Okay, so I can find tons of info on how to hide the hoplink in the initial link that people will click on. I followed this - created php redirects, etc...but that only solves part of the problem. How do make it so that when the person clicks on my link (which I have on a separate domain, so it's not direct linking)...that when the clickbank product shows up - my hoplink is not in the address bar??? I mean it's blatant - I assume people would see that and just either turn around and type in the site without my hoplink or use their own. Is there an easy way to cloak this? thanks.
Here is the code you need my friend. This will allow you to mask the vendors domain when you forward them through your landing page. So when the customer lands on the Vendors sale page. It wont display hop=affiliateID This is a great way to hide your affiliate ID. <html> <head> <script>window.status = ' ';</script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <title>Welcome!</title><meta name="keywords" content> <meta name="description" content> </head> <frameset border="0" frameborder="0" marginleft="0" margintop="0" marginright="0" marginbottom="0" rows="100%,*"> <frame src="http://www.destination-url-goes-here.com" scrolling="auto" frameborder="no" border="0" noresize> <frame topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" frameborder="no" border="0" noresize> <noframes> <body> </body> </noframes> </frameset> </html>
I'm not that sure it's that important anymore as if you get the link from the clickbank marketplace it's now encrypted now so if you use that hoplink they won't be able to find out where the product is until they click on the link. Once they have clicked on the link the cookie will be stored on their computer even if they take the "?hop=Burano" off in the address bar, it will make no difference you will still get credit. No real reason to cloak.
Thanks very much, you rock! Question, I see the words 'frame' in there...does this put the site in an iframe or anything. Clickbank's faq says cookies won't drop with this method. Is this what this is? Thanks again. TerryD - I used the encrypted link, but it still shows my hoplink AFTER they click on the link. And I thought that the last person to get a cookie on the buyer's site gets the commission, right? So if they were to see the product and substitute my hoplink with a friend of theirs...then wouldn't the friend get the commission? Since the friend's hoplink was the last to drop a cookie?
That is correct but they would have to use a hoplink to replace your cookie, they couldn't do it by simply cutting off the "?hop=burano" bit. The truth is if they know that they have to replace your cookie by using their own hoplink then it doesn't matter how much cloaking or redirecting you do, they will still be able to use their own hoplink regardless.