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

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.

By: Richard Spacey

Richard Spacey — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:59:11 +0000

If you setup your affiliate your links in this manner, .php, do you still get the visibility and tracking in google analytics that you get with .html?

By: Elliot Martin

Elliot Martin — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:38:55 +0000

I’m new to all this and have been using Pretty Links in WP. Reading your article and the following conversation has made me understand why I have been getting the message “ALERT! Your Cloaks and Pretty Bars aren’t working fully anymore.”
I liked the tracking feature of Pretty Links, but I guess I’m looking for a new method, so might try yours. Thanks

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:54:30 +0000

Hi Rosalind,
This link cloaking via redirect to a php page sounds easy to do for single html links and I would like to thank you for sharing this tip. But how is it possible to redirect affiliate links, that are DHTML, like e.g. a product widget, which includes products from a data feed of the merchant? The script for such widgets are pure php or java script only and all links to images and call to action buttons are generated dynamically. Avantlink.com for instance provides such a widget tool.

By: jason

jason — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:55:36 +0000

I used to use tinyurl or bitly, but now i’m using this free soft called Cloaker Buzz. It will change your affiliate link into anything you like, so its more flexible. Anyone want to try you can download it here : http://www.imbuzzfreesoftware.com