Cpanel redirects is a cheap and easy way to create cloaked affiliate links. To get started, you will of course need a cPanel account, which you should get automatically when you obtain web hosting from most providers.
In your cPanel account, just click on Redirects.
Then, create your cloaked affiliate link like the example below.
cPanel redirects should be “301 Permanent” redirects, and you should always choose “Redirect with or without www”. You can use this method with just about any type of affiliate link.
However, until cloaking your affiliate links with LinkTrackr, you will not be able to view your click stats, use campaigns, or tracks conversions.
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Hi Gobala, using Cpanel redirects will still reveal your affiliate code to the user, who can choose to hijack, or bypass it. Using Linktrackr solves this problem, but then there’s the issue of the user not seeing the actual url of the website he’s looking at… he only sees user.linktrackr.com/product which could give rise to questions on credibility.
Any workarounds?
If you don’t cloak the links, the user will eventually be redirected to the actual site. You can use custom domains if you don’t want them to see name.linktrackr.com
What about registering your domain with the Vendor so that every sale that comes through your own domain is tracked to you so you never need to use any link with any codes to promote anything that vendor sells.
Can’s you set up software to provide that service for us too? We just send them without cloaking or anything so people just click our ads [no links] to go direct to the vendor. Who gets paid for their sale is none of their business anyway.
That’s a great idea but no one is doing it, there must be a reason why..
Probably because YOU haven’t invented it yet so do you have to be the Affiliate Network to make this work? LinkConnector’s patent pending Naked Link Technology, offers merchants the ability to run an affiliate program transparently, complementing their search engine optimization efforts.