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Cloaking affiliate links

by Rosalie
11 replies
Hi

I want to cloak my affiliate links, how do you know which product is safe to use to cloak affiliate links I have a word press site and an ordinary site.

There seems to be plenty around but how to choose:confused:

Thanks in adavance
#affiliate #cloaking #links
  • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
    You could do it the old fashioned way. Find some code that will redirect the person when they go to a particular page.

    There's HTML, PHP, Htaccess redirects and all kinds in between. You just put the link you want it to redirect to, upload it, test it, and you're done.

    Here's an example of an HTML redirect.
    HTML Code:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com"></HEAD>
<BODY>
Optional page text here.
</BODY>
</HTML>
    Then you can name the page/folder whatever you want.
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    • Profile picture of the author ozzie2012
      I use php redirects. Simply open a txt file, add the following code to it and rename it from "link.txt" to "link.php"

      <?php
      header( 'Location: http://www.domain.com/' ) ;
      ?>
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      • Profile picture of the author Rosalie
        Will have a look at that thanks to you both
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        • Profile picture of the author Cram
          you could always get prettylink plugin for your Wordpress site.
          it cloaks and tracks clicks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
        Originally Posted by ozzie2012 View Post

        I use php redirects. Simply open a txt file, add the following code to it and rename it from "link.txt" to "link.php"

        <?php
        header( 'Location: http://www.domain.com/' ) ;
        ?>
        This works just as well.

        There's many ways to do it and you don't have to buy anything.
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      • Profile picture of the author zpoll92
        Originally Posted by ozzie2012 View Post

        I use php redirects. Simply open a txt file, add the following code to it and rename it from "link.txt" to "link.php"

        <?php
        header( 'Location: http://www.domain.com/' ) ;
        ?>
        Yes, this is the most simple way of cloaking. You could use the code above freely.
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  • Profile picture of the author netsz
    Search The "Cloak" in wordpress plugin sites, You will get a lot plugins from it
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    • Profile picture of the author Rosalie
      Originally Posted by netsz View Post

      Search The "Cloak" in wordpress plugin sites, You will get a lot plugins from it
      That's what I mean so many to choose from
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      • Profile picture of the author Rosalie
        Thanks for all your input everybody, will have a look Sunday
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  • Profile picture of the author CatK
    I use the Pretty Link Lite plugin also. It's great for not only cloaking, but also optimizing links. If you need a tutorial how to set it up I have done one here.

    Good luck Rosalie!
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  • Profile picture of the author aZapX
    Making em afflitiate links no follow helps a lot too.
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