How To Mask Your Affiliate Links
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Rishabh Sood under SEO Tricks/TipsHello guys,
Its been a while now.. I was a bit busy with my exams and now as they’re over I have plenty of time to update the blog 
So today, I am gonna tell you about Making your affiliate links.
There are lots of people around who think if they buy something using an affiliate link, they’re going to loose money or get scammed or somthing. But this isnt really true, If you sign up with an affiliate link you arent going to loose anything but you’ll be giving some benifit to the person whole affiliate link you are from.
Still, if people are afraid of clicking your affiliate links you can always mask them and it’d help you to earn more money.
How To Mask Your Affiliate Links
TinyUrl.com – TinyUrl.com is a site which helps you make your URL short. You can use their custom alias system to build a good url.
PHP-Redirection – This one of the commonly used method and I love it, use it and recommed it 
You just need to create a new .php file for every affiliate link of your.
For eg: If your affiliate link is about a Compaq Laptop, you should name the file as compaq-laptop.php
<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.youraffiliatesite.com/?user-id=14w5423 ) ;
?>
Put this code in the .php file and don’t forget to replace your URL 
This is all I have about How To Mask Your Affiliate Links. If I have more info on it, I’ll update you guys
Thanks,
Rishabh Sood
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March 10th, 2009 at 10:58 am
can you send me now the $20??
heartnet02[at]yahoo.com thanks..pls reply
March 11th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Rishab: A good tip there.
You don’t need to make a file everytime. Just put a redirect in .htaccess
I prefer to put a redirect on a folder using .htaccess and one single file is used to redirect all queries for that folder/filename to respective affiliate sites.
March 11th, 2009 at 7:35 am
@Jeet : I also follow the same way to hide my affiliate links!
March 11th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Well Jeet rishabh’s way is a lot more easy …and quick too !!!1
March 11th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Was just about to say what Jeet said.
Another great way is to create a new directory, create an index page and use a HTML redirection (I dont know one off the top of my head)to redirect to your referral link.
So if you called your directory buy, you could use this link:
http://www.domain.com/buy, which when somebody clicked on it would redirect them to the affiliate/referral link!
I would definitely use a .htaccess redirection, because its much faster
March 11th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
off topic: your blog was offline for the last few days rishabh? Did you know this or…?
March 11th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Yeah, Milo I am aware of it.. I had some issues with my dedicated server
March 13th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Thank you for article
March 14th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Thanks for the information!!
March 20th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Rishabhsood.. are you going to give the price I won or not??jus tell me so I won’t hope for it that you will give it..
March 20th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
As a shop this is planning on launching an affiliate campaign I may point my affiliates to do this to encourage click-through.
Cheers
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
interesting never knew that . thanks
March 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
great tip, must try this php code for my aff links
April 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 10:17 am
You can also use http://www.notlong.com right? I believe that uses a redirect similar to TinyURL.
I think there are some wordpress plugins that automatically masks links too.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Very nice information.
I have one doubt. what can i use the affiliate marketing.
Advance thanks,
Glenn
May 6th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
this is quite complicated to understand
probably i will have to read again
May 8th, 2009 at 1:19 am
seems like the affiliate links would work
cant say unless i put them in to trial
thanks anyways
July 4th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Another great source would be Viral Url and Bit.ly
July 11th, 2009 at 9:39 am
thanks for join the great SEO markrting
July 13th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Thanks for your good information and also i like to know about this more details so if you know something related Affiliate Links continue this type of posting. Thanks once again.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:50 am
I feel really good to join this conversation because this whole content contains great amount of information about SEO.
July 21st, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Hi, I’m Hardi
It’s first time for me landing on your blog. I’ve reading your post recently and I’m so enjoying it.
Thank you very much
= Hardi =
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July 27th, 2009 at 6:46 am
I will have to read again, but tnx for the post
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Great article thanks.