Well 70% of the people hate to join under an affiliate link,even though they know that Joining under an affliate link will not affect their earnings,but they just don’t join under you!
So for this reason people mask/hide their Affiliate link.This is very useful while marketing your referral link to make good amount of money.
Here are some of the effective ways to hide affiliate/referral link,if you have any doubt then don’t hesitate to ask through comments
1. Website Services to Hide/redirect the link
Their are many website services which redirects your link.Just go to this websites and submit your affiliate link to get a short URL which can be posted on your blog.
- Shorturl
- Tinyurl
- D95
- Zwap
- Global Redirect
- Your new URL
- Bravenet
- Hot redirect
- Tube URL
- Url Redirection
2. Mass php redirect code
Just Open your notepad and type this and change the links
<?PHP if ($o == "1") {$link = http://ANYURLHERE.com;} // Default linkif ($o == "2") {$link = http://ANOTHERLINKHERE.com;}if ($o == "3") {$link = http://AffiliatelinkHERE.com;}if ($o == "4") {$link = http://blogote.com;}header(”Location: $link”); // Jump to the hiddden affiliate URL above
exit();
?>
For example I changed the above links to this
<?PHP
if ($o == “1″) {$link = “http://www.google.com”;} // Default link
if ($o == “2″) {$link = “http://www.yahoo.com”;}
if ($o == “3″) {$link = “http://blogote.com”;}
if ($o == “4″) {$link = “http://www.adbrite.com/mb/landing_both.php?spid=85459&afb=110×32-1″;}header(”Location: $link”); // Jump to the hiddden affiliate URL above
exit();
?>
You can see I have inserted an Adbrite link in the fourth IF line.
Now save this file as Adbrite.php or Links.php.It depends on your choice and the affiliate url
you are using,
After saving,(I saved as adbrite.php) upload it to your wordpress installation directory (Upload to public_html)
You can see the screenshot of this!
Done! Now add this link to your blog post
<a href=http://www.yoursite.com/links.php?o=1>my link</a>
For example - My adbrite referral link
<a href=http://blogote.com/adbrite.php?o=4>Join adbrite and Make money</a>
Demo - Join adbrite and Make money
If you replace 4 (adbrite.php?o=4)to 3 (adbrite.php?o=3) then the link directs to blogote.com.
Using this method you can add any number affiliate link.
3. .htaccess 301 redirect
1. Open your htaccess file and then add this code in the file (Save the file)
Redirect 301 /product http://youraffiliatelinkhere.com?123
2. Viola! Now go to http://yourdomain.com/product ,this URl will be redirected to the affiliate link.Yeah,quiet simple !
4. Html code redirect
This is the method I have used on my other websites, best way to fool people.
<a href="http://www.blogote.com/" onclick="document.location.href = 'http://www.REALURLHERE.com/'; return false;">Go to </a>
For example
<a href="http://www.blogote.com/" onclick="document.location.href = 'http://www.adbrite.com/mb/landing_both.php?spid=85459&afb=110×32-1‘; return false;”>Go to Blogote</a>
Demo - Go to Blogote which redirects to Adbrite.But if you try to open in a new window (open in new tab ) then this doesn’t work and shows error.
5. Another HTML code to hide link
<a href=http://www.blogote.com target = _new onMouseOver=”window.status=’http://blogote.com/2008/resources/best-analytic-tools-for-a-blog.html‘; return true” onMouseOut=”window.status=”; return true”>Rockstar Sid </a>
The above one is almost similar to the 4th html code.if you have any extra redirect code or idea then let me know!




May 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Nice tips..
I use hopurl ( Website Services to Hide/redirect the link)
it ain’t easy to get customer from affiliate..
You need some explanation about product and luck..
May 25th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
@Shy guy - Thats true.. we need to convince them first but these do play a small role (especially in blogging).
Thanks for the comment
May 26th, 2008 at 3:35 am
D95 is the best URL masking tool I have seen for Affiliate Marketing.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
A simple inexpensive way that gives the added benefit of hiding the final URL in the address bar where it could still be changed, is grab a 99 cent info domain from GoDaddy and use forward with masking to point to your affiliate link. For example http://CashStarter.com
June 19th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Sid, I feel the 301 Redirect should be the easiest of all.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am
most people this time knows an affiliate link by just plain observation and visual
if you mask it, they will know that is. i don’t know but maybe it’s just me.
but then these are great finds.