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Hiding Affiliate Links Redirecting Affiliate Marketing Links

Saturday, July 21st, 2007 | Affiliate Marketing with 4 Comments

There are several reasons in affiliate marketing to hide your affiliate links. The main reason is many people are less inclined to click on a big long ugly link. There are different ways to accomplish it and this guide will show several ways to accomplish it, assuming you have your own website to create the needed files.

The first example is a simple redirect page. To do this copy the below HTML code and paste it into Notepad or your favorite text editor. Change the information in the highlighted areas as follows: Change the title of the page to reflect the name of the destination page or site. Then change the two URL’s to the actual destination of where you wish the page to point.

Create a new web page on your site and name it whatever you want. An example would be money.html. In this case you would show www.mysite.com/money.html as the link but the destination would be the URL you placed inside the money.html page. Paste in the modified HTML code with the new title and destination URL’s, and save.

<html><head>

<title>Give The Page A Title Here</title>

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=http://www.Destination.com“><meta name=”keywords” content=”automatic redirection”></head><body>

If your browser doesn’t automatically go there within a few seconds, you may want to go to

<a href=” http://www.Destination.com“>Click Here</a> manually. </body>

</html>

Now test your new redirect and you will see a brief transition page and should land on the correct destination URL. The downside to this type of redirect is that the visitor will know, by the transition page, that they are getting redirected and also will see the actual destination URL in their browser’s address bar. If you don’t like the results of this redirect method then you may want to use a Frame page.

Creating a Frame page is very similar to the above method but it just has a little more HTML code in the page. The advantage to this method is the actual destination page will show immediately in the browser, with to transition, and the your URL will continue to show in the address bar. This is especially effective when promoting affiliate products like those from ClickBank.

To create a Frame page copy the below code and change the highlighted information with your own. Obviously with the URL being the most important part. Create a new web page on your site and call it whatever you want like in the above example. To test your affiliate link, click the buy button or whatever next action called for on the page and see if it takes you to the correct page.

</script>
<html><head>
<script language=”JavaScript”>
<!–

function SymError()
{
return true;
}

window.onerror = SymError;

var SymRealWinOpen = window.open;

function SymWinOpen(url, name, attributes)
{
return (new Object());
}

window.open = SymWinOpen;

//–>
</script>

<script>window.status = ‘ ‘;</script><meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en-us”>

<title>Destination Title</title>
<meta name=” Destination Name ” content>
<meta name=” Destination Name ” content>

</head><frameset border=”0″ frameborder=”0″ marginleft=”0″ margintop=”0″ marginright=”0″ marginbottom=”0″ rows=”100%,*”>

<frame src=”http://www.destinationURL” scrolling=”auto”

frameborder=”no” border=”0″ noresize><frame topmargin=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ scrolling=”no” marginheight=”0″ frameborder=”no” border=”0″ noresize><noframes><body></body></noframes></frameset></html>
<script language=”JavaScript”><!–
var SymRealOnLoad;
var SymRealOnUnload;

function SymOnUnload()
{
window.open = SymWinOpen;
if(SymRealOnUnload != null)
SymRealOnUnload();
}

function SymOnLoad()
{
if(SymRealOnLoad != null)
SymRealOnLoad();
window.open = SymRealWinOpen;
SymRealOnUnload = window.onunload;
window.onunload = SymOnUnload;
}

SymRealOnLoad = window.onload;
window.onload = SymOnLoad;

//–>
</script>

One more refinement can be made in either case discussed above and that is to place your redirect page into its own directory. Done correctly it will reduce the URL from www.mysite.com/money.html to www.mysite.com/money, knocking off the trailing html.

To do that create a new directory, or folder, on your site, in this example money, then when creating your new redirect page within the directory call it index.html. This will be the main page within the new directory or folder. It is very important that you don’t create a new index.html within your main website.

Now you can advertise all your affiliate links using links from your own website.

Comments

2
Markneter // September 2nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm

Hi there,

I made a cloaked link plugin that can be used to redirect links. It adds a new menu to blogroll menu, you set a cloak name for the link like “amazon”, and then use the link as http://www.yourblog.com/url/amazon or http://www.yourblog.com/?url=amazon . When someone follows this link he/she is redirected to the actual affiliate page (http://www.amazon.com/youraffiliatepage) stealthly with a header permanently moved. You can also follow how many clicks each link got

It is still in testing phase, I use it for my own usage. (Working sample http://games.forbored.com/url/mygamespace)

I’ll release it in the near future, after starting a related blog for it. If any of you want to take a beta test, I can provide the plugin by e-mail.

A big question for me is? Are there any similiar plugins? If yes, it doesn’t make sense to release this one.

Cheers,
3
Gamy // September 17th, 2007 at 9:24 am

Hello Houdy,

thanks. Is this code suitable to use it for Word press blog?
as it is using php codes. If I wish to do that for my WP blog
can I use these codes?

gamy
4
Jeff Houdyschell // September 17th, 2007 at 9:39 am

Yes Gamy you can use these on any type of website, even if it is running on WordPress.

Jeff,
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