Hiding hoplink ID in address bar

Hi

I have a link for clickbank products on Word Press and Blogger. In the posts I'll hyperlink certain words to the link URL, in this case

http://www.quickfireprofits.com/?hop=wxxxx

However when I go to the product landing page, the full URL with my ID is visible in the address bar. Is there anyway of hiding or changing in order to disguise without using html as this is not on my own website. I've tried a couple of software products, but they just use html which is no good for my need.

Please see attachment on what it actually looks like

Many thanks

 

You could always get a framed domain... www.joynic.com I believe. Not a big fan of it, but it does the trick you're looking for.

 

Most of the affiliate marketers of CB suffer from this hoplink disadvantage. Me too looking for a good alternative.

 

Invisible Popup trick : D

 

yeah... it has popups... but you can disable them. But like I said before... I never use it anymore!

 

guys, this is such a complex subject and i am working on this in regards to Affiliate Hijacker and how it uses hoplinks.

There is a pitfall using most of the known methods, one of the most commom method is using frames/iframes and "pulling" the content to YOUR url within a frame. Your url would stay then, thus "obscuring" the affiliate link.

Btw. please specifiy what you have in mind in regards to "no html"..so javascript, or PHP would be ok? you can always use something like a PHP redirect

you create a file in notepad

<?php
header("Location: http://www.quickfireprofits.com/?hop=wxxxx");
?>

upload it as quickfireprofits.php

and then just link to it from your site http://mysite.com/quickfireprofits.php

thats the simplest way of URL redirect and your aff id is hidden

 

Some products have already this feature enabled on their website.

For example "Get Google Ads Free". If you follow your hoplink, you will simply end up on a normal page, without anything that says "hoplink=xxx".

Maybe if you contact the vendors of the products, they might share the information. But I am not sure, that they will

 

Some computers which have McAfee s/w loaded in them do not recognize the php redirect. I have noticed that they strip off the affiliate id and on clickbank stats it shows as affiliate=none.

 

strippping affid doesnt make ANY sense. I mean i can see some stupid virus software blocking CB all together...but stripping afflink? where's the logic. I think it might rather be a problem with cookie-settings, that those programs block the cookies.

 

Ok...there seems to be some confusion here...

For one, your link should not be hxxp://www.quickfireprofits.com/?hop=wxxxx
(unless the publisher has set it up to be like that, and gave you that link.)
The proper link should be hxxp://YOUR_ID.PUBLISHER_ID.hop.clickbank.net/

When someone clicks that hoplink, clickbank sets a cookie and then redirects to the publishers page (hxxp://www.quickfireprofits.com) and clickbank adds the ?hop=wxxxx part.
BUT...that hop variable doesn't really do anythig as far as I can tell. It is just there in case someone needs to use it. There are many uses that I will not get into here. but the point is, it doesn't have anythig to do with the sale.

Second...I agree that any AntiVirus/Firewall thing that is causing problems is doig so by blocking cookies from clickbank...not by removing any affiliate links in your urls.

 

"Some computers which have McAfee s/w loaded in them do not recognize the php redirect. I have noticed that they strip off the affiliate id and on clickbank stats it shows as affiliate=none."

It's impossible. Whoever told you this, just forget what he/she said.

 

Phew thanks for all the comments guys

Really appreciate it. JJ407, that was the link given but I know what you mean about the other being the proper link. It does seem to be a sticky subject that hopefully can be sorted out.

Thanks again

 

If that was the link given, I would test it. Some publishers have setup code to allow for linking like that. (I just setup mine in a similair way a few days ago)
But if they did not, it won't work correctly. Just check to make sure the cookie was set by checking the order page and seeing if your affiliate id shows up at the bootom of the page.

 

If you are a vendor, you can easily hide the nickname of affiliate in the addressbar using php, meta refresh etc.
If you are an affiliate it is almost not possible to hide your nickname in the addressbar after you send visitor to the vendor site.

 

The hoplink is not a big problem if you promote unrelated make money online products. What I usually do is very simple:

1) I link the product to the vendors page with a redirect page - see clickbank for more explanation (example below).

I make a redirect page (for example http:www.yoursite.com/productx_merchant.html and that's were I link the product to the vendor.
=======================================
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title> </title>
</head>
<title>Loading page...</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL=youraffilateurl
<script>
url='youraffilateurl';
if(document.images) { top.location.replace(url); }
else { top.location.href=url; }
</script>


<body>
Loading
<a href=youraffilateurl>page</a>...

please wait. <br />

</body>
</html>
=============================================
2) I'm using hoplinks like xxxxxxxx1(aff.name).u(ID tracking), I personally think they convert better.

My 2 cents,
Wiper

 

You lost me on this part...what does that mean?

 

I used Profit Protector to hide aff links

download the free HTML tool here
http://www.measuring-up.com/html-tools/profit-protector.html

 

I use www.shorturl.com for links which are important to me
and I upgrade the link for 1.88 $.

This gives me a full link mask, full meta tags for the masked link
and an easy inerface to Google webmaster tools so I can index this new link

see an example : adfree.hitart.com

Good luck - Speechman

 

I use this re-direct cloaker..not sure if it's what you want but you can try it free
http://www.opoqo.com/AffiliateLinkCloaker/

 

Cloaking the links on your page is pretty easy, and there are tons and tons of options on how to do that. I think the OP was concerned about the hop=USER_ID that clickbank passes to the landing page url.

This is something that the Publisher would have to impliment code to get rid of.

The problem with that is that many newbie affiliates will NOT see their USER_ID anywhere, and assume that the publisher is ripping them off or something. What do you guys think. Should publishers CLEAN the URL?