Hiding Affiliate Links

I'd love to hear some suggestions on what are the best ways to hide affiliate links on my wordpress blog.

I've seen some use a wordpress plugin but if that plugin stops working in a later version of wordpress, it would mean a lot of recoding.

What other options are there to hide the links?

 

check out this free plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-affiliate/

 

Hey buddy i want to know that is it necessary to hide them , do affiliate link can harm our rankings and serp .

 

Create a subdomain (subdomain.yoursite.com) and upload a .php file to the root of that subdomain with the following code:

<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );

Header( "Location: http://affiliatelink.com" );
?>

PHP:

You then use the subdomain in the place of your aff link. For instance, if it's for a green tea offer, you might want to use the subdomain "greentea.yoursite.com".

This will automatically forward that subdomain to your affiliate link.

Obviously you'll want to change "http://affiliatelink.com" to your actual affiliate link. This way you can mask your links nice and neatly on your site. The user will never see them.

 

Will this be beneficial towards SEO or hurt your rankings?

 

This is the one I use for in-content aff. links:

Or you can create a folder and put Disallow in robots.txt for that folder. Then create a file for each affiliate link that contains a PHP redirect to your aff. link. The actual link would point to the file.

 

Use TinyURL.com to hide link, its easy.

 

firefox with noscript addon will block the javascript and http meta redicrect, php redirect is better.

 

there are various plugins like wp-affiliate