How to redirect your affiliate/ref links with PHP

Larkino · 01-04-09, 07:19 PM

Hey All

Read this a few days ago on a blog I frequent, and thought it might be helpful to some people:

How To Mask Your Affiliate Links | Rishabh Sood - Blogging Tips, SEO Tricks, Tips, Link Building Tricks Much More!

moviedrome · 01-04-09, 07:21 PM

Get an error when i open that page but masking ref links isn't allowed anyway?

Larkino · 01-04-09, 07:22 PM

I'm pretty sure it's redirecting, not masking

digger600 · 01-04-09, 07:30 PM

ERROR for me too

moviedrome · 01-04-09, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larkino

How To Mask Your Affiliate Links

Okies, was just from the title

Larkino · 01-04-09, 07:35 PM

well works for me.
This is what it said:

Quote:

Hello guys,

Its been a while now.. I was a bit busy with my exams and now as they’re over I have plenty of time to update the blog

So today, I am gonna tell you about Making your affiliate links.

There are lots of people around who think if they buy something using an affiliate link, they’re going to loose money or get scammed or somthing. But this isnt really true, If you sign up with an affiliate link you arent going to loose anything but you’ll be giving some benifit to the person whole affiliate link you are from.

Still, if people are afraid of clicking your affiliate links you can always mask them and it’d help you to earn more money.

How To Mask Your Affiliate Links

TinyUrl.com - TinyUrl.com is a site which helps you make your URL short. You can use their custom alias system to build a good url.

PHP-Redirection - This one of the commonly used method and I love it, use it and recommed it

You just need to create a new .php file for every affiliate link of your.

For eg: If your affiliate link is about a Compaq Laptop, you should name the file as compaq-laptop.php

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.youraffiliatesite.com/?user-id=14w5423 ) ;
?>

Put this code in the .php file and don’t forget to replace your URL :P This is all I have about How To Mask Your Affiliate Links. If I have more info on it, I’ll update you guys

Thanks,

Rishabh Sood

mcgrou · 01-04-09, 08:01 PM

I think when it says "mask" it means redirect.

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01-04-09, 08:01 PM	#7
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