link friendly script

[cvos]

hi i saw a small script that would allow you to redirect an affiliate link to something much more user friendly.

so you could use:
www.mysite.com/affiliateprogramURL

instead of
www.affiliateprogramURL.com/?id=445e&pg=home&tracking=53422

i saw a nice one (here?) that had a simple web interface and click tracking.

I know how to do this with .htaccess

Redirect Permanent  /affiliateprogramURL www.affiliateprogramURL.com/?id=445e&pg=home&tracking=53422

but would like to setup hundreds through a web interface.

thanks

 

[Linda Buquet]

Hi cvos,

Welcome to 5 Star!

You probably saw it here or at my blog.
This one's slick and it's what I use.
Super easy interface, great stats and
graphs of your outbound clicks for tracking.

Organize, Track and Cloak Affiliate Links EASY

Its not free but it's good.

FYI Lesson I learned the hard way. I mainly use it for tracking my outbound clicks to my clients so I know how much traffic I'm driving. On of my clients said THEY could not track my inbound traffic because I was using a framed link. I didn't even know I'd done it.

So if you add a description to your link it will frame the link.
If you don't add a description it will be a normal cloaked link like you described.
Some affiliate programs don't allow framing so be careful.

 

[Linda Buquet]

Is that the one you were looking for?

 

[DiDi]

You can build your own but creating a new folder at your host and putting there index.php with the code

<script> 
url="'http://www.affiliate.com/yourcodehere; 
if(document.images) { top.location.replace(url); } 
else { top.location.href=url; } 
</script> 

Loading 
<a href="http://www.affiliate.com/yourcodehere">page</a>...

I got it recommend over DP forum so it's not my idea.

 

[cvos]

yes, this is the one. it looks like a great product but the Go website really turns me off.

thanks!