How do you mask affiliate links
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Basically, you want to create a handler in your server-side code. You will pass query strings to that handler through HTML links on your page. The handler will then parse the query strings and redirect to the affiliate link.
So on your landing page, your affiliate links are cloaked by linking to "pages" on your own site, but the server-side code handles it all so there really is no redirect "page", just the handler that redirects automatically based on the link's query string.
So on your landing page, your affiliate links are cloaked by linking to "pages" on your own site, but the server-side code handles it all so there really is no redirect "page", just the handler that redirects automatically based on the link's query string.
GoTryThis was recently released and handles all of this for you. It also provides some handy reporting for click tracking.
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GoTryTHIS DEADLY effective affiliate marketing secret
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Use any one of thousands of URL rewriters out there. I've got one, you should too. NGVT URL shrinker / masker thingy.
I think this is what you are looking for....
create a link on the page with your affiliate ad that links to another page within your domain. Lets call it example.com/redirect.html
Then create a page called redirect.html with the only thing on that page being this code.
<?php
header ('location: http:/www.THE_URL_YOU_Want_to_Redirect_to.com');
?>
I found this a few days ago from another posting on the site. Sorry I dont remember who to give credit to, but it was not me :anon.sml:.
create a link on the page with your affiliate ad that links to another page within your domain. Lets call it example.com/redirect.html
Then create a page called redirect.html with the only thing on that page being this code.
<?php
header ('location: http:/www.THE_URL_YOU_Want_to_Redirect_to.com');
?>
I found this a few days ago from another posting on the site. Sorry I dont remember who to give credit to, but it was not me :anon.sml:.
And before anyone wastes their time:
NO - THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH ADWORDS
Your ad will be disapproved by staff. Believe, I have tried
Wow, that's weird
I mean all my header redirects have been disapproved. And I actually came to a conclusion that their adsbot can tell if it's being redirected by header. Well it should, it's quite easy to detect.
Wow, that's weird
I mean all my header redirects have been disapproved. And I actually came to a conclusion that their adsbot can tell if it's being redirected by header. Well it should, it's quite easy to detect.
Are you using a redirect page as your adwords destination URL, or are linking to the redirect page from your landing page?
Also, does setting the Location: parameter like that in PHP automatically change the statuscode? You might want to check that your HTTP Status code is being set to 302 or 301 as well.
I was talking about redirect page as destination url so that when visitor clicks my ad, he'll be redirected immediately without even seeing my landing page.
Pretty much all affiliate networks do that anyway (you go to a network page that redirects to the merchant's site), so if google disallowed that, it would pretty much kill all direct-to-merchant affiliate sales. Use a server header checker to make sure your redirects are properly formed.
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