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Clickbank hoplink cloaking

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by bl4ckmaN^, Mar 25, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Recently I cloaked all my hoplinks on my website using HTML redirect. Before I had almost all my reviews indexed in Google.

    After cloaking the links, I can find only 3-4 reviews of my 30 in Google :confused:

    The reviews were indexed before cloaking the links, so the only thing that comes to my mind that Google didn't like something in cloaking :(

    I used Clickbank's suggested HTML redirect to cloak my links:

    You can find it here - http://www.clickbank.com/affiliate_tools.html#Affiliate_Tools_2

    What should I do know?? I can't believe that html redirect is the problem....
     
    bl4ckmaN^, Mar 25, 2008 IP
  2. andrew1056

    andrew1056 Peon

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    I'm sure that clickbanks suggested html has made it's way into googles algorithm. I would use a PHP redirect with a 301 redirect. This tells google that the page has moved and you shouldn't get penalized... I haven't yet. It's not easy to outsmart google as their algorithm is constantly improving. I personally don't use cloaked links as tests that I've conducted show a negligible difference in sales.
     
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  3. toby

    toby Notable Member

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    why not simply do a mouse overlay? that means when mouse goes over your anchor text, it will shows differently?
     
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    argothiusz Well-Known Member

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    Haha, that is clever. I never thought about it. -_-
     
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  5. bl4ckmaN^

    bl4ckmaN^ Well-Known Member

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    #5
    andrew1056

    So should I try using PHP redirect? Is the one below fine?

    toby

    I want to use something simple ;)
     
    bl4ckmaN^, Mar 26, 2008 IP
  6. nadavs

    nadavs Active Member

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    Yes, use php redirects. They work great for me, and they also allow you to change the address quickly in case you want to switch a publisher instead of replacing many separate links.
    nadavs
     
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  7. wiper

    wiper Peon

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    I'm always using html redirects and have no problem with Google indexing.
     
    wiper, Mar 26, 2008 IP
  8. Fisker

    Fisker Well-Known Member

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    I would like th answer to that question too :)

    Can we use that code or should we use i frames ??
     
    Fisker, Mar 26, 2008 IP
  9. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #9
    You are using javascript to redirect the user. Google does not read or understand javascript.
     
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  10. bl4ckmaN^

    bl4ckmaN^ Well-Known Member

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    mikey1090

    Thanks for help.

    If I take out the "script" bit from the coding, will it work fine?

     
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  11. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    No. The red code is the stuff thats doing the redirect. Your users will just see a html link and "loading" if you remove that.
     
    mikey1090, Mar 26, 2008 IP
  12. TheForexGuy

    TheForexGuy Well-Known Member

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    How about doing redirects in htaccess?

    How I redirect through htaccess is make an anchor link with the clickbank publisher id as part of the anchor url:
    http://www.mywebsite.com/re/water4gas/

    The apache address takes the clickbank publisher id and changes it over:
    http://yourid.?.hop.clickbank.net

    performs a modRewrite rule to put the publisher id where the ? is and redirects to that site.
    Tom
     
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  13. andrew1056

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    Here's what I do. I make a php page which accepts to GET variables pub & tid. Your link looks like this:

    example.com/page.php?pub=publisher&tid=10

    Than I make a php script:

    $pub = $_GET['pub'];
    $tid = $_GET['tid'];

    $url = "http://affiliate." . $pub . ".hop.clickbank.net?tid=" . $tid;

    Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
    Header( "Location:" $url);

    It works great for me and is relatively simple to implement.
     
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    thanks. that helped
     
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    For my links I just use a simple HTML redirect:

    <html>
    <head>
    <meta name = "robots" content = "noindex,nofollow">
    <meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=TARGET URL GOES HERE'>
    </head>
    </html>

    Only requires a single change in code, and google doesn't get pissed off since the page isn't indexed by crawlers.
     
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  16. andrew1056

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    I made a mistake in my code

    Header( "Location:" $url);

    it should be this:

    Header( "Location:" . $url);
     
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  17. bl4ckmaN^

    bl4ckmaN^ Well-Known Member

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    I decided to use this simple PHP redirect

    Will it be alright for search engines?
     
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  18. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #18
    The search engines will see it as a permanent redirect and will not index the page where that code is used.
     
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    That'll work just fine. I add the 301 redirect because google won't index that page and you really don't want them to.
     
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  20. bl4ckmaN^

    bl4ckmaN^ Well-Known Member

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    mikey1090

    Oh, no :( I think I need start using Tinyurl :D
     
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