Is there an easy way to mask aff links?

[hairycornflakes]

just think masking an aff link would make my site look a lot nicer!

basically want hxxp://www.androzers.com/blaqadlakjd;laks2312301230

to look like

hxxp://www.betfair.com

when a user hovers over a banner or text link.

is this possible? if so, is it easy lol!

hc

[smingle]

Downloads - Auratech Affilate Link Cloaker 1.2.3 Freeware Software

Enjoy

[Affi Liate]

I'm sh*t at web code - but this does it for me and it's pi*s easy:

Takes seconds once you tried it and see it works.

Captain Geeko tried 'em all and this is the one he reccommends...

For this to work your hosting server will need to support php

[1] Create a folder called "OUT" in your www web folder

[2] For EACH affiliate link you need on the site create a folder within the OUT FOLDER

So you would create a folder called "betfair-whatever"

In this folder you need a php page called "index"

On the index page you will need the following code:

<?php
header("Location: http:// www. affiliatelink");
?>

Your actual link on the web page source will look something like this:

[a href=" ./out/betfair-whatever" title="whatever" target="_blank"] **

This method has other strong white hat advantages which I won't go into just now.

Affi Gates

** [ & ] = < & > Had to do this way to prevent the f***** thing creating a link in the post....

[Bud]

Or, there was pretty much a perfect solution posted by BenKowaBunga.

<a onMouseOver='window.status="http://www.johnlewis.com"; return true' onMouseOut='window.status="Done"; return true' href="http://tracker.tradeboubler.com/click?.............." target="_blank">TEXT GOES HERE</a>

Don't think it gets much simpler than that.

See thread: redirecting Affiliate URL Links

[accelerator]

AFFILIATE CITIZEN » Redirect Script for Affiliate Sites in PHP

Link Cloaking - The why, the where, the how - ShoeMoney®

[Grizzly]

I always use a page redirect using meta. it makes links look much better!

[accelerator]

See also:

Link Masking

Rgds

Accelerator

[sgpratley]

I always use a page redirect using meta. it makes links look much better!

You can also stick a tracking tag on one of those pages so you can count your clicks out as some sort of conversion. If you use the header location method there's nowhere to put a tag.

Not perfect, but easy.

[Travel Pixel]

If you use a PHP method (my solution kindly linked above) you can also integrate it with a database of some kind.

What does this do?

Well, you can track clicks, build a database of popular products, send emails to yourself when a link is clicked....lots of potential for geeky analytics.

[aotagain]

Originally Posted by Travel Pixel ...send emails to yourself when a link is clicked....lots of potential for geeky analytics.

That gives me an idea for using clicks to trigger the exterior flashing Christmas house lights next Christmas.

ahhh ... i need a break from migrating my database

[Travel Pixel]

That gives me an idea for using clicks to trigger the exterior flashing Christmas house lights next Christmas.

LOL, great idea. With the xmas bonanza in sales you can offset the cost of all those bulbs from the revenue. nice.

Id recommend a volley of Christmas carols at increments of 10 clicks aswell.

[Lawcom]

I've been trying to work with the technique outlined at affiliatecitizen.com but have a few issues..

1, my testing server is not the final url for the domain and the links, as it is being tested in a folder on a different site..

2, I am using frames and I am unsure if the target _mainFrame should be in the php file or in the link ?

Any chance of a heads up

at present I am receiving Parse error: syntax error probably due to one of those issues

[mejorantes]

Another method is using htaccess.....

For an onpage link of hxxp://www.yourdomain.com/go/betfair/ you would place the following code in your htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?go/betfair/ http://www.youraffiliatelink.com [L]