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I got quite a few emails around the How To Effectively Cloak Affiliate Links post I recently made citing some other sources and techniques to cloak affiliate links. A couple of them were so good I decided to write a quick follow up to let you all know too.

Firstly a guy over at http://studge.com/hiding-links-with-php-and-counting-clicks-with-mysql/ has made a superb and very easy to follow guide on cloaking links using php while being able to count the clicks for each link using a mysql DB. Very clever little script you can include on any site in about 5 mins.

The other source was http://teamtutorials.com/web-development-tutorials/how-to-redirect-affiliate-links which gives another great php based affiliate link cloaking solution.

A few people also pointed out how straightforward it is to just use the htaccess file to perform the actual redirects. Instead of using any specific programs or scripts you can in fact just type the following

Redirect /cloaklinks http://xxxxxxx.cloaklinks.hop.clickbank.net/

Into your htaccess file and you can the direct people to

www.coffeeblack.co.uk/cloaklinks

Instead of the long affiliate link.

Which brings me to the final recommendation which is the Affiliate Link Cloaker software. I normally dont recommend paid software but around 8-10 people have suggested this software to me now so i started to take notice. When you have multiple sites all promoting different programs this now seems to be the best tool going. I have linked straight to it using www.coffeeblack.co.uk/cloaklinks so you can see how a htaccess redirect works and visit it in one go Good luck increasing your affiliate commissions.

I just got an email about 30 mins ago and have been reading it since.

The email was from andy jenkins and brad fallon. you have probably been on the receiving end of some well fashioned emails from them at some point in the past. one of the things that brad and andy do better than anyone else is create a need for an item.

You will never get a one time offer from them. You will get a one time offer that you heard about weeks ago and now it has arrived it has blown everything else out of the water and is going fast but there is still a couple of spaces left if your quick enough.

What this email said, and the reason I have chosen to post about it, is that they have some proof that you can kick pages out of google using proxies. I have read through and i understand the basics that you use a proxy to give google another “Home page” in effect removing the usual index.htm

I suggest everyone reads it just in case this is real.

Either that or its some decent scare mongering and for some reason they want poeple on their mailing list to stop using proxies

But then again I can be paranoid sometimes.

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