Have you ever visited a landing page and thought "holy hell, those affiliate links are just painfully obvious!" ? Well, I have. So I thought I'd create a post to let you know how to cloak your links so they at least aren't so obvious.

Requirements

  • PHP
  • Apache
  • Affiliate Link

Description

What you're going to do is create a couple of lines (if they don't exist already) in your .htaccess file. Then you're going to create a PHP file that the lines will point to and then you'll create your links. Easy as pie.

Step 1

Create a file called jump.php (located in your root web folder) and place the following code inside-

jump_php.txt

Step 2

Open or create and then open your .htaccess file (located in your root web folder). Once you have it open, place the following code inside-

jump_htaccess.txt

Once you've done that, save the file to your website and close it.

Step 3

Wherever you'd like your cloaked affiliate links to be, you can code them like this:

<a href="/jump/growersflowers.com">GrowersFlowers.com</a>
o
<a href="/jump/christmas_trees">Christmas Trees</a>

And they will end up looking like this:

GrowersFlowers.com

Christmas Trees

So there you go. Your links are cloaked and no one will be the wiser!

Good luck.

-Scott

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