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HI I am a NEWBEE I was wondering what is a good site for masking affiliate links for FREE? Appreciate the input

 

www.tinyurl.com - I'm not sure if this is used to mask affiliate links, but I know this is used to shorten URL's in general. This should work with any links you through at it as far as I know.

 

You planning on spamming?

Then why would you want to hide the fact it is an affiliate link?

Besides, nearly everyone does not know how to recognize one, so....

 

I use http://snipurl.com/
works great! I know if you are using twitter then short links help out a lot...

 

you can find a lot of short url websites here . However, I am not sure if u can use them to mask your aff links ..

 

Why do you want to do this? Hopefully you won't do it on this forum

 

Any URL shortening service will work for masking aff links... I've been using tinyurl for that purpose...

 

Here's a whole slew of them to choose from:
http://www.squidoo.com/best-free-url-redirection-url-forwarding

 

Personally I like cli.gs because you can track the number of click-throughs.

 

Always used tinyurl for everything, specially for twitter.

 

You have to shorten your url for some sites such as Twitter. Otherwise the link won't fit in your tweet.

On another note, has anyone checked to make sure that they are getting credit for the affiliate sale when using sites such as tinyurl.com? I have my own jewelry store on Amazon, and I also have an affiliate link for my store. I have asked customers where they found me and some have said that they clicked on the tinyurl link and purchased that way. Since the sales are my own products, I know what the people bought. And none of the products are showing up in the affiliate section as sales. It says right on tinyurl.com that you can shorten your affiliate link. But I don't think it works very well. Has anyone been following to see if their affiliate link changed to shortened link is working properly?

 

If the affiliate link's too long, it can look really ugly and not fit into an email. Using a service like Tiny URL can give you a pretty link, with your choice of keyword.

 

I would definitely use tinurl. The only time i use it is when i am placing long affiliate links in email. Other than that i leave the links how they are.

 

I like www.cli.gs
it's pretty handy

 

I use http://bit.ly

 

i use tinyurl for redirect and offto.net for redirect + masking

 

I sometimes use simurl.com - tracks clicks too.

 

>> offto.net for redirect + masking

any other options for redirect + masking ?

i don't like their homepage talk so much about affiliate link, affiliate program and marketing, etc.

I prefer their home page just talk about shortening the URLs only

Other Short URLs services

 

tinyurl or notlong will do just fine

 

Show me some examples of affiliate links that are considered too long.

By the way, you do not need to show the code in a specific affiliate link anyway. You can put that code in two words.

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