Hiding affiliate links - Best Blogs Asia
Try to make links not look like affiliate links and blend in with the look of your own site.
Linking to affiliate programmes with your own affiliate code is a sure fire way of making money. However, there are two schools of thought by a user – 1) if it looks like an affiliate link, they won’t click it and 2) if it doesn’t follow with the look of the site, they may not click it either. This article will help you.
Ways of disguising affiliate links
Firstly you should of already applied to relevant affiliate offers and made a list of the affiliate urls.
Meta Redirect
You can create a page which contains the following code, which when clicked on will redirect to your affiliate link. This code is useful for people who’d like a quick fix. In the
tag place:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=AFFILIATE URL HERE">
PHP Disguise
Create a .php file containing the name of your affiliate product – say bestblogsasia.php, then within the new .php file add:
<?php
header( 'Location:http://www.bestblogs.asia
' ) ;?>
htaccess 301
My personal preference is to use this placement although the the .htaccess file can get quite large:
Redirect 301 /go/affiliate.htm http://www.affiliate.com/?ref=123
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