How To Mask Your Affiliate Links To Make Money

[thenetfool]

Hey Bloggeries members,

I have been using affiliate links in my post for a few months now, and have really gone through all of the motions
in figuring out the best way to hide your referral number. In the end, I finally came across the best way (my opinion) to do this, and it is completely free

I first noticed this on some of the bigger blogs and just couldn't figure out how to do this myself (they don't usually tell )
Anyway, after trying and testing, I found the great method and decided to post about it today.

I think that masking your links can dramatically increase the amount of people that sign up under you.
I have this proven in my post, that I think you guys can stand to benefit by reading.

I want to keep the self-plugs to a minimum... but I feel like a lot of you can benefit from masking referral links and may not no how to do it.

Read On!
Stop Losing Money! | How To Mask Your Affiliate Links | The Net Fool

[sukosaki]

Nice post. I LOVE the .php redirect! I think this is very helpful to those that aren't aware of it, until now.

[thenetfool]

Yeah, I was suckered into buying WP Affiliate Pro for $100. Its so much better to just do it yourself for free... and its easy!

[The University Kid]

I don't really see the point of WP Aff Pro, lol. As you said, the URL it churns out is just as ugly...

[jshaffstall]

FWIW, if you use a PHP header redirect, you don't get the (to me) annoying "you are being redirected page", it just takes you straight to where you want them to go.

Here's a post of mine that describes that approach: * DIY Link Cloaking, With Pretty URLs*by*Online Opportunity

Both are better than ugly URLs, I just happen to hate delayed redirects with a passion (I think it's the impatient side of me).

Jay

[rhyswynne]

Php redirects are better (2nd only to .htaccess for redirects that are failsafe), but the meta refresh has it's advantages (for one, you can set up a google analytic goal as well on the page, so you can track clicks). Top post!

[thenetfool]

Well actually, with this method you usually don't see the "You are now being redirected" page, it is usually automatic!
This is really just a safeguard in case the other faster method doesn't work.

Thanks for the positive feedback, I thought this post might be a little helpful

[Strongbow]

Very helpful thanks wasnt sure how much of an impact masking affiliate links had but i will be putting this into practice.

[netentre]

Hey,

Great article NetFool.

On the same subject, I have written an article with additional ways to mask affiliate links, which include a cool WordPress plugin that does this in a second, without any coding:

How-To: Hiding Your Affiliate Links

Tell me what you think!

[Giamatti]

Very helpfull post, i didnt know that redirecting links could be so helpfull.

Thanks.