How to hide affiliate urls

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    How do you hide affiliate urls in your website? Some urls are just too long.
     
    Bohol, Mar 4, 2008 IP
  2. nonyf

    nonyf Guest

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    I've heard cloaking can imapct your SEO or search engine results? Does anyone know if that's true? Thanks.
     
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    Crux Well-Known Member

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    cloak your links. i have not seen any problems with this method with regards to SEO. Google's spider can still read the destination URL.
     
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  5. Bohol

    Bohol Peon

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    The urls in commission junction don't look beautiful. :) How can we beautify these urls?
     
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    scottspfd82 Active Member

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    PHP redirect. 

    <?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>
    PHP:
    Stick your link in, rename the file whatever.php, and link to that page on your server.
     
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    making redirect with your .htacess can be an alternative
     
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    kittyluver Notable Member

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    Just mask the URL using sites like tinyurl.com and urlshort.com

    If you want to cloak the URL completely, please do use the following JAVA code-

    
merchant-url-goes-here.com";
return true' onMouseOut='window.status="Done"; return true'
href="http://www.affiliate-url-goes-here.com" target="_blank">TEXT GOES
HERE</a>

This link will display the http://www.merchant-url-goes-here.com in the
status bar at the bottom of your browser, hiding the
http://www.affiliate-url-goes-here.com.
    Code (markup):
     
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  9. Bohol

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    Thank you Scott and Kitty for the tutorial. Green reps for both of you. :)
     
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    I use WP Affiliate Pro. It hasn't affected my SEO at all.
     
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    Shazz Prominent Member

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    Great tips!

    But how to decide the affiliate url ?
    Redirect to 'Keyword Link'? Other links have pictures.

    Thanks for the info.
     
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  13. blazwww

    blazwww Well-Known Member

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    HTML Redirect

    Another easy way to do hide your code, that doesn’t require a certain OS. Create a file called john.htm and type this in.

    <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Taking you to johnchow.com website</TITLE> <meta
    http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://johnchow.com?ref=justin">
    </HEAD> <BODY>Please stand by.</BODY> </HTML>

    You just need to create a new HTML file for each of your affiliate program.
     
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    Another question, is it ok to change the text of 'Text Link'?

    Thanks!
     
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  15. Bohol

    Bohol Peon

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    Can I upload this file in the server, so it would look like this mydomain.com/john.html.
     
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    yes

    regards,

    b
     
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    Protect your affiliate revenue with Affiliate Link Protector.
     
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    postdeals Banned

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    which is what?
     
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    Do articles sites such as ezinearticles accept articles with links that are redirected?
     
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