TinyURL is it safe?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by mehere, Jun 14, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    Does anyone know if it's safe to use tinyurl.com to "hide" my affiliate links? any bad experiences with this?
     
    mehere, Jun 14, 2005 IP
  2. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    #2
    I tend to look at anything from tinyurl and know it's an affiliate link.

    But normal web users would have a hard time knowing...
     
    SEbasic, Jun 15, 2005 IP
  3. benjones82

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    done me head in, i thought tinyurl was an acyual program/affiliate.

    see what you mean though, iv never clicked on it
     
    benjones82, Jun 18, 2005 IP
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    Why not use JS or something. I thought tinyurl's expired after a certain period of time? Could be wrong.
     
    nddb, Jun 21, 2005 IP
  5. Josh

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    On your sites, use javascript.. something like:

    <a href="http://thesite.com" onclick="window.location='http://thesite.com/?ref=me'">TheSite.com</a>


    Thats what I've done a few times ;) Non-javascript users wont get to the ref. page, but most of the time those sites track people using javascript, so you wouldn't have got it anyway.


    Josh
     
    Josh, Jun 21, 2005 IP
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    I think a better way to do it, might be to hide it, IF they have JS, but don't if they don't.

    Like, on my site, I give something an id, then at the bottom I hide it with js, hide the element, if not it's just there, you can check it out on any of the doctor pages.

    gotta run!
     
    nddb, Jun 21, 2005 IP