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I've tried html cloaking, php cloaking and .htaccess...

by Ryan700
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I understand how all these work but what I really wanted was when someone clicked on a cloaked clickbank URL it would resolve to a URL that doesn't show my affiliate ID. If I have to live with this so I won't lose any commissions then so be it.
#clickbank affiliate #cloaking #cloaking links #htaccess #html #php
  • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
    Originally Posted by Ryan700 View Post

    I understand how all these work but what I really wanted was when someone clicked on a cloaked clickbank URL it would resolve to a URL that doesn't show my affiliate ID. If I have to live with this so I won't lose any commissions then so be it.

    if you don't mind using a service, the best one to use for completely cloaking and shortening urls is urlfreeze.com
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    • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
      I reckon the easiest way to do it is via an IFRAME

      Simple create a standard HTML file on your website, lets call it product.html

      In the body section of the file put in the following code :

      <iframe src="http://www.somesite.com?id=12345" width="100%" height="5000" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

      where http://www.somesite.com?id=12345 is the affiliate url of the product you wish to promote.

      Now when somebody visit your page (product.html) they are shown the affiliate page but the url in the web browser still shows your product.html url.

      This way you don't loose any afilliate commisions whenb somebody clicks on your link and goes to product.html

      Hope this helps

      Bruce
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      • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
        Originally Posted by Bruce Hearder View Post

        I reckon the easiest way to do it is via an IFRAME

        Simple create a standard HTML file on your website, lets call it product.html

        In the body section of the file put in the following code :

        <iframe src="http://www.somesite.com?id=12345" width="100%" height="5000" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

        where http://www.somesite.com?id=12345 is the affiliate url of the product you wish to promote.

        Now when somebody visit your page (product.html) they are shown the affiliate page but the url in the web browser still shows your product.html url.

        This way you don't loose any afilliate commisions whenb somebody clicks on your link and goes to product.html

        Hope this helps

        Bruce
        I've seen that used, but I don't think you can do that with cickbank. FAQ Hoplink - ClickBank Or am I wrong?
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  • Profile picture of the author n7 Studios
    Unless you're using an iframe or domain cloaked forwarding, .htaccess et. al won't necessarily hide the URL you're sending the user to - and why should it? Otherwise we'd end up with a million sites purporting to be Paypal etc. when they're phishing copies instead.

    Unless there's a really, really good reason to hide your affiliate ID, I don't see why you'd want to hide it. Certainly use a redirect to have a friendlier URL for your link, though.
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  • Profile picture of the author kidino
    The MOST surest way has to come for the vendor. They have to parse their URL for QUERYSTRING. If there is QUERYSTRING in the URL, they need to reload the page without it. I do this with my own page which makes affiliates happy.

    <?php
    if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] != "")
    {
    header('Location: /');
    }
    ?>

    Or something like that...

    Other methods, well ... there's always ways to get around it. Even with iFrame/Frame, I know that the window gets a bit funny as the Address URL is not changing when I click on things, even when I am paying at ClickBank. I can go to View Source and see the codes, and I will discover your affiliate ID.
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