cloaking affiliate links

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Boston90

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I want to have a control panel for my affiliate links something that can report clicks and I can re-direct the link to another offer in-case if an offer is not available anymore.

for ex : instead of posting on my site "Visit the site" with the affiliate url I'll have my own link that will direct the visitor to the affiliate url like mysite.com/offer/1

which script do you recommend for doing so ? would also like to know about WP plugin that does it...thanks.
 


Not tried them yet, but I saw these recommended:
Affiliate Link Script - Hide and Track Your Affiliate URL Links with PHP Link Cloaker
Affiliate Link Cloaking & Link Redirects Script - Stealth Link Technology

> would also like to know about WP plugin that does it

There's a dozen or more of them. Just google 'wordpress link cloaker'.

I think I remember reading that the problem with the WP plugins is that they only handle the links for each site, whereas scripts like the ones above give you one place to control all your links from several sites, and are not WP dependent (Eg. you can cloak links in ebooks and emails, etc to, I think).

If you find a good one, post back! I'd be interested in your research.
 
The first software look nice.

Well I know a way to do it with out tracking clicks and so on...just by simple html here's the code :

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 http-equiv="content-type">
  <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://yoursite.com">
  <title>Loading Up... Please Wait</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

anyway free script that does is will be nice.
 
Noob leading noob here, but I just read that tracking 202 has built-in "destination url cloaking" for the user, and "referral cloaking" so your network can't see the traffic source, as well as obviously tracking your traffic for you.

If you don't want to use tracking202, I also read that the above metafresh should be a "double metafresh" to be effective, and that even then it doesn't blank the referrer when the user has safari, opera or chrome.
 
I don't care if they know the traffic source or not.

Not sure what you meant to say, on your 2nd paragraph but the code above works well in all browsers.

Tracking 202 seems like a nice software but I think you better host all the links
 
Guys,

Definitely go with tracking202 or better yet, set up prosper1.6 beta on your server. You'll be glad you did
 
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