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    Can anyone recommend a plugin for masking/cloaking affiliate links in Wordpress. I've seen a number of different options but was hoping someone here could recommend a reliable one.

    I've also noticed some people have links setup like xxx.com/go/casinox

    Is that done using a plugin or another way?

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    Quote Originally Posted by leporello View Post
    Can anyone recommend a plugin for masking/cloaking affiliate links in Wordpress. I've seen a number of different options but was hoping someone here could recommend a reliable one.

    I've also noticed some people have links setup like xxx.com/go/casinox

    Is that done using a plugin or another way?

    Thx
    I do mine as follows:

    1. Link to poker site xyz - http://mysite.com/go/xyz-poker.php

    2. Set up coded page in the go folder for xyz-poker.php

    First piece of code on my xyz-poker page is the following:

    <?php
    header( 'Location: http://www.xyz.com/myaffiliatecodehere' ) ;
    ?>

    While I love WP as a CMS, I don't always trust the plug-ins and widgets 100%. When it comes to serving traffic to the poker rooms, I'd prefer this method over any plug-in.

    Hope that helps,

    Mike
    Last edited by OPC; 08-02-2009 at 02:14 PM. Reason: added commentary on wp plugins

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    I use a variation of the folder structure that OPC described above. It is a bit more complicated, but I think it is worth it, since you can include code on the redirection page, which is handy if you want to track the people who are clicking through to the poker sites.

    Trackingwise you can set it up "thank you" page on a webshop, which is usually very easy to do.

    I have copy pasted the code I use below - It won't work properly unless you have a tracking.php document.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>[Insert page title]</title>
    <meta name="robots" content="noarchive, noindex, nofollow" />
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=[Insert target URL here]" />
    </head>

    <body>
    <?php
    require ('../tracking.php');
    ?>
    </body>

    </html>
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    Out of interest is there any difference between these methods and using this plugin?

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    I use the wordpress plugin "Redirection". It is commonly used to 301 redirect when you move a post/page or otherwise disrupt the original URL.

    But you can also hard code in 301's (or 302's, etc). I setup a hard coded redirect for domain.com/pokerroom/go and then map it to my affiliate link.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leporello View Post
    Out of interest is there any difference between these methods and using this plugin?

    Videotip: Cloaking affiliate links with WordPress Redirection plugin. | Eneset Technology
    There's not a difference. I just don't trust a plug-in to send traffic properly 100% of the time. While I trust wordpress as a whole, I've seen how xml sitemaps plug-in is not totally reliable all the time, nor is all-in-one seo or redirection or any other plug-in i've used. I think doing the mask page by hand makes me feel better - so I guess outside of piece of mind, there's little difference, if any.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unknown Webmaster View Post
    I have copy pasted the code I use below - It won't work properly unless you have a tracking.php document.
    Maybe i will ask a stupid question here, but i would like to follow your instructions - what would be the tracking.php document like?

    (i dont have my website on wordpress, but i want to redirect my affiliate links somehowe).

    any help would be appreciated!

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    I have the code for Google Analytics and whatever else I'm using at that site in tracking.php. It basically makes the affiliate links show up as pages, which sometimes makes things easier for me.

    If you don't want to use it you can just remove this:

    <?php
    require ('../tracking.php');
    ?>

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    Just PM me if things doesn't work out and I'll send you a copy of my files.
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    I setup a hard coded redirect to Made Easy Forex,maybe it will work...


 

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