Comments on: How To Cloak Affiliate Links & Why You Should

By: dyintrovert2

dyintrovert2 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:51:22 +0000

If you have to you can always use something like http://tinyurl.com/. While it's not perfect it'll still hide the link. Also lets you softly place them in Twitter and Plurk.

By: andymurd

andymurd — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:19:35 +0000

Try this for your htaccess problems:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^link/([/_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)$ link.php?id=$1 [L]

# WordPress rewrite entries go underneath

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:13:57 +0000

you should be cloaking more than just your affiliate links..

By: tonya

tonya — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:36:07 +0000

Thanks for the info…Ill make sure to look into that more!

By: Egonitron

Egonitron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:17:07 +0000

Thanks for the reply Mark, I know why it’s used, I’d like to make the link look like that, but I can’t get it to work. If you can figure it out please let me know (email or IM, I might not check back here on the post.) You should add a subscribe to comments option :)

By: Jim Karter

Jim Karter — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:08:15 +0000

Hey, thats a good article. Many people use them for clickbank.

By: Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:26:56 +0000

Hey Egonitron, the rewrite rules are just for additional style points in making the link look better. I think there are some issues with WordPress, it is not working for myself either.

By: Egonitron

Egonitron — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:28:22 +0000

Great article, but the ‘/link/keyword’ doesn’t work. What was the point in the .htaccess mod if that doesn’t work?