free Wordpress affiliate link masking/cloaking plugin?

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    Does anyone know of one? The only one I knew of was WP-Affiliate and it no longer works with the newer versions of WP.
     
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  2. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    Simply do a 301 redirect in .htaccess for affiliate links. You don't need a plugin to do this.
     
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    Big0ne Well-Known Member

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    Civin Well-Known Member

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    Thanks Big0ne, I've actually been looking for a replacement to use as well. Going to try it out tonight.
     
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    Do you know of a good tutorial for doing this??
     
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    madeasy Banned

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    why you not use wordpress redirect plugin, this better than masking and cloaking, this plugin is free and you can use it with easy, all of my blog has using redirect plugin to hide an affiliate link !

    just search in wordpress plugin site about "wp redirect plugin"

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  7. Pixelrage

    Pixelrage Peon

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    there was a tutorial posted by Shoemoney about how to do it - it is a huge pain in the ass....

    Big0ne, thanks but it appears that plugin is only offered in German :(
     
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    I agree, its free and simple I use it on about 10 different blogs, Ninja Affiliate is great too but you have to pay for it.
     
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  9. Pixelrage

    Pixelrage Peon

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    Thanks for recommending WP Redirect Plugin, it looks really good...however I still dont understand how this takes the place of cloaking links. For instance, I originally wanted my Amazon affiliate links to show "mysite.com/productname" instead of the affiliate link.
     
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    MeetHere Prominent Member

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    try gocodes plugin
     
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    Pixelrage Peon

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    Great -- Thanks!! That appears to be exactly what I was looking for. Let's hope it works with the new WP.
     
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    GoCodes works better for cloaking links, and another option is w-shadow.com/blog/2007/07/28/link-cloaking-plugin-for-wordpress/
     
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    Pixelrage Peon

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    Thanks vrktech - I read the comments on that plugin and it looks like it's not working with the newest version of WP :(
     
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    I am not sure about gocodes, but I am using the second as of now and it works good with the latest wp version.
     
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    Perhaps you should try pretty links where you can Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress blog.
    You can get more information abou it here http://blairwilliams.com/pretty-link/
     
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