Why & How To Mask Your Affiliate Links

October 11, 2008 in News by Olgi Zenullari

There are many people in the world who suffer from Affiliateophobia (afraid of affiliate links) They think that by registering from an affiliate link, they are going to lose money. The answer is NO. They wont lose anything by joining a program from an affiliate link

I have made an experiment before a couple of months ago and used 2 different types of affiliate links which both lead on the same page

A) http://www.olgizenullari.com/make-money/?aff=olgize
B) http://www.olgizenullari.com/make-money.php

Both of the above URL’s are an example of what I used and both of them redirected in the same offer page

I saw that OPTION B had 60 % more signups than OPTION A. This means that most of the internet marketer’s who use the first option to get referrals are losing some members (hence cash) just because of a simple thing. I strongly recommend you to use the following ways to mask your affiliate links

How To Mask Your Affiliate Links

TinyURL – TinyUrl is a nice feature which converts all your long affiliate links in something like http://tinyurl.com/s4576. You can also use their custom alias to add an appropriate keyword at the end of your link (example: http://tinyurl.com/makecash)
PHP-Redirect – This is one of the most commonly used methods nowdays from different top affiliate marketers. You simply create a new .php page (new.php) and add the following code

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.youraffiliatesite.com/?user-id=123 ) ;
?>

So just add your desired affiliate link on it and then save it as your affiliate name.php. Then upload it on your server
Hidden Affiliate Links – Its a nice and easy to configure WordPress plugin which can automatically any keyword you would like in an affiliate link