How to hide url when hovering over link?

[KUSHxKILLA]

Hi, I had a question about something I've been seeing on other freebie sites. When you hover over a link, for the url it would display something like sitename.com/register instead of your referral link. Can anyone explain how to do this. An example is on MJ10's site: Free iPhone 4S - Contract Free iPhone 4 - Guaranteed FREE iPHONE

[ryan1087]

They send it to a url which then has a redirect (probably 301), going to their referral link. Also tracking codes may be used in the custom url too.

[KUSHxKILLA]

Originally Posted by ryan1087

They send it to a url which then has a redirect (probably 301), going to their referral link.

Oh. Do you know how to do that?

[Cruelworld]

Create a folder in your hosting root called register
Place a file in there called index.html
In that index file place this code...

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://affiliatelink.bla">

Call the file by using the example you gave earlier ... site.com/register

When it calls the register folder it will automatically open index.html which will redirect to your aff link.

[KUSHxKILLA]

Originally Posted by Cruelworld

Create a folder in your hosting root called register
Place a file in there called index.html
In that index file place this code...

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://affiliatelink.bla">

Call the file by using the example you gave earlier ... site.com/register

When it calls the register folder it will automatically open index.html which will redirect to your aff link.

Thanks. Too much work. Is it worth it?

[ryan1087]

Too much work? It takes a few minutes.

[KUSHxKILLA]

Ok. fine I'll try it

[Cruelworld]

Originally Posted by KUSHxKILLA

Thanks. Too much work. Is it worth it?

Too much work ?
Create a folder with an index page in it and call it with site.com/register

Too much work ?

Put it this way, if you ever have to replace all 30 links on your site you will have to do them all one at a time won't you ?

If you do this then you will just need to edit the ref link in register/index.html and all links that use that will be changed at once ...

[KUSHxKILLA]

Wait where do I put the ref link in that and the sitename.com/join?

[Cruelworld]

Originally Posted by KUSHxKILLA

Wait where do I put the ref link in that and the sitename.com/join?

You put the ref link in that code that is in the register/index.html file.

sitename.com/register (or whatever you call the folder) goes in your main page html links.

<a href="http://sitename. com/register">anchor</a>

[KUSHxKILLA]

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=ref link here?">

[Cruelworld]

Originally Posted by KUSHxKILLA

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=ref link here?">

That goes in the index.html that you create inside the folder that you need to create called REGISTER
Nothing else, just that. No other code at all.

Then on your main website page, instead of having <a href="http:/ /yourreflink/98765">Anchor</a> you would have
<a href="http://youraddress. com/register">Anchor</a>

[KUSHxKILLA]

Originally Posted by Cruelworld

That goes in the index.html that you create inside the folder that you need to create called REGISTER
Nothing else, just that. No other code at all.

Then on your main website page, instead of having <a href="http:/ /yourreflink/98765">Anchor</a> you would have
<a href="http://youraddress. com/register">Anchor</a>

Oh okay i get it now. thanks! +rep. g2g will try in 30min.

[az87aris]

I've been tempted to to this for ages but the current use of itemids has put me off. I would need alot of redirects!

[Cruelworld]

Originally Posted by az87aris

I've been tempted to to this for ages but the current use of itemids has put me off. I would need alot of redirects!

I use it on some of my sites but not on others for this very reason.
It would be worth it though if you have numerous instances of each itemid link.

I think it also looks more professional than a referral link.

If you do use it then be sure to log out of your freebie account and test the link, make sure it lands on your affiliate account :P

[MJ10]

I use a php file as well as what you have explained.

So my set up means if you just go to that root (ie /signup) you'll get 301'd to a sign up page. However I like to be able to chop and change my links sometimes so have the link IDs as 'kudos' 'iPhone' 'FJ' etc which link to the relevant ref numbers in the php file.

Really didn't take much work. There's a thread about it on eXceem somewhere, or I'm sure one of you will be able to find the file on my site!!

Or if your using Wordpress then get the PrettyLink plugin.

[KUSHxKILLA]

Didn't work...

[az87aris]

Then you did something wrong, I've not tried it but the instructions set out for you above are incredibly simple and are fool proof, so to speak..

[KUSHxKILLA]

Alright it worked. All I had to do was in the anchor line, instead of sitename.com/register, I had to do sitename.com/register/index.html

[MJ10]

Originally Posted by KUSHxKILLA

Alright it worked. All I had to do was in the anchor line, instead of sitename.com/register, I had to do sitename.com/register/index.html

EDIT: it looks like you've done it on the site in your sig. You have site.com/register/uk.html etc - You could get rid of the ".html" simply by putting the "index.html" into a further folder (see below)

You need to:

put the register "index.html" into a folder called "register". Then change your links to just "site.com/register" - this should mean that when a "site.com/register" link is clicked it will look for the index file in the folder and redirect you to the sign up page.

So your root should look like this:

index.html (your site home page)
register (folder)
- index.html (the redirect inside the register folder)

I'd recommend putting all your pages into folders like this as it removes the "index.html" from the url string. EG:

index.html (home page)
Register (folder)
- index.html
How (folder)
- index.html
Proof Page (folder)
- index.html

Your urls will look like:

site.com
site.com/how
site.com/proof

rather than:

site.com/index.html
site.com/how/index.html
site.com/proof/index.html