Can anyone recommend a plug in for masking aff links?

Just like it say's. It's time I got around to doing that.
Can anyone recommend a plug in for masking affiliate links in Word Press?

Thanks in advance:0

OH! and NOT Tinyurl. (It's been overdone by spammers)

 

I always did a 301 url redirect in my .htaccess

redirect 301 affilatelforringtones.html http://www.yourdomain.com/ringtones.html

the first part is your jumbled affilate link and the second park is the masking

 

I don't understand how to do that. If you have a moment I would appreciate it.

 

If what you want to do is to mask the destination page in the status bar, you can write your link this way :

<a href="http://www.example.com" onmouseover="window.status=' ';return true;">anchor</a>

Code (markup):

For a PHP script, here is one : http://www.stevedawson.com/article0006.php (didn't try it)

 

I think I get that , thanks.

 

So I have to do this with each individual link? Seriously, isn't there a plug in? I have a lot of links.

 

I use php for this. All my aff links are /recommends/affprogram, so you have to have a folder named recommends, then inside the recommends folder you would need a seperate folder for each program ex: /recommends/yourprogram , inside the folder yourprogram you need an index.php with this inside

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yourprogram.com/affcode' ) ;
?>

Code (markup):

then your link would look like yoursite.com/recommends/yourprogram
would redirect to yourprogram.com/affcode

Good luck

 

OK, so I have to have a separate folder for every affiliate link on my blog.
If I have 50 products from the same affiliate, I need 50 different folders?

And I just need that code..that's it, and it will change the mouse over view of my links. I don't need to ad anything else, like what I want the mouse over to look like.
It does it on it's own? Or does it take it from the name of the folder?

 

Each affiliate program would need a separate folder inside recommends.
When inserting a link you would use http://yoursite.com/recommends/affprog
that is also the link people would see when they mouse over.
Attached is an example.

Good luck

 

Thanks MarRome. I will work on it now.

 

Where exactly do I install this folder?

 

the root folder of your blog

 

OK, trying it now, thanks

 

I must be doing something wrong, it's not working

<EDIT>
OK, I finally understand it now.. I got it! Thanks MarRome. Big help and reps
No...it's not.. It worked for one link, but not the rest

 

sorry for not getting back to you eairler hmansfield.

this is a bit more work for your 50 links, but it works for me.

In your .htaccess add in:

redirect 301 /productyouarewantingtoaffilate.html http://www.domain.com/dkd783ljgv82hglj28

Code (markup):

so as a real url:

 redirect 301 /basketballs.html http://www.espn.com/?ljdogh98yh9787h

Code (markup):

so all you would need to do is like a word or phrase to /basketballs.html

I Pmed you a demo also.

 

I will check it out, thanks for your time, and help.