Affiliates program from some products, of course, can gain us a profit. We can receive a very big commission if people buy a product from our referral. Moreover, sometimes an affiliate program gives us a bonus discount on the entry through our affiliate. Really fun, isn’t it?
Unfortunately, the link provided by the affiliate sites are often less harmonious. For example:
<a href=”http://www.blabla.com?a=12345″>blabla</a>
The existence of a display “=12345″ in the tag “a” is automatically linked with the bad views of readers when the mouse moves there. In fact, some sites provide links affiliates a more severe (usually in the form of a link to images), for example:
<a href=”http://www.blabla.com/bla_ref_affiliate.dbm?Ref_Option=pub&Ref_PID=12345″> blabla</a>
In addition to the scenery when the mouse hover there, such links also not in accordance with the principle of W3C standard, so it can make our site as a “not valid W3C” site. It can reduce our SEO.
There is an easy trick to minimize this risk, called URL Cloaking, or sometimes call URL Redirection. Although it has “cloaking” name, but I’m sure it is legal, and has a very different meaning from the well-known “cloaking” phrase. Let say, I would like to display affiliate links <a href=”http://www.blabla.com?a=12345″>. Open notepad, and create a file with the name blabla.php. Enter the following code …
<html><head>
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”>
<meta http-equiv=’refresh’ content=’0;url=http://www.blabla.com?a=12345′>
</head></html>
Upload the file to your hosting, in the same folder with index.html or index.php.
Next, edit affiliate links manually from
<a href=”http://www.blabla.com?a=12345″>
to
<a href=”http://www.yoursite.com/blabla.php”>
That’s all…. Your affiliate links display now looks so interesting, and your site remain as a valid W3C site. It can be used in almost every kind of affiliate link’s format. Try it, and you’ll find it really helpfull.
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[...] If you do not cloak (hide) the affiliate links, it’s mean that you make a very high mistakes and risks of losing the higher commission. Some people do not want you to get a commission. It’s real! Some of them choose to manually type the address of the merchant’s website from the address bar of their browser. Sometimes they do this because of jealousy
, and some of them do this because they have a negative think while seeing your very long and suspicious affiliate link. Handle this problem by using redirect service such TinyURL.com to hide your affiliate link. Or, if you want some better cloaking URL way, you can read the tutorial here. [...]
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