Cloaking Links

I don't know if the word cloaking is the right word for what I am trying to do but I am new to this. When posting in forums and blogs I don't want people to right click on my link (ex. mywebsite.com/myaffiliate) and show my affiliate link (http//chingo.xxxxx.hop.clickbank.net). If they right click I want it to show (ex. mywebsite.com/myaffiliate) but still go to the actual affiliate. I hope I explained this properly. What can I do to make this happen?

 

you can use a frame set on your website this is how cloaking works. Or you can use a header redirect in php

 

What about in a forum?

 

There isn't any way to hide the text of the link on a forum or blog that you do not control.

If you want to hide it, you'll need to post a link to a site that you do control in the forums or blogs, and hide the link on your own site.

However, no matter what you do, it will remain obvious to anyone with experience that an affiliate link has been followed.

I suppose you could run the traffic to your site and reverse-proxy it to the affiliate link, but that is probably a more in-depth solution than you want to deal with, and may add latency to the browsing experience. It will also multiply your bandwidth consumption.

How badly do you need to hide links?

 

Thanks for the responses so far. Looks like I am getting closer to finding out what I need to do. It's not very critical to hide the links but I would like to learn how to do this. I want to do exactly what this guy did. He put a link in a forum looking like it is his website but it directs you to an affiliate site. Here is the link he posted:

buynick.com/dropship.htm

 

well that's a redirect, but you have to own your own website and be able to make a html page. You can also use free services like notlong or tinyurl or shorturl that make your url smaller and hide the target url

 

I have my own hosting and web sites. I can make an html page but don't know how to redirect. Where can I find out more info about this?

 

Try searching google for header redirect

Here is a simple redirect

<?php
header("Location: http://the.target.url");
?>

PHP:

of course replace the.target.url with your aff link...