Comments on: How to Hide Affiliate Links

By: andreas

andreas — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:26:49 +0000

this is quite useful since that many affiliates removes the visible user link when the visitor has gone to their site. Thanks for post!

By: Stoll

Stoll — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:03:42 +0000

Nice post!

However, I just want to add that if you’re going to use urlshortening to hide the link – make sure it’s a owndeveloped shortentool or atleast an own database. ‘Cause if they truncate old posts in the database you’re left alone and have to do it all over again!

By: Help on Tap (Chris)

Help on Tap (Chris) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:29:14 +0000

Thanks for the info Stefan.

I’m just starting out in Affiliate Marketing and was searching for a tool to hide my affiliate links. Other posts I have come across, so far, just confused me but you explained it simply.

Going to download the GoCodes plugin NOW!

By: sam

sam — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:00:27 +0000

THANXS for the plugin info. that is what i was looking

By: S.Pradeep Kumar

S.Pradeep Kumar — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:18:23 +0000

Nice sharing Stefan !

I think we can also make use of Google Short Links !

By: Toan Nguyen Minh

Toan Nguyen Minh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:34:56 +0000

@TechZoomIn: and don’t forget Ninja Affiliate plugin

By: TechZoomIn

TechZoomIn — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:26:55 +0000

URL Shortening is one method and preferable one will be using a plugin like Gocodes or OIO publisher.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:23:47 +0000

Another great method with a plugin like GoCodes is that you can track the number of downloads. For an example I added my first eBook “69 inspirational quotes” into a unique URL a few days ago simply because I was curious to see if anyone downloaded it.

By: Jacob Yap

Jacob Yap — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:42:18 +0000

Nice one, Stefan. I’m using GoCodes plugin too, it’s easy to setup and I’m happy that it also comes with a tracking statistic.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:55:23 +0000

As we established last time, genius think alike.

I think that’s the main problem about affiliate links. It looks strange and people may thing it’s unsafe.

By: Blogspot to Wordpress

Blogspot to Wordpress — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:09:29 +0000

Dam’n Stefan we are so much into the same Pitch here… Just few days back I was compiling a post on why you should hide affiliate link using gocodes and you have already written about it here…

preferably I will never like hiding my affiliate links, but I don’t know why Advertisers keep aff. link so ugly….

By: Jon Gotlin

Jon Gotlin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:33:05 +0000

Rather thinking of using jQuery to replace the href to my own tracking url. [a href="http://ducedo.com" class="file.php?id=1"]. Then I can use jQuery to replace the href with the class attribute when the page is loaded. May be a good thing for avoiding only internal links but kind of grey hat cloaking…

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:33:57 +0000

Are you driving at the onmouseover-method? Personally I’m not very fond of it since you have to add this to every link manually and also you’ll have no statistics. With that said I’m not very good at javascript and there might be a work-around to not having to change all the links manually?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:23:02 +0000

Thank you Christie, I’m glad you liked it. There are a few premium tools which do basically the same thing but personally I prefer to recommend the free version if it’s as good as the premium one.

By: Jon Gotlin

Jon Gotlin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:39:46 +0000

What du you think of writing the direct link i the href and use javascript to replace it with the affiliate link?

By: Christie

Christie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:33 +0000

A FREE WordPress plugin that will hide the links?! This blog is quickly becoming one where we can’t afford to miss a post! Thanks so much.

By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:49:47 +0000

Actually, I find it confusing to directly edit my html code. Thank you for letting me know there’s a WordPress plugin for it. A life saver.