Cj link cloaking issue

[TrollDad]

the link we get from cj like:

<a href="http://www.blackhatworld.com">BHW</a><img src="http://www.blackhatworld.com/img.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"/>

so if we cloak the link we just redirect our link:

http://www.affiliatesite.com/go/bhw

to

http://www.blackhatworld.com

it that right?

and if we cloak our link, how can we track impression without the tracking image?

 

[bradsteves]

Cloaking is usually used to refer to masking the affiliate link itself (the request that actually drops the affiliate network cookie and that gets your page).

Let's assume you have a merchant:

[URL]http://www.merchant.com[/URL]

And the affiliate link you are given to send visitors to that merchants is:

[URL]http://affnetwork.com/?aff_id=1232&site_id=abcde[/URL]

When you 'cloak', you present users with a link like this:

[URL="http://affnetwork.com/?aff_id=1232&site_id=abcde"]http://mysite.com/g[/URL]o/merchant

When a user clicks that link, you take them them to the affnetwork.com link which loads the tracking cookie and then redirects users on to the merchant's website. On the merchant's website, they will have tracking that allows the affiliate network to determine that you sent the visitor.

Does this help clarify?

 

[edgemed]

That helps me understand better brad, but what is the code to do that and where do you put it?

Is it in your re-direct script?

What is the best script to use?

Thanks for your help

 

[AlreadyBanned]

That helps me understand better brad, but what is the code to do that and where do you put it?

Is it in your re-direct script?

What is the best script to use?

Thanks for your help

Use prosper202 to track stuff when cloaking your affiliate links!

 

[LeadInMarketing]

That helps me understand better brad, but what is the code to do that and where do you put it?

Is it in your re-direct script?

What is the best script to use?

Thanks for your help

Hey. If you're on WordPress, there is a plugin called PrettyLinks. Is pretty popular. I am not sure if they have a regular (non-wordpress) version

 

[maxkennedy]

That helps me understand better brad, but what is the code to do that and where do you put it?

Is it in your re-direct script?

What is the best script to use?

Thanks for your help

If you have limited or no budget, you'll use the Pretty Link plugin.

If you have 77$ that you can afford to spend, you'll buy Easy Redirect Script. I did
and it's very respectable.

 

[markedup]

Does CJ care to track how you send traffic to your redirect link?


If I post onto a web 2.0 site the redirect link such as

domainDOTCOM/offer

and someone clicks it, will CJ see that the traffic came from the web 2.0 site or from the

domainDOTCOM/offer

domain?

thanks