I'm asking all the CJ affiliate users if I could mask or hide an affiliate link from the Comission Junction.
yes you can create a file in notepad called your product.html put this in: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Your product</title> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://youraffiliatelink"> </head> <body> </body> </html> then your link on your site would go to www.yoursite.com/yourproduct.html this looks a lot nicer than the usual cj type link and very simple
you don't understand what I'm talking about do you? I'm asking if Commission Junction is allowing the masking of affiliate links.
and you did not read my response did you??? first line of my post answers your question and then I show how you can do it. I thought it was all pretty simply put. In hindsight I really don't know why I bothered.
When you do your trick do I use the JUST the HTML link? into: http://youraffiliatelink, or the whole javascript, just confirming. I am pretty sure I know answer.
I like to use the wordpress plugin "wp-affiliate" it's great and why not just use a tiny url script to mask the links I've done that a few times a well and they work just fine
you use the name of the file that you created in notebook as shown above and then uploaded to your server, this code contains your affiliate link.
Thanks for that helpful info. Is there a disadvantage in NOT cloaking the affiliate links? I mean can people rip you off like with Clickbank links?
I would like to know this also. I know some sites do not allow unmasked affiliate links (ezinearticles, etc.), but what other reasons would you mask your affiliate links?
After doing this, can I use: www.yoursite.com/yourproduct.html in the websites that do not belong to me? Thanks,
if you are asking if you can use the link www.yoursite.com/yourproduct.html where yoursite in the above example is actually your own website and you are putting this link on a third party website then you may have to be careful as I believe its against some advertisers terms if not CJ's terms that you can only put affiliate links on your own website and not 3rd party sites such as craigslist. this is an interesting point, technically, as the actual affiliate link would be on your own site you should be OK, to play safe howevere I guess I would not risk it, up to you, or others may have different points of view.
I think its a trust issue, for example if you wanted to apply for a mortgage and were on a site asking you to "click here" to apply and on mouse over you saw www.dpbolvw.net/click-2723827-1206991 would you rather click on that or would you rather click on www.unionbank/applyloan.html??
A friend of mine is working on a server side php program with a friendly interface that does the redirects, and much more. I will try to get him over here with his software and make it available to those who need it. I think he's going to give it out for free when he's ready.
yes you can , and there a lot of methods how you can do it using javascript or php or just simply tinyurl hope that helps
also masking in PHP is possible create file link.php to link.php add your cj code for example > http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-0000000-10000000 should looks like: <?php header("Location:http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-0000000-10000000.php"); ?>
Wow, OP was rude. mcjp6 thanks for the info I've been searching the web on how to do this for a while.
Do NOT use HTML meta redirects - these strip the referrers, which is against CJ's TOS (or will at least get your account flagged). Use PHP redirects like arrisweb mentioned above. You do not need to worry about advertisers' marketing teams stealing your keywords - CJ strips all query strings, so advertisers will only see the engine that the traffic came from.