i've seen programs that claim to hide your affilate link. i'm not talking about using PHP or javascript redirects. like if you had an affilate link like this... http://www.website.com?afid=34503 but it can change it to: http://www.website.com does that really work?
Here's a brief write-up with a few ways to do it: 3 Free Ways to Shorten Affiliate URLs Excluding PHP and Javascripts, there is TinyUrl as mentioned above and a couple of WordPress plugins.
you can't change it to website.com of course, but you could change it to http://yoursite.com/go/website.com, or even shorter, http://yoursite.com/w/ Do a little google for "mod_rewrite", and you'll have all the information you need!
yea i know those methods. it's i just recently a sales page for a link cloaker that is able to take an affilate link and remove anything related to the affilate link so it looks like a regular link. no sub directories or anything. www.website.com?affiliateid=33245 into www.website.com and still get credit. just wondering how they are able to do that.
hello chodomade, the process in the example given by you is: when you click on the first link, the site will set a cookie with the affiliate id in the visitor's computer and redirects to the main web site. Then, affiliate will get credit if visitor purchases anything from that site because the cookies was set with that affiliate id.
i found the proggie... ninjalinkcloaker.com - scroll down a bit and you'll see his written example of how you can make links on your page look like regular links but somehow get your affiliate cookie in. i'm not sure how that's possible....
I searched for a review and this is what I found! http://cbtool.w-shadow.com/blog/2007/06/17/note-on-ninjalinkcloaker/ This was to good to be true