How to Mask Your Affiliate Links
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There are many ways to mask your own affiliate links, to successfully improve and boost your click-through rating and earnings through affiliate networks.
Redirect through .PHP File
You can use a simple redirection file with your own link inside to automatically redirect and mask your own affiliate links. After applying this trick, your redirection file would look like http://www.yoursite.com/go/link
This is one of the easiest ways to redirect your affiliate links. I have to note that this trick can be applied on almost any website or self-hosted service. Below, I will show you how to do this in a few simple steps.
- Create a redirection folder – You should create a redirection folder where you are going to place your redirection files. This folder is usually placed in your root-directory. Note that you can create any name you want. I would go with creation of yoursite.com/go/ folder.
- Redirection file – Now, you should create your own redirection file. Open your html editor (notepad would work fine), and add the following lines in it.
<? header(”Location: YOUR-AFFILIATE-LINK“); ?>
You should change the YOUR-AFFILIATE-LINK with your own full affiliate link, starting with http://
- Save and Upload the file – All you need to do now is to save and upload this .php file on your website folder, created on previous step. You should place a name for this file, related to your affiliate name. From now, you can link anywhere you want to your affiliate link. It will be nicely masked and user-friendly.
You should know that you are not required to place these files on the folder. To remove the /go/ part in your links, all you need to do is to upload them directly into your root-directory.
Redirect through 301 Redirection
Another very effective and one of the simplest ways to setup an masked affiliate links is to do it through the 301 redirection from your htaccess file on your site root folder.
You should note that’s not recommended for the amateurs. Some valuable settings may be included in your htaccess file, so you need to be a very careful changing it.
Anyway, all you need to do is to add following code in your htaccess file:
Redirect 301 /name http://your-affiliate-link
And it’s done. Now your link yoursite.com/name would link to your affiliate link.
Redirect through URL Redirection Services
Today, here are a many quality and useful URL redirection services on the internet. Thanks to the Twitter, the URL Redirection services becomes so popular and well-known places on the internet.
Of course, you can use these services to automatically mask your affiliate links to shorten ones:
- TinyURL – One of the oldest URL redirection services on the internet.
- Doiop – A very simple URL redirection service which allows you to choose a name for your links.
- Bit.ly – A simple URL shortener with opportunity to track your link clicks.
- is.gd – Another very popular URL redirection service on the internet.
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I would probably recommend adding a “nofollow” tag to affiliate links unless you want the search engines to see your link to the affiliate product as a “I vouch for this affiliate site!” – if the affiliate site go bad, you might get punished for linking to them.
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