To hide the external links

How can I hide the external links ?

some website use one redirect, to hide the link
(example online-casinos use this lnk
http://www.online-casinos.com/goto/bodogcasino.htm for the website bodgocasino .... )

what I should do ? should I do redirect 301 ?

 

You could. Just create a referrer link ( like www.example.com/referrer/?id=321 for instance) and then 301 that link to the actual affiliate page.

 

Dan gave you a good pis of advice. another thing you can do is to use tiny url but that would only work if your affiliate link is small.

 

I don't trust TinyURL links - and I doubt many average people (ie: your "Joe Sixpack" types) do either.

 

Hello,

Yes you can do it with PHP:
Ie:
Your link:

yourwebsite.com/redirect.php?get=online-casinos

On redirect.php file you can write something like:
<?
$get=$_GET["get"];
if ($get=="online-casinos")
{
$url="http://www.online-casinos.com/goto/bodogcasino.htm ";
header("Location:".$url);
}
?>

Of course you an use the htaccess to write your url to make something like:

yourwebsite.com/online-casinos/ or
yourwebsite.com/online-casinos.html

Then you will get the value online-casinos in your redirect.php file.

this is a quick example, you can do it dynamic getting information from a database, text file, etc, but it is a quick reference. :=)

Best regards,
Jakomo