Comments on: How to Cloak Your Affiliate Links the Easy Way

By: Vineet Saxena

Vineet Saxena — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:25:41 +0000

Using PHP is a nice cloaking technique. Earlier I was plugin for my wordpress blog but now I will switch to PHP redirects.

By: Sumu

Sumu — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:50:00 +0000

Thank you Rosalind, thanks for sharing this nice helpful trick for cloaking links. As I was using html redirection, and there were almost 78 pages for each link. But now I’ve got the idea of using .php to make those in a single file. Please keep sharing this kind of info. Thank you.

By: Criket

Criket — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:11:47 +0000

I just ran across a couple wordpress plugins that do the same, wplinkcloaker and eclipse cloaker. Any one ever use them and are they worth the money?

By: Invesmo

Invesmo — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:44:39 +0000

Merci pour l’article, même c’est un peu pas pratique pour les gens qui travail sur des script spécifique. Par exemple pour WordPress il vaut mieux travailler sous une extension, même c’est j’aime pas trop travailler sous une extension (plugin).
En tous cas merci.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:19:03 +0000

I have seen most people not aware of these link cloaking techniques simple use the tiny.url method or just use a simple url shortener but if many hosting companies would make it easier for noobs to be in the know and learn hwo to do a simple redirect or ghost their links it would make it much harder for other click jackers to steal commish from all of us hard working IM’ers

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:29:58 +0000

Nice I tried all the free if you sign up affiliate programs and they all have the same problem, white screen and don’t work and while searching came to your site and nice way to do it. I’m going to give it a go.
One question that hits my mind and that is. can I use a another domain to put all the affiliate links form all my sites into one file and all the sites would use that domain to call the link instead of the html page the link is sitting on?

By: DiTesco

DiTesco — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:34:28 +0000

Hi. Sorry to be asking you this, but I am not a tech savvy guy and I followed your instructions to the letter. Somehow, I can’t make it work. Any thoughts?

By: Javi

Javi — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:26:12 +0000

Very awesome method! I’m new to WordPress, and I didn’t wanted to create a WP page named “go” and add sub-pages for every link — what a hassle!

By the way, the PHP coding wouldn’t work for me until I made some changes. For those of you having trouble, replace the single quotation marks with double quotations ( ‘ to ” ).

As so:

“http://affiliatelink1.com”,
“affiliatelink2″ => “http://affiliatelink1.com”,
“affiliatelink3″ => “http://affiliatelink1.com”,
);
if (array_key_exists($_GET["id"], $path))
header(“Location: ” .$path[$_GET["id"]]);
?>

I’m still new to PHP, so I don’t know why single quotation marks were a problem on my site, but things work perfectly now.

Thanks again, Rosalind.

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vps hosting reviews — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:49:26 +0000

Thanks for this – always wondered how to do it correctly.

By: Gerri

Gerri — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:37:36 +0000

I just tried to implement cloaking using the steps outlined above. It worked but, when I went back to the site 5 – 10 minutes later to see of everything was working the way it should, I encountered a 404 message. Any idea why this may have happened? Do you have a fix for it?
Thanks.