I've just been browsing through clickbank, and checked out the sales page of one merchant who says 'no framed URLs allowed'. What is a framed URL? I am currently cloaking my URLs using php redirect, would it be right to call it a framed URL? I don't want visitors to see my clickbank ID firstly because it looks ugly and will put them off buying from me but also commisions can be stolen this way.
I'm not sure what they mean, but when you have a site built in frames, then all the pages within that site have the same URL. This sucks balls for anyone who wants to bookmark a page, for instance. However, you can keep your urls unique and still hide your special id thingie (I dunno nothing about clickbank) using mod_rewrite (on Apache servers). You can possibly also do it with your PHP script. You would need to learn some regular expressions, I don't know if you know them. But in general, any pages with the id, you could just change every instance of the id to some piece of text you like. Even unicorns. example.com/blah/blah/unicorns/stuff or just remove that part. Here's a very very old article about prettying your URLs in general: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/urls/ but you will find a ton of information if you look up "pretty urls" in google. Cause lots of people are like you and hate ugly urls. People aren't necessarily turned off by them, they are used to them, but pretty ones are nicer. Likely there are also pre-written PHP modules. Drupal users, for instance, have access to a pre-written module called PrettyURLs (yeah creative name). You might be able to find one for you if you're more comfortable with PHP.