Affiliate link cloaking

looking for a free Affiliate link cloaking script.
a script that work that way www.mysite.com/amazon-product lead to www.amazon.com/myaffiliateid..etc..

I see it in some websites I would like to start useing it on my site, I also believe it's good for seo, am I wrong? what's the benfit of useing it...and of course where I can find this script?

 

Why would you want it? It doesn't help SEO as it is simply a redirect, it appears normal but the engine still follows the link with the tracking embedded

 

So search engines will not index this URL? I was thinking I can create A url with keywords targeting and maybe get the url indexed...I do see sometimes redirecting urls from CJ indexed by google...

 

i like the idea so that hopeful customers don't see the extra code in the status bar of your browser. makes them feel a bit more secure about following the link.
my 2 cents.

 

<A HREF="http://www.mysite.com/amazon-product" REL="nofollow"  TARGET="_top" ONMOUSEOVER="window.status='http://www.amazon.com/myaffiliateid';return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="window.status=' ';return true;">Amazon Product</A>

Code (markup):

If you're writing a review it looks more credible.

 

Great point, absolutely true
I suppose I was asking what the assumption was about a benefit to SEO

 

I am not sure here why you would care about the SEO implications of an affiliate link. Your role is to get as many people to click it and get some sales. SEO is the last thing if anything to have a look at in this particular part of affiliate marketing for a page. Those results you see for the CJ stuff for example should not last long in the SERPs.

If you do want to make it look good, try the coding above, or a free product such as Click Counter will do the same job plus give you stats as well on how many times that link got clicked.

 

Search engines don't like sites to be full of affiliate links. As long as you only have a few on each page then you might be OK.

 

Not free, but I like Jim Edwards Affiliate Link Cloaker. I am no techhie so it works for me.

 

Well I don't know about your webhosting service, but mine comes with a redirect manager, which makes cloaking links quite easy...

 

I'm not coder and scripter,but what I do is I use:
onlyfor7dollar.com/bannerbuddy
It is Banner maker in txt file or html.
So I just place www.amazon.com/affiliateID in destination address and in show up text I'm putting www.amazon.com
easy and works great.
I use another technik as well
I just making new folder(or subdomain on your choice)
example:
Folder: /Amazon
Creating index.php in that folder and paste :

<script>
url='http://www.onlyfor7dollar.com/foronly7';
if(document.images) { top.location.replace(url); }
else { top.location.href=url; }
</script>

Loading
<a href="http://www.onlyfor7dollar.com/foronly7">page</a>...

Just change on different website red letters

that's simple redirect and most cases dosent show redirection and aff. links.

 

Along the lines of onlyfor7dollar said, you can use a php script.

Let's say you have an affiliate link for shoes. Open a text file named shoes.php and place the following in the file:

<?php header("Location: http://YourAffiliateLink");
?>

UPload the file to your site.

Now you can refer to the file for your affiliate link. It would look like:

<a href="http://Yoursite.com/shoes.php">Buy Shoes Here</a>

That way noone sees you affiliate link.

Hope this helps.

Stavra

 

That code I put up earlier (to hide the url in the status bar) is now obsolete (just checked). It doesn't work with IE 7.0, sorry.

I know Joe Bucks has a new code where you put a Javascript on your site that inserts a cookie and then you could use any link to the site and still get a commission. That's undetectable but Joebucks has to make that code available.

 

you can put all redirection page into 1 directory and specify in robot.txt and tell search engine to stay away from that directory