Hide Click Bank Affiliate Links

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Hey, anyone know of a free service that can hide a clickbank affiliate ID completely? Or at least make it look very respectable?
#programming #affiliate #bank #click #hide #links
  • Well technically it is impossible to completely hide your affiliate link. Why not use just any old URL shortener?

    If you want to make it look more respectable you might have to buy a domain and then just simply redirect it yourself. I'm not sure if there are any good looking URL hiding sites.
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    • How about a few suggestions? Any good ideas and links.
    • It is certainly not impossible to completely hide your affiliate link. You can do it quite easily with IFRAMES. Very possible, but against Clickbank TOS
  • How about bit.ly ? It's been made extremely popular due to twitter, so people will have no issue trusting a bit.ly link over an evil long affiliate clickbank link ..
  • Or if you want a customizable short url, you could try fly.to

    --m4rx
  • You can create a page on your site with one of the below codes to redirect to your affiliate.
    So the link on your site would point to the redirect page:
    www.yoursite.com/keywordpagethatredirectstoaffiliate.php

    Your redirect page would contain one of these types of code with your affiliate link:

    PAGE USING PLAIN HTML CODE:


    PAGE USING JAVASCRIPT CODE:


    PAGE USING PHP:
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  • If you do that, I would defiantly recommend the PHP way, as the other two have issues that can happen on the client side.

    --m4rx
  • Yeah I use a redirect script. Links look like /golink.php?id=1 on my site and this looks up the affiliate, builds the redirect link with my affiliate id in and does all that for me. Logs in a database to with the referrer url, keywords etc to track what converts.
  • PHP way is the best.
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    • Out of interest why would you want to hide your affiliate ID?

      Ta

      Baz
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  • There is the option of setting up a small script on a domain and they you can add the links to be hidden
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    • So whats the script and how do I use it?
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  • Clickbank now automatically encrypts your links,but if you would like a really good link cloaker, then you would have to wait till December 10th, as there is a new product coming out.
    cheers, Pierro
  • I had a wordpress blog and I intalled a free plugin called GoCodes. It's a url redirect plugin for wordpress. the redirect url look very professional eg. your-site-name/go/xxxxx. the xxxxx is any keyword that you choose. If your affiliate name is MyWorldPLUS, your redirect website may look like your-site-name/go/MyWorldPLUS/
    And one little secret, once you created the redirect link, it will work at all other website. You may use the link in blogspot, forum or your other static webpage.
  • yup, use this

    http://www.ask-me-about.com/free-aff...pt-decrypt.htm

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      Unfortunately iframes are against Clickbank's TOS - but it may be useful for other affiliate links.

      Cheers
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  • I just started using this script:

    Affiliate Link Cloaking & Link Redirects Script - Stealth Link Technology

    (By the way, that is an affiliate link. If you prefer not to use my affiliate link, use this one: http://easyredirectscript.com/erslite.)

    This works very easily. It is a breeze to install, you just ftp it to your site.
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    • This one works very easily. You just ftp it to your site. You can either just put it in your main public html folder and then your links will look like this:

      http://yoursite.com/affiliateproduct

      (You name your affiliateproduct whatever you want your link to read.)

      Or you can create a separate folder on your site, for example visit or recommends and your links will appear this way:

      http://yoursite.com/recommends/affiliateproduct

      You would create and maintain all of your links from one location. You would just go to either:

      http://yoursite.com/ersadmin
      or
      http://yoursite.com/recommends/ersadmin

      Couldn't be easier!

      As far as disclosure goes, I think with the new FTC rules (starting tomorrow) you still need to disclose that you use affiliate links, but at least this way, they look prettier!
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  • Just get any affiliate link cloaking program... and you enter the link... it gives you html code.. you paste it into notepad and upload it to your site. Then simple name it what you want and done. your affiliate link will look like yoursite.com/affiliate-page.html
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    Hi Loz

    I am not disputing the fact that your script works - there are lots of them out there - but it is against their TOS.

    I created a script and was asked (politely) to ensure there was a disclaimer on it to reflect their TOS about iframes. Rather than stir up trouble - I agreed.

    This has been mentioned before on here.
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  • Says nothing about iframing. If they want people to stop Iframing, then they need to ues the correct terminology.
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