Hidden Affiliate Links
Cloaking affiliate links are important. Let’s face it, affiliate links are ugly. They scream SPAM. People hesitate to click when they see an ugly affiliate link. But fortunately, there are quite a few ways to cloak affiliate links. There are both paid and free ways. This post will show you how to cloak your affiliate links for FREE using a simple php script. I have previously listed few WordPress plugins that can be used to cloak affiliate links. While it’s a great way, it can sometimes slow down your site. Redirection itself can become slow because it is handled by WordPress. Using independent php files are faster and secure. Concept Concept is very simple. We’ll create a new directory inside our site’s document root. And we’ll create php files inside this directory that redirects to affiliate links. We can simply link to these php files (Or file) whenever we want to post affiliate links. You can see this in action on my recommended VPS providers post. We will then tell Google and oth
