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How to hide affiliate link safely

by olvus
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Colleagues tell me how to hide the affiliate link safely? What I mean:

I have a small blog with some ClickBank products. Previously, I used the wordpress plugin to hide affiliate links. But in March, one of Panda updates affected him. I think, it happened due to affiliate links cloaking.

I created a new blog. At the moment I do not hide affiliate links, but the number of clicks has decreased by half.

Tell me, is it possible to hide the affiliate link without sanctions from Google ?
#affiliate #hide #link #safely
  • Profile picture of the author TheProgrammer
    I am using Simple URLs plugin and never have any issue in serps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danijelb
    You can make a new .php page and put this in it:

    <?php
    header("Location: http://www.example.com");
    ?>

    It will redirect the visitor to desired URL, you can name the PHP file however you want. Never had problems with this.
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    • Profile picture of the author n0tr3v3
      I use the following example below from Danijelb. And also I have websites on #2 and #5 my affiliate links cloaked that way.

      So you can see it does the job perfectly..

      Originally Posted by Danijelb View Post

      You can make a new .php page and put this in it:

      <?php
      header("Location: http://www.example.com");
      ?>

      It will redirect the visitor to desired URL, you can name the PHP file however you want. Never had problems with this.
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Generally do a redirect using yoursite.com/affiliatelinkdescription - don't do a plugin that dynamically does it with ? marks.
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    • Profile picture of the author cooler1
      Originally Posted by Danijelb View Post

      You can make a new .php page and put this in it:

      <?php
      header("Location: http://www.example.com");
      ?>

      It will redirect the visitor to desired URL, you can name the PHP file however you want. Never had problems with this.

      Does using a .PHP page mean that Google doesn't know it's an affiliate link? I guess the bot would have to scan the .PHP file somehow to know if it's an affiliate link.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Tork
    I've used Pretty Links plugin with no problems. I would recommend that.
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  • Profile picture of the author radivoj
    just make it no follow...I have several sites ranked #1 all links are no follow I never had any problem so far...
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  • Profile picture of the author atwellpub
    Any link masking plugin will do for hiding the link, but if a spider visits the link then it will know the destination source unless you cloak the link through spider detection. Nofollow will tell honest robots to not toy with the link, but robots who act as police for google will not honor nofollow, and thats when you may decide to cloak the link.

    You can cloak through useragent detection and browser feature detection or by blocking a range of IP addresses, but there is no 100% safe way to cloak.

    WP Traffic Tools offers the best in masking and medium security cloaking if it's something you are interested in doing.

    The reason why I developed in cloaking is because people on the forums where saying new websites with high number of outbound links heading to the site amazon were sandboxed unless the number of outbound links to amazon was low compared to other non-amazon outbound links. I did not like that Google made such blind considerations at the cost of my investment dollar so I decided to prevent the problem by hiding the destination of my monetized links.

    I rarely do this practice today but sometimes I do.
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliaterbuzz
    1 - make the link no follow
    2 creat a new fils link.php
    put this code on it

    <?php
    $link=$_GET['url'];
    header("Location: $link");
    ?>
    Your link should be like this
    HTML Code:
    yourblog.com/link.php?url=affiliate-link-here
    if you want this work correctly the affiliate link must be a static link no ? or = on it
    good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author eluminousdev
      You can create href element and that has onclick event on it. You can set the click() handler of jquery for the same. Please check .click() – jQuery API for details.
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  • Profile picture of the author williamk
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    I use pretty links and it works really well. But as others said php redirect is also very good. So you can choose any one.
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  • Profile picture of the author AuthorityRush
    If you want to hide affiliate links with no retaliation, use a 301 redirect. It's completely legit in the big G's eyes.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    I think you should start using your own PHP code. don't use plugin. They can create problem at any time. because most of the people use plugins to do this so soon it will become bolts form the blue. So try to avoid them.
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