Comments on: Re-directing Affiliate Links

By: Dm

Dm — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:42:41 +0000

Why is all the tech stuff always for people who already know what to do?
I don’t understand a word of how to start this – as a newbie, and I am not the only one, I’m sure, there must be a step-by-step way of explaining all this?

I’m sorry I logged on here now :(

By: Blogging The Movie

Blogging The Movie — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:37:46 +0000

great post.. hey.. susan.. i know you live in SD.. are you down for a video log?? I live in OC.. shouldn’t be too bad..

By: Life is Colourful

Life is Colourful — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:24:03 +0000

Good development buddy, I would give it a try.

By: Patches and Hacks

Patches and Hacks — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:23:38 +0000

If you want to manage all those hidden affiliate links from a nice web interface inside wordpress admin you can use my new ( and free ) plugin.
you can find out more about it here: http://patchlog.com/wordpress/hidden-affiliate-links/

The “Additional Cloacking” will not work on all browsers because some have the security settings in such a way that they don’t permit scripts to change the text in the status bar. I think IE 7 has such settings by enabled by default

By: Posts Of Interest September 10th | Shaun Low

Posts Of Interest September 10th | Shaun Low — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:52:29 +0000

[...] Suarez tells us how to “cloak” our affiliate links. This is basically another term for hiding our links. This helps increase affiliate sales and [...]

By: My first million dollars » Blog Archive » Info Ping 08.09.2007

My first million dollars » Blog Archive » Info Ping 08.09.2007 — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:35:57 +0000

[...] Re-directing Affiliate Links – “Re-directing an affiliate link or ‘cloaking’ a link is an easy task and can be a great advantage to your site for good reason. As I have done on this site, many other sites link to domain/name-of-product/ and redirect either using a PHP jump script (as do I) or manipulate the htaccess file. What are the advantage of redirecting an Outbound Affiliate Link?“ [...]

By: Life is Colourful

Life is Colourful — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:33:33 +0000

How about html redirect Susan, you forgot to mention about it I think. It’s nothing but similar as PHP redirect but this is with some html code which helps to show “You are redirected to the site in 5 seconds or click here” incase page does not show up quickly due to any technical issue

By: shaun

shaun — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:26:55 +0000

this is a great technique I’ve seen many bloggers do pleanty of times. thanks for the hint!!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:32:53 +0000

Paul – No problem!

David – Well, this has happened to me before and I can’t remember exactly what happened, but there was an issue with landing on the site. Always make a backup copy of anything you change so that if it doesn’t turn out the way you wanted, replace the file with the old copy. As far as stealing commissions, it’s more from people who decide to use their own affiliate/referral id’s to replace yours with theirs, essentially changing where the commission goes to (product sales…..)

Gregg – Cool :D

By: Gregg Hawkins

Gregg Hawkins — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:28:10 +0000

Thanks for posting this Susan…I’ll be working on redirecting my affiliate links these next few days :D Appreciate it!