Comments on: How to Cloak Your ClickBank Affiliate Links

By: Cloaking your Clickbank affiliate links

Cloaking your Clickbank affiliate links — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:28:49 +0000

Url Posted at C4G Forum…

I saw some people asking this question on DP forums, so I wrote this postHop……

By: Hulk

Hulk — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:17:40 +0000

Instead of making a new elseif for each program to the list, you may populate the inputtet “at=” variable into the hoplink dinamically.

This way, a link to:
site.com/out/at=anything
will redirect to:
username.anything.hop.clickbank.net
And by “anything” I really mean anything, so you should also make sure to escape the string to avoid SQL injections.

By: Best Webhost

Best Webhost — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:10:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing this tip. I am doing a similar php redirect although I took it as an individual php file.

By: Psychic Advice

Psychic Advice — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:16:44 +0000

Too bad i didnt come across this blog before. Great stuff you got here. Thanks.

By: Joseph@1-800Blog

Joseph@1-800Blog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:36:57 +0000

This is a wonderful post. I was astonished to learn that it’s so easy for someone to hijack your bare affiliate link and use it to earn your commissions. Thanks for the post

By: search agent

search agent — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:58:40 +0000

this is great stuff, I will start using this info right away. thanks

By: Erwin Tan

Erwin Tan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:18:52 +0000

Great info for newbies who are starting out affiliate marketing without fearing their commissions being hijacked.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:55:31 +0000

Dear Dave,
Thanks so much for the code for cloaking cb hops.
I have on one page 11 possible out links and would like to track all to try to analyse what goes on.
Do you have any code for doing this?
I’m a newbie but can set up an sql database using cpanel with instructions.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards
and I will definitely be subscribing.
Brian

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:39:37 +0000

Dear Dave,
Tried the php cloaking script but geting ths error

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/newest/public_html/out/index.php:3) in /home/newest/public_html/out/index.php on line 24.

any ideas

Line 24 is:-

22) elseif ( $_GET[’at’] == “Program303″ ){$link = “http://t28022006.amdproduct.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=303/”;}
23) }
24) header(’Location: ‘.$link );
25)
26) ?>
Best Wishes
Brian

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:11:11 +0000

Brian,
You have a space or some other output appearing before the header redirect. That’s why you’re getting the error. For the “header” function to work properly, there must be no other output before that function is called otherwise the header will fail in the manner you’re showing.

Check your script and make sure nothing else is being outputted to the browser before you make the call to the header function.

You can PM me at C4G forums if you need help.

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By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:49:10 +0000

I am sure this is GREAT information. It sounds very technical, and I don’t understand it exactly. I am trying so hard to learn ALL of these things I need to do so I can make some money and keep a roof over my head. MY UNEMPLOYMENT WILL BE ENDING IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.I lost my job in the mortgage business Feb. 21, and my old Buick was stolen April 7. So it looks like the only hope I have is to get some money working on this GRANDFATHER computer.

I have a clickbank account, but no website, YET, and very little money. I thought IF I could just figure out how to cloak the hop link then I would do some marketing using classifieds and email, BUT I AM STILL LOST. IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR ME??

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By: Jonathan Black

Jonathan Black — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:58:16 +0000

I tried doing a html redirect to cloak my link but with todays new secure browsers and advanced anti virus it’s hard to get past their security alerts. I had loads of emails sent to me telling me that my cloaked link was setting off anti virus alerts and also the new no script in Firefox actually shows your real link anyway.
How do we get around that?

Jonathan

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:06:27 +0000

@Jonathan Black - What you’re talking about is not necessarily a “cloaked link”. Redirects are an integral part of maintaining infastructure. Also, I do believe the customers of yours who have complained must have their security settings on default high security. We all know that if you spend hours in your browser, you figure out how to remove all those silly warning messages but newbie internet users will complain to you about something they should be complaining to Microsoft or Firefox about…

Anyway, you could just do a 301 permanent redirect like this…

Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
Header( “Location: http://www.new-url.com” );

By: Kristi Ambrose

Kristi Ambrose — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:24:36 +0000

This is an old post but it was the first post on Google so I have a question. I am an Article Marketer but I know that some directories don’t allow dynamic links with the characters “=” or “?”. So regarding the affiliate or hoplink for clickbank tracking links, is there any way to get around this? Someone told me to check out this Doiop.com but that is a URL shortener and most directories wont allow that either. I can do the regular hoplink fine since its just a regular link but when it comes to tracking, I would like to be ABLE to keep track of what is going on relating to my link. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:28:25 +0000

What about the NoScript plugin for FireFox? As more people get tools like that, the simple php redirect method does not work. Alternatives?

Richard

By: sean

sean — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:06:00 +0000

is this really a solution because certainly with clickbank when you checkout - the affiliate id is there and it turns up in the address box. So whats the use or do i have it wrong? Ive lost over $1000 past few days in commission theft. It would help if Clickbank would just dam well hide the affiliate id at checkout and it IS possible to do. I wrte to them today complaining - not that it will do me much good but what the hell!

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:38:54 +0000

This is good stuff - covers the ‘cloaking’ of affiliate links. So how do I *track* the clicks? Any info appraciated!

By: Daniel Murray

Daniel Murray — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:19:33 +0000

Dave, how do you do it for an iframe?

Thanks,

Dan

By: Site Builder

Site Builder — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:23:29 +0000

@Dan … I think iframes are always a mistake for SEO …

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