Comments on: How To Hide Your Affiliate Links

By: Christopher Shennan - Lots Of Freebies

Christopher Shennan - Lots Of Freebies — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:10:47 +0000

I was considering writing my own WordPress plugin to do this but after reading your post I’ve installed “Redirection” and it works perfectly.

The only problem I had was that I could not find the “Manage -> Redirection” option to add a redirection and it was later pointed out to me that in WordPress 2.7 this is under “Tools -> Redirection” instead.

This has saved me quite of bit of work.

Many Thanks.

By: Yan Shall Blog

Yan Shall Blog — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:23:59 +0000

I simply love this idea. Does it affect your SEO in any way? Still, thanks for the heads up. I’m downloading it right now…

Yan

By: Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com

Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:16:06 +0000

I don’t use Tinyurl, for two main reasons:
1. For the newcomer the link looks weird enough for not to click on.
2. The expert will go to their website and trace the link.

What I do is PHP redirect, which is a fairly simple idea, but now I will definitely install this plugin. Looks very useful.

Thanks,
Alex.

By: Marketing Blog

Marketing Blog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:43:50 +0000

I use a simple html page that hides my affiliate urls

so the address bar looks like blog.com/recommends/adtoll

By: Chetan

Chetan — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:25:03 +0000

Yep Bloggeries, i use a similar method like the mechanism of the URL Redirection plugin of wordpress.
Tinyurl just looks odd actually.

By: impNERD

impNERD — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:01:47 +0000

TinyURL defeats the purpose. People don’t like clicking external links, especially when they never heard of something before. TinyURL is sometimes seen as spam, and is an external link as well. Double wammy.

By: Bloggeries

Bloggeries — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:05:24 +0000

Chetan; are you saying you prefer the method mentioned above?

By: Chetan

Chetan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:53:26 +0000

To both my above commenters i have to say frankly that many people including me dont like tinyurl links as affiliate links.

By: Bloggeries

Bloggeries — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:35:16 +0000

Good post; I’m with Chris I normally just use tinyURL but who knows what could of been…

By: Living on Adsense

Living on Adsense — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:58:01 +0000

I just get super lazy and use tinyurl to mask all of my links. I doesn’t look as pretty but its quick and effective