Well 70% of the people hate to join under an affiliate link, even though they know that Joining under an affiliate link will not affect their earnings – but they just don’t join under you!
So for this reason people mask Affiliate link. This is very useful while marketing your referral link to make good amount of money online. Sometimes people mask product links and also other payment gateway, this can be helpful without a doubt.
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
Websites to Mask Affiliate URLS
There are many website services which redirects your affiliate links. Just go to these websites and submit your affiliate link to get a shortended URL that can be used on blog or sales page.
- Shorturl
- Tinyurl
- D95
- Zwap
- Global Redirect
- Your new URL
- Bravenet
- Hot redirect
- Tube URL
- Url Redirection
Mass PHP Redirect Code For Affiliate
Just Open your notepad and use this code. For example, I’ve changed and added this links…
<?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://bangaloreloka.com”;}header(“Location: $link”); // Jump to the hiddden affiliate URL above
exit();
?>
You can see that I have inserted an different urls depending on the number 1, 2, 3, 4.
Now save this file as links.php or anything you feel like. It’s your choice! After saving (I saved as links.php) upload it to your wordpress installation directory. Done! Now whenever you want to redirect your affiliate link or mass it, just add this link to your blog post
<a href=http://www.yoursite.com/links.php?o=1>My link</a>
This will redirect and present the visitors with the first link (in my case it is Google.com). Pretty easy and you can mass bulk affiliate links for your website or product landing page.
Affiliate .htaccess 301 redirect
- Open your htaccess file and then add this code in the file (Save the file)
Redirect 301 /product http://youraffiliatelinkhere.com?123
- Now go to http://yourdomain.com/product, this URl will be redirected to the affiliate link.Yeah,quiet simple !
HTML Redirect For Affiliate URL
This is the method I have used on my other websites, best way to fool people
lol..
<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=110x32-1'; return false;">Go to Blogote</a>
Written by Sid
The innocent mastermind and the editor of this blog, I am a 19 year old 'normal' kid. With 2+ years of blogging experience and web research, I've enjoyed my share of success and happiness through blogging and strive my best to provide clear ideas on tech.

Thanks for these tips! They are all great since I use various different technologies. I found that No. 4 Html code redirect – works the best in my email links, so a great big thank you for that one!
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.
Sid, I feel the 301 Redirect should be the easiest of all.
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
D95 is the best URL masking tool I have seen for Affiliate Marketing.
@Shy guy – Thats true.. we need to convince them first but these do play a small role (especially in blogging).
Thanks for the comment
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..