How to Hide Affilaite Links in Wordpress

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Hi

I am using wordpress and i am doing affiliate marketing and i don't want to show the affiliate links to the visitors. One more thing that i don't want to use plugins too.

How can hide affiliate links without using plugins? i want step by step so method so please hlpe me to get this job done correctly. it is better to show my affiliate links as http://mysite.com/product.

is it possible ?

james
#affilaite #hide #links #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    How about Affiliate Link Cloaker? I've used this method for years and their present system works well for me, but I believe they are also on the verge of coming out with a new, vamped up version.

    Anne
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  • Profile picture of the author PLRwithAlex
    Why not just use a simple PHP redirect?
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    • Profile picture of the author jamesjoin
      Originally Posted by PLRwithAlex View Post

      Why not just use a simple PHP redirect?
      How can i do that? i don't know exactly so i need some step by step plan for this mate
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  • Profile picture of the author binko
    If you don't need to use you own domain name in the url you could just use tinyurl.com or bit.ly or some of the other url shortening services.

    You could install a url shortener script on your own website if you need your own domain in the url, there are many free scripts that work quite OK. Just google for url shortener script

    Or you could buy a script for cloaking.
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  • Profile picture of the author duia
    A redirect is enough to hide Affiliate links.
    Of course, you can also use some URL shorteners to get these links hiden.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesjoin
    Yes i want to use my domain name in the link with /product name as it may looks good so is there any i have to add to my .htaccess So what exactly i have to do ? please guys ste by step as i am going to do it for the first time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Clifford
      Use pretty link as it allows you to create nice links off your domain and automatically tracks them as well. Its also has a nofollow option so you can stop the bot going through to the affiliate vendor site.
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      • Profile picture of the author jamesjoin
        Originally Posted by norristudor View Post

        Use pretty link as it allows you to create nice links off your domain and automatically tracks them as well. Its also has a nofollow option so you can stop the bot going through to the affiliate vendor site.

        i think it's a plugin mate but looks good let me check this one
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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    I maintain that the program Affiliate Link Cloaker is the best. Yoiur link will lead to a fresh page that still shows your own URL in the address bar like this:

    http://www.yoursite/productname.html
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  • Profile picture of the author edmltw
    Here's your FREE solution James!

    WordPress › Pretty Link WordPress Plugins

    Sounds a little girlish, but hey, it works

    Regards,
    Ed

    p.s. there's even an option for you track clicks
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  • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
    I use Pretty Link on all of my WP sites. Just a word of caution though sometimes if you use the cloaking option it doesn't work when it reaches the affiliate sales page. Just test it through to the sales page or use the 301 redirect option.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    I prefer to use simple PHP redirects, one of the things where i think a plugin is simply overkill. It takes 3 seconds to write a PHP redirect in notepad

    <?php
    header( 'Location: http://www. igetmoneyforthisifyouclicklol.com' ) ;
    ?>
    ok, you would put your affiliate link in there, and then save this from notepad, call it product.php or whatever you want.

    Upload to your host, and then instead having a plain affiliate link you would have it like
    http:// yoursite.com/product.php or maybe http:// yoursite.com/recommends/product.php

    simple
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