your wp hosting
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      • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
        I may have missed something, but from what I could tell, Pretty Link Lite doesn't actually cloak the link, only the Pro version does that. So if you forward to a Clickbank link, there's still that pesky hop link that people can see...

        I either use a redirect software that works somewhat similar to Pretty Link, or (if it's a product I plan to promote for a while), I buy a domain name and redirect it through that).
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  • Profile picture of the author Bish
    I have used a PHP script for years called samurai stealth cloaker. You can set it to simply redirect, mask or stealth (bypass the vendors page), it's really easy to use and works a treat. Not sure if it is still available but there are others like it.
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