After blogging about php redirect video tutorial by Jeremy Palmer, I have came across Keith’s post where he shows two other methods of cloaking the affiliate links by html as well as .htacess redirects. The great thing about Keith’s post, is that he shows how to create php and .htaccess redirects using array of links. By the way I found Keith’s post, through BumpZee!– my favorite affiliate community.
Why should you care about link redirects? Here are just few reasons:
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To cloak (hide) the affiliate links. Evidently people are reluctant to click affiliate links.
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To prevent from your links being hijacked. I personally do not believe this ever happens but hey the pros say so.
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The clocked links look more elegant– without all the funny characters in them.
I also left a question for Keith to find out whether or not it is good a idea to implement link cloaking for datafeed driven websites. So if you can been him on this one I would appreciate your help. My major concern is if you have 100+ redirects in your .htaccess file, how would that affect your site if at all.
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