Web Tips and Hints for Webmasters and Marketers » cloaking http://www.themarketingmother.com Web tips and hints to help your internet life a little easier Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Affiliate Link Cloaker – Simple To Use …and Free http://www.themarketingmother.com/general/affiliate-link-cloaker-simple-to-use-and-free http://www.themarketingmother.com/general/affiliate-link-cloaker-simple-to-use-and-free#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:10:46 +0000 admin http://www.themarketingmother.com/?p=175 .

The best way I’ve found to cloak affiliate links is as follows, it’s quite simple to do and it works well… and if it’s good enough for Mark Dulisse and Willie Crawford then it’s good enough for me!

Making a Simple Redirect Link

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Using Notepad or other text editor that you use, open a file and save it as “index.html”,  ”index.htm” – or whatever file type you’re using.

Then insert the following code in the HTML
section of your page.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Refresh”
content=”0;url=http://youraffiliatelink.com“>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

Just copy this code, making sure to replace the words highlighted above in red, ”youraffiliatelink”, with your own real affiliate link.

Save the file, placing it in a directory (a folder) that you have created in the root folder of your site and which you named after the product name.  When you want to refer someone to this great product, you just refer them to your new url – as in:

http://www.yourdomain.com/productname/

If you have any questions please ask away in the comment box below…

NOTE: It’s not advisable to use a javascript encryption method to do cloaking – in fact I’ve understood that it’s a big no-n0 because encoded javascript is the sort of thing scammers and hackers use so has the potential to be harmful which is why Google wave a red flag as of course they know this.

Free WordPress Affiliate Link Cloaker Plugin

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If you use WordPress, there is a good plugin for cloaking affiliate links, called ’Link Cloaking Plugin for Worpress’ (surprisingly!) which you can download for free.  Make sure you read the ‘readme’ file as you have to carry out a couple of additional small steps after you’ve activated it.

Quick & Simple Cloaking

If you just want to do a really quick and simple cloak then go to:

http://www.budurl.com

enter your long affiliate link, click on the  ’shorten’ button and Hey-presto! there you have your new link :)

Hope you find these methods useful – any questions or comments please add them in the comments box below…

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