How do you mask aff. urls ?

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by JohnMally, Sep 16, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    How is it possible to mask aff. urls ? from your visitors ?

    Thanks
     
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  2. Lastbutnotleast

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    You can use frames but be sure that sales are correctly tracked
     
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    php redirects work. depends what you want to do. if you're using ebay, check out phpBay Pro and it does it all for you.
     
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    You can do it with a meta redirect page:

    
<html>
<head>
<meta name = "robots" content = "noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=http://affiliateURLgoeshere.com'>
</head>
</html>
    Code (markup):
     
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    This is a redirect process - fine ;)

    But this does not hide affiliate urls
     
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    It does if you format your redirects correctly, for instance it could display as http://www.yourdomain.com/redirect/www.topdomainofaffiliateprogram.com in the status bar, and then people typically don't think that it is an affiliate link, just a regular redirect.
     
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    if you use wordpress there is a plugin which does good job. ;)
     
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    You can use .htaccess redirect in your hosting account - it works and is reliable.
     
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    I just posted this the other day...but I'll post it again!

    There is a lot of speculation that having a lot of affiliate links on your page may hurt your SE rank, so it's a good idea to mask your links. I prefer using subdomains with php redirects.

    For instance, let's say you have a dating banner ad, but you want its link to be masked. You could create a subdomain called "dating" on your existing site (http://dating.yoursite.com) and then upload a php file in the subdomain directory with the following code:

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

Header( "Location: http://www.YOURAFFILIATELINK.com" );
?>
    PHP:
    Then you simply link the dating banner to http://dating.yoursite.com.

    That way your link looks clean, and there is no affiliate link to be found on your site. Even if the SE's are looking for php redirects (which I don't think they care about just yet), they will see it on your subdomain, which is technically considered a separate site, so it still won't affect your main site's rank.
     
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