How To Cloak Affiliate Links
When doing affiliate marketing you will want to cloak or redirect your ugly affiliate links.
Here are several ways to do this including our quick free desktop software for cloaking/redirecting links.
You will need to be able to upload (ftp) a file to your domain to do this. Links to the webs best free ftp software & a tutorial are included in this post.
First here is a quick video on using our affiliate link cloaking software. The download link is right below the video.
Free Affiliate Link Cloaker
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/LinkCloaker.zip
As shown in the video we have converted our affiliate link from:
http://digiweb.bryxen4.hop.clickbank.net/
to…
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Keyword-Elite.htm
&
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes-Keyword-Elite.htm
Another way to do this is to use an online cloaker like this one:
http://sparechangeprofits.com/plr-cloaker/
The nice thing about this one is you can use it from anywhere you have an online connection and even if the site disappears it will still work.
http://tinyurl.com is another online cloaker but the site will need to be up & active for your links to work.
To use an ht.access solution which works quite well see this online tutorial http://afreelinkcloaker.com/ the tutorial can be downloaded from the top nav bar.
Here is a simple php redirect code that is reliable. Simply copy and paste this code in notepad then save as index.php > make a folder on your domain using filezilla such as Likes & upload the file to the folder. Replace the url >http://tomdean.net< with the url you want to redirect to.
<?php
header( ‘Location: http://tomdean.net’ ) ;
?>
Here is an example in use:
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes
Below are the download links for Filezilla & the tutorial on using it.
Download Filezilla
Filezilla Tutorial
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/documentation/
One last thing… if you don’t want to pay for a software program that tracks our links like this one Link Cloaker with Tracking
you can use google analytics or our favorite Clicky a free service that will track one domain and includes a wordpress plugin to use on your blog that makes things super easy.
Here is a screen shot of the Clicky Dashboard (note to track Twiter links you would have to upgrade to a paid account $4.99 monthly).
Hope this helps,
Cheers – Tom
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