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Bohol
Mar 4th 2008, 2:35 pm
How do you hide affiliate urls in your website? Some urls are just too long.
nonyf
Mar 4th 2008, 2:38 pm
I've heard cloaking can imapct your SEO or search engine results? Does anyone know if that's true? Thanks.
Crux
Mar 4th 2008, 2:40 pm
try a service like this

test it

http://www.kenu.org/
mberman84
Mar 4th 2008, 2:50 pm
cloak your links. i have not seen any problems with this method with regards to SEO. Google's spider can still read the destination URL.
Bohol
Mar 4th 2008, 3:30 pm
The urls in commission junction don't look beautiful. :) How can we beautify these urls?
scottspfd82
Mar 4th 2008, 3:33 pm
PHP redirect.

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>

Stick your link in, rename the file whatever.php, and link to that page on your server.
trichnosis
Mar 4th 2008, 3:34 pm
making redirect with your .htacess can be an alternative
kittyluver
Mar 4th 2008, 3:38 pm
How do you hide affiliate urls in your website? Some urls are just too long.

Just mask the URL using sites like tinyurl.com and urlshort.com

If you want to cloak the URL completely, please do use the following JAVA code-


merchant-url-goes-here.com";
return true' onMouseOut='window.status="Done"; return true'
href="http://www.affiliate-url-goes-here.com" target="_blank">TEXT GOES
HERE</a>

This link will display the http://www.merchant-url-goes-here.com in the
status bar at the bottom of your browser, hiding the
http://www.affiliate-url-goes-here.com.
Bohol
Mar 4th 2008, 3:50 pm
Thank you Scott and Kitty for the tutorial. Green reps for both of you. :)
Cowboytf
Mar 4th 2008, 3:51 pm
I use WP Affiliate Pro. It hasn't affected my SEO at all.
Shazz
Mar 4th 2008, 3:54 pm
http://tinyurl.com/ :D
bryanw
Mar 5th 2008, 5:26 am
PHP redirect.

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>

Stick your link in, rename the file whatever.php, and link to that page on your server.

Great tips!

But how to decide the affiliate url ?
Redirect to 'Keyword Link'? Other links have pictures.

Thanks for the info.
blazwww
Mar 5th 2008, 5:34 am
HTML Redirect

Another easy way to do hide your code, that doesn’t require a certain OS. Create a file called john.htm and type this in.

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Taking you to johnchow.com website</TITLE> <meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://johnchow.com?ref=justin">
</HEAD> <BODY>Please stand by.</BODY> </HTML>

You just need to create a new HTML file for each of your affiliate program.
bryanw
Mar 5th 2008, 5:36 am
Another question, is it ok to change the text of 'Text Link'?

Thanks!
Bohol
Mar 5th 2008, 6:30 am
HTML Redirect

Another easy way to do hide your code, that doesn’t require a certain OS. Create a file called john.htm and type this in.

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Taking you to johnchow.com website</TITLE> <meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://johnchow.com?ref=justin">
</HEAD> <BODY>Please stand by.</BODY> </HTML>

You just need to create a new HTML file for each of your affiliate program.

Can I upload this file in the server, so it would look like this mydomain.com/john.html.
blazwww
Mar 5th 2008, 6:50 am
Can I upload this file in the server, so it would look like this mydomain.com/john.html.

yes

regards,

b
blogspot
Mar 5th 2008, 7:43 am
Protect your affiliate revenue with Affiliate Link Protector.
postdeals
Mar 5th 2008, 9:08 am
Protect your affiliate revenue with Affiliate Link Protector.

which is what?
The Chaotic Writer
Mar 5th 2008, 11:32 am
Do articles sites such as ezinearticles accept articles with links that are redirected?
blogspot
Mar 5th 2008, 2:21 pm
see here http://www.scriptcavern.com/scr_aff_link.php


which is what?
brandont
Mar 5th 2008, 2:26 pm
Is there a downside to just framing the page in? This is the code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Page Title</title>
<script>window.status = " ";</script>
</head>
<frameset border="0" rows="100%,*" frameborder="0" marginleft="0" margintop="0" marginright="0" marginbottom="0">
<frame src="Page URL" scrolling="auto" frameborder="no" border="0" noresize="noresize">
<frame topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" frameborder="no" border="0" noresize="noresize">
<noframes>
<body></body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Bohol
Mar 5th 2008, 3:15 pm
What are the java, php, and html codes for hiding affiliate url but with a visible image in which there is a clickable url on the image?
Chancey
Mar 6th 2008, 10:49 am
You can read about it on my blog post entitled "Hinding links".
northwest
Mar 6th 2008, 10:57 am
Actually creating file for an affiliate has many advantages. You can add meta tags to optimize it. Here's one method:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Affiliate Program Keywords</TITLE> <meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.affiliateurl.com">
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2">
<meta name="description" content="Very valuable info about keyword1. Visit us to learn more about keyword2">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="2">
<meta name="rating" content="general">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>


Also, you can use affiliate defender and such tools - these tools will encrypt your affiliate ID, which is a big advantage. Also, these tools are available for free. Do a google search for free affiliate defender.

These files will get spidered and will show up on search engines searches.
louiefrias
Mar 6th 2008, 6:20 pm
Jim Edwards has a good product.
aolaybar
Mar 6th 2008, 7:50 pm
Nice tips... I think .htaccess will works fine...
Bohol
Mar 6th 2008, 9:44 pm
Nice tips... I think .htaccess will works fine...

Can you post a sample how .htaccess can redirect affiliate url? Thanks.
JWRmedia
Mar 19th 2008, 10:09 am
You can use Affilitrack. It will mask the affiliate URL and you can name it whatever you want. It will also track how many times each one of your links was clicked.

http://www.jwrmedia.com/store/affilitrack/
nonyf
Mar 19th 2008, 11:33 am
What's the impact of cloaking on your SEO or search engine optimization? Does it reduce the credit given to linking text and outbound link context? Do search engines discount results that include cloaked links? What's the value of no follow vs cloaking or should both be done? Thanks for the tips.
LittleJonSupportSite
Mar 19th 2008, 11:35 am
I am actually really surprised no one has remarked about simply using url rewrites via the mod_rewrite function (provided it is enabled at your webhost).

Seems like the perfect solution.
goscorpio
Mar 19th 2008, 3:17 pm
Hey Rick,

If you have a hosting account, you can use an affiliate link cloaker to hide you CB hoplinks. The one I use is free, and is comparable to another one that cost $97. You can have it re-direct to the merchant's homepage, and the cookie will still be there. You can dowload it free at goscorpio.com/freestuff/linkcloaker.zip

Or if you don't have a hosting account, you can use tinyurl.com or some other url shrinking site.
writer1972
Mar 19th 2008, 7:42 pm
I think I have a free cloaking tool on my site. http://www.findworkonline.net/webtools

Let me know if you try it, and how well it works for you if you do. :)