Need a little help with cloaking

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PHustler

Junior Member

Feb 17, 2010

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• Mar 29, 2010

• #1

First I want to say hi as this is my first post, HI.

Second I am looking for a way to cloak links on one of my sites. I am not doing anything blackhat on the site. I just want the links to look normal and not a mile long with affiliate ids and such.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

PH

 

russaus

Junior Member

Mar 5, 2010

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• Apr 1, 2010

• #2

url shortening service?

hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening

Or pass it to a script, like domain.tld/?id=X then grab X from the query string and look through an array and redirect to the array item where index = X etc etc etc

 

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luckymoney

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Mar 29, 2010

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• Apr 3, 2010

• #3

use tinyurl

 

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moe931

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Jul 8, 2008

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• Apr 11, 2010

• #4

You should try to http://www.hiderefer.com/cloak_website_url_generator.html with HideRefer.com

 

goawayplease

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Apr 10, 2008

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• Apr 11, 2010

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URL Shortening is a great way to mask the links so long as you're not worried about the referer.

You can look at stuff like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/short-url-plugin/ if you're running WordPress

 

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schmedes2

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Jun 9, 2009

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• Apr 13, 2010

• #6

just make a .php redirect. Make a folder called "product name" on your site and make a word file called index.php put in it:

PHP:

<?php header('Location: affiliatelink.com'); exit(); ?>

and upload it to your folder. That's it

 

blackhit

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Jan 28, 2008

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• Apr 13, 2010

• #7

To add to schmedes2 option...

Your cloaked link will be this:

http://yourdomain.com/productname/index.php

This is commonly used in the format:

http://yourdomain.com/recommends/greatflatscreentv.php

folder=recommends
php with the redirect=greatflatscreentv.php

 

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dearac

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Nov 15, 2008

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• Apr 13, 2010

• #8

if you're using wordpress just get the plugin pretty link. very easy to use.

 

macpaulos

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Oct 14, 2009

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• May 2, 2010

• #9

And if your using Joomla with SEF???