make links look like they go to my own site.

I have a site with a lot of outgoing links to a site i am affiliate at. I would like to make all that links look like the goes to my own site.

Example.

This is what I have now:
example.com/1/711-37038-2478-0/1?AID=10434577&PID=2934555&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F-bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS%3AB%3ASRCH%3AUS%3A102

This is somehow how I want it to be:
mysite.com/item/bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477

Thanks. Green rep to answers

 

Well. An example of .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /item/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule (.+?)/$	/item/index.php?item=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule (.+?)$	/item/index.php?item=$1 [L,QSA]

Code (markup):

It will redirect all requests like /item/bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477/
/item/index.php and in this script you will have $_GET['item'] variable value of
"bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477"

After that you can chose where to send your visitor either selecting necessary url from database or just use this value as a part or url like

header("Location: http://example.com/item.php?item=".$_GET['url']");

PHP:

 

Sorry, I dont understand what you mean.

When I point the mouse pointer on :
example.com/1/711-37038-2478-0/1?AID=10434577&PID=2934555&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F-bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS%3AB%3ASRCH%3AUS%3A102
will the browser then show:
mysite.com/item/bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477
?

This is my current .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

How should I add your code?

 

Ok, in details.
Create /item/ folder in root of your site.
Put .htaccess file from my previous post there.
Make a file index.php with the following contents:

if ($_GET['url'] != "") header("Location: http://example.com/1/711-37038-2478-0/1?AID=10434577&PID=2934555&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F-".$_GET['url']."QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS%3AB%3ASRCH%3AUS%3A102");
else
// redirect empty queries to homepage
 header("Location: http://mysite.com");

PHP:

After that any link to mysite.com/item/bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477 will redirect your visitor to example.com/ with necessary url.

Or maybe I did not understand your question.
If you want to hide status line of browser when you hover over a link - it is a javascript question.
If you want to show your site address and display contents of example.com - then use iframe or fetch other site content.

 

Well. I want the SE`s to think that I link to my inner pages, but when clicked the links goes to site that I am affiliated to.
Like in this site: chainsaw-store.com/Gas-Chainsaws/Poulan-Chainsaws

 

With mod rewrite you can change the way your links will look, but for that you need to have an understanding of how .htaccess files work which AsHinE is trying to show.

One more option is there of JavaScript from which you can make SE believe its your internal link, as SE spiders only href tag not the Javascript itself.

Here how to do it.

Eg:

<a href="mysite.com/item/" onclick="window.location='http://www.externallinksite.com'+this.href; return false">External Link</a>

Here the SE will spider href link only and will ignore JavaScript link. But you need to handle your internal link addresses provide in href, else SE spiders will get broken links.

Other way of doing it is, you can make the pages of all your affiliate links and write an redirect code it that files for actual affiliate link location.

eg. affiliate.php
URL: mysite.com/affiliate.php

Now write PHP header redirect of affiliate link in affiliate.php file.

This techniques do work but requires labour work, so its better to use mod rewrite. Rewrite can change the way your link look, but they cannot get trigger on click event, as on click it will lead you to the link web server and .htaccess has no action on that.

Gonzo

 

Well, they are redirecteing users as I wrote:

Location: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-37018-2978-0/1?AID=10420677&PID=2789618&SID=Gas+Chainsaws+Poulan+Chai&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2FPOULAN-PRO-330-CHAINSAW-with-22-CHAINSAW-BAR-AND-CHAIN_W0QQitemZ110232742544QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS%3AB%3ASRCH%3AUS%3A101

Code (markup):

It is a part of response from server when I clicked this link

http://chainsaw-store.com/item/POULAN-PRO-330-CHAINSAW-with-22-CHAINSAW-BAR-AND-CHAIN_W0QQitemZ110232742544

Code (markup):

I described how to do this in previous posts.

 

As AsHinE has said what you want to do is create a new directory in the root of your website named 'item'. So you have mysite.com/item/.

Into this 'item' directory put the following '.htaccess' file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z0-9_]*)/?$ index.php?id=$1

Code (markup):

Also put the following 'index.php' file into the 'item' directory:

<?php

// List links here - no comma on the end of the last one
$links = Array(
               'bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477' => 'http://www.example.com/1/711-37038-2478-0/1?AID=10434577&PID=2934555&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F-bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS%3AB%3ASRCH%3AUS%3A102',
               'llama' => 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama',
               'alpaca' => 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca'
              );

// If link recognised set it as the one to redirect to
if (!empty($_GET['id']) && array_key_exists($_GET['id'], $links)) {
  $link = $links[$_GET['id']];
}
else {
  // No link recognised so default to your own home page
  $link = 'http://www.mysite.com';
}

// Send redirect header
header("Location: $link");

?>

PHP:

Now any time you go to 'mysite.com/item/xyz' then you will get redirected the the address listed in 'index.php' for 'xyz'. If 'xyz' is not listed then you will go to your home page.

There are three example links in 'index.php' to give you an idea of how to add your own. For example 'mysite.com/item/llama' will redirect to 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama'. You can add as many affiliate redirects as you like this way.

You can then just update the anchor tags in your web site so instead of, for example:

<a href="http://www.example.com/1/711-37038-2478-0/1?AID=10434577&PID=2934555&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F-bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS%3AB%3ASRCH%3AUS%3A102">

HTML:

you put:

<a href="/item/bass-thumb-orig_W0QQitemZ360039999477">

HTML:

Then the links appear to go to your site but actually redirect to the affiliate link.

Many search engines will follow these redirects though, so if you don't want that to happen then stop them indexing anything in the 'item' directory by placing this 'robots.txt' file in the document root of your website:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /item/

Code (markup):

(If you have a robots.txt already then just add this directive to it).