Masking / Cloaking Affiliate Links

[DLINKLA]

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I have so far spent yesterday evening, All of today and this evenig trying to figure out how to Cloak / Hide affilaite links and Iframe .

I have read all posts on here, I have googled it and you tubed it everything I just cant get it to work .

Basically I have found this info and code on how to mask a link, however I cant get it to work, Please can someone help me



href=”http://redirect/redirectcode” onmouseover=”this.href=’http://www.domain.com/’;” onclick=”this.href=’http://redirect/redirectcode’;” rel=”nofollow”

Right clicking on the link or mousehover shows “domain.com”, so webmasters who right click to look for the real url will be fooled into thinking they’re going straight to domain.com.

Clicking on the url replaces domain.com with refcode.

If javascript is disabled, then clicking on the link will just take you to the redirect url; that way you don’t lose clicks.

The only way visitors will realize they’re clicking on an affiliate link is to view source. Otherwise they’ll never know.


My code looks like this, How would I incorporate this code so via the method above so that it hides this link. I am unable to do any PHP as my site is in html. Please can anyone help by putting where my code into the coding in red

<a target="_BLANK" href="http://www2.smart-quotes.com/click.asp?lnk=1087&ctc=209&src=23&cmpg=&web=&brn=1 974&s=N&sn=Virgin MPU 1"><img src="http://www.creatives.smart-quotes.com/images/VirginCards/virgin-cc-1_300x250.gif" width="300" height="250" border="0" title="Apply for Virgin Money" alt="Apply for Virgin Money"></a>





Thank you

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[accelerator]

Try this, Affiliate Citizen script is good:

Link Masking

Rgds

[DLINKLA]

Yeah, I have red this. I cant seem to hide the code correctly. I have also read about a php file. Howeve I cant upload this to my site as its not my server

[Keith]

this recent thread may help Best way to hide affiliate links?

[losdev]

I just use a simple PHP jump script.

To be honest, I have sampled both methods (cloaking & non-cloaking) and I do not see a massive difference.

To be fair, your visitor ain't stupid.

In conclusion, do not buy any script, waste of dosh IMHO, just use a simple jump script pointing to your own folder where all the meat lives.

HTH

[Seamaster]

Whats this about hiding iframes? Is this necessary? Does google not like them?

[kcheung]

for normal HTML, you can try tinyurl or something similar which will give you a cloaked URL.

for wordpress there are various plugins that will do this for you.

but for iframes, sorry can't help.

ken

[DLINKLA]

for normal HTML, you can try tinyurl or something similar which will give you a cloaked URL.

for wordpress there are various plugins that will do this for you.

but for iframes, sorry can't help.

ken

I dont have wordpress, I use CMS .

I wanted the link to be either blank with nothing there like flash banners do or I would like the link to look like www. mysitename/Nike

I am unable to upload anything to my site I can only change things via the CMS

I just cant get it to work

[losdev]

Whats this about hiding iframes? Is this necessary? Does google not like them?

Google isney a fan of these alright...massive no no

Once again, why are you worrying, if you are paying someone to do this GET EM TO SORT IT.

JMTC

[losdev]

I am unable to upload anything to my site I can only change things via the CMS

I just cant get it to work

Why It is your site isn't it?

You do have access to the html files and webspace don't you?

[rm94531]

Does link masking hide the affiliate links within the web page source code also ?

[DLINKLA]

Tiny url does not work as all my links are in html

[DLINKLA]

Why It is your site isn't it?

You do have access to the html files and webspace don't you?

I own the site 100% however , The things I can change via cms is some wording , and the affilliate banners.

I'm not technical enouth to know if I have access ti html files, webspace etc.etc

[DLINKLA]

Google isney a fan of these alright...massive no no

Once again, why are you worrying, if you are paying someone to do this GET EM TO SORT IT.

JMTC

Its taken them 5 months to build the site, trying to get them to sort this is taking ages. It is easier if I find out how to do it myself

[Chimpo]

I dont have wordpress, I use CMS .

Afaik wordpress is a CMS. Or is there a CMS called 'CMS'?

Your code: try using window.status as whilst you can change this.href you would need to define this first.

<a href="http://www2.smart-quotes.com/click.asp?lnk=1087&ctc=209&src=23&cmpg=&web=&brn=1 974&s=N&sn=Virgin MPU 1" onMouseOver="window.status=' insert your text here '; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; " target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creatives.smart-quotes.com/images/VirginCards/virgin-cc-1_300x250.gif" width="300" height="250" border="0" title="Apply for Virgin Money" alt="Apply for Virgin Money"></a>

How many people right click to look at the properties of a link by right clicking on it? It doesn't seem to appear from the initial menu in firefox or IE.

You may fool users but you won't fool search engines. Google will just read the true href link and your SERP's will probably have more weight on users visiting your site than hiding links.

As for hiding iframes? Why? iframes are pretty bad practise now. You might be able to hide this from google by having this encoded in javascript so nothing obvious is visible in the source but this might start alarm bells ringing for search engines.

Additionally as more security plugins and features are used by browsers (e.g. noscript, legit anti spyware apackages and anti virus plugins) the user is often alerted to the presence of iframes.