Does anybody know of a good affordable or free affiliate link cloaking software or method that I can use on my sites?
Well in the mean time I received the following private message from 626DESIGN: "paypal $30 bucks to and ill emial you the program. __________________ http://www.626design.com" He never said what program, just send him or her $30. That's it. Maybe this person means well but after all this is the Internet and you can never be too safe. I'm new here but is this how you guys interact?
well i have an ebook about cloaking affiliate link. can't sell it, because i don't have rights, but i can point you to it (i have an affiliate link for that, cloaked obviously )
yoursite.com/aff_link would redirect to your affiliate link instead of pointing directly. Users will mouse over the link and it will look like it's your site, and it also hides the exact link code. We use Joomla + OpenSEF, both free but may be overkill for what you are looking to do.
Take a look at Manage Affiliate Links, its a new software out that checks your links and redirects dead, expired, or broken links to a backup link of your choice. Great if you are running a campaign from a network that has very similar offers like all those diet offers available. The software has lots of other great features too.
Why buying softwares or scripts for cloaking? if you can do it with individual PHP files or even with your root .htaccess file as well. Here is a link for tutorial, you might like it:- http://www.moreniche.com/tutorials/hide-affiliate-links.php
Take a look at SEO Affiliate Links software from PA-Scripts. Create SEO Friendly Affiliate Links using .htaccess. This script was created as a simple and fast way to cloak/hide affiliate links using .htaccess. View Demo Its Free to download
You can register a free account with: http://offto.net/ The site belongs to Jonathan Leger, a well known IM. Hope this will help you.