In the previous article I showed you how to redirect affiliate links using simple HTML. Now lets look at the second option – creating “redirects” in your Cpanel administration area.
To do this, please make sure that you have a web hosting with cPanel installed. Then login to your cPanel account and click on “Redirects”. The process is quite similar to creating a www redirect but this time you’ll be using your affiliate links.
So make sure you have the correct affiliate link.
In this example I will be using this affiliate link: http://winniche.gobala.hop.clickbank.net which leads to my own product on ClickBank. I would enter something like this in the configuration section.
You can basically enter any file name you want. You can put a /go/ or /recommends/ followed by the product name. Then just enter the actual affiliate link, select “redirect with or without www” and click on “Add”. Your redirect link should now be functioning.
NOTE: This method will not work properly if you are using WordPress or other CMS that uses a .htaccess file to manage access permissions.
If you are using WordPress, then these are your options:
- Create a sub-domain, and use the sub-domain instead when creating cPanel redirects – so that would make your redirect links something like http:// track.gobalakrishnan.com/recommends/product
- Use the Ninja Affiliate plugin for WordPress, it does a much better job of managing and cloaking your affiliate links
- Create basic HTML redirects instead, or PHP redirects
- Get another domain name for the purpose of redirecting affiliate links
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