Most of affiliate guru’s use this technique to hide their affiliate link. This method allows you to hide your affiliate link. With this technique, customer will not know that you actually offering the product and you receive money when someone buys the product. But not all affiliate program allow you to hide your affiliate, again it’s depend on affiliate TOS.
There is few technique how to hide your affiliate link, I will show you some sample how to hide it.
.httaccess
This file allows you to redirect to any URL you want to go. This file only works on Linux operating system. You can find this file on your hosting server, usually on public_html or htdocs directory. If your hosting doesn’t have this file, you need to create one. Use notepad to create this file.
How its work? All you have to do is open .httaccess file and put some code like this bellow.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^more_info_affiliate_name.php$ http://affiliate_site.com/?ref=your_affiliate_id [R]
With this code “RewriteEngine on”, you activated mod rewrite program on your hosting. When user clicks on www.your-url.com/more_info_affiliate_name.php it will redirect to affiliate site with your affiliate code included.
PHP Redirect
Easy way to hide your affiliate link is with PHP technique. Most of blogger use Wordpress for their blog. Wordpress are build under PHP technology, so it will be easier to use this technique. To hide your affiliate link with PHP, just create new PHP file and add this code on PHP file you just created.
Create a file more_info_affiliate_name.php and add this code on it.
<?
Header (“Location: http://affiliate_site.com/?ref=your_affiliate_id”);
?>
Save your new file and upload to your server. This file works if someone accesses your URL “www.your-url.com/more_info_affiliate_name.php” and redirect it to your affiliate site with your affiliate code included.
HTML Redirect
Another technique using html refresh function. This technique works on every kind of server. You just need to create an html file…
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