Affiliate marketing can be one of the simplest forms of making money online – just get traffic to your links and when a sale is made, you make money.
But if you want to get serious about it, there are other things you may want to do. For example, all serious affiliates mask or cloak their affiliate links. This not only allows them to appear more professional, but also prevents “commission hijacking”.
The easiest way to mask affiliate links is by using HTML “refresh” in the meta section of your HTML document.
So for example, let’s say I want to promote WordPress Adsense System by Gobala Krishnan. Here is my naked ClickBank affiliate link:
>> http://winniche.gobala.hop.clickbank.net <<
Let’s say I want to change it, so when I give out a link it will look something like this:
>> http://www.gobalakrishnan.com/recommends/wordpressadsense.html <<
What I needs to do is create a folder in my web server and name it “recommends”. Within this folder you save all your HTML files, each file represents one product that you are promoting. In this case, I will create a new HTML file and save it as “wordpressadsense.html”
Now, using DreamWeaver I can just click on the Insert > HTML > Head Tags > Refresh and I’ll see a window like this:
Select “0” seconds to make the page redirect immediately, and enter the actual affiliate link as the “Go to URL”. Your HTML codes will look something like this:
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Refresh” content=”0;URL=http://winniche.gobala.hop.clickbank.net” />
</head>
Now you can link directly to that page when promoting, for example www.yoursite.com/recommends/wordpressadsense.html and it will automatically redirect to your affiliate link. Simple, but it works.
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Hi, thanks for tutorial, but Iam looking for way to redirect without the middle folder. I would like it to look like mywebsite.com/product. Do you know how to do it?
I really like this tutorial
thank you gobala….
selamet pagi, can anyboby tell me how to go about inserting an affiliate link onto a squidoo lens – i am the greenest of green horns learning the ropes! Thank you.
@ benny – In Squidoo you don’t own the platform so I guess you just have to use the naked affiliate link. If you want to cloak it you need your own domain name to redirect the affiliate links.
thanks for the info.it’s really help me in cloaking my affiliate id and avoid my commission from stolen by the unresponsible person.
Thank u for your info…i searched everywhere but, there is no solution for blogger.com users.So i think i need to go with own domain…thanks for your kind info.
regards
ramesh.
@ ramesh – Yes, eventually you will need to get your own domain name and hosting. Try our blog hosting package.
Could you please tell me how to go with this method or may be different method for blogger.com!
Can any guru give us info for blogger users.
Let me see how many gurus are there in the internet?
@ ramesh – With Blogger its a bit more difficult to do, since you don’t own anything and are basically helping Google get more traffic
– you probably need to try a hosted software if you have no domain name of your own at all..
Cool. As a Dreamweaver user, I found this tip very useful if you’re intend to go for affiliate marketing. Create as many blank document that redirect to your affiliate website. And show the link to this blank page on your main website. You don’t need a PERL, PHP or any link cloaker software now…Just use Dreamweaver.
Yep, I use only Dreamweaver. Forget about FrontPage as its total crap
Kampung boy, use ninja affiliate plug-in instead.
I already have one plugin which is name WordPress link cloacker that I’m try to use and apply to my blog, but It doesn’t change that I’m target.