There are plenty of good plugins to mask text affiliate links. I've spent days trying to find a simple way to mask an affiliate link from an image to the vendor's website. Any suggestions? Preferably not heavy html.
There are plenty of good plugins to mask text affiliate links. I've spent days trying to find a simple way to mask an affiliate link from an image to the vendor's website. Any suggestions? Preferably not heavy html.
The easiest way would be to set up a redirect either by hand or with a plugin, then take that link and replace the one in the image. So if the HTML for the original banner looks like this:
You would replace the link immediately following href= (between the quotes) with your shortened version.Code:<a href="http://aweber.com/?316490" title="Email Marketing"> <img src="http://www.aweber.com/banners/email_marketing_easy/125x125.gif" alt="AWeber - Email Marketing Made Easy" style="border:none;" />
I'm not aware of a plugin that will do this, unfortunately, but perhaps someone else has an idea.
Cindy
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Pretty Link Pro will create cloaked links. The free version will give you short urls but won't cloak them.
Christine Cobb
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What exactly are they cloaking in the pro version? I've always considered just a short link (on my own domain) to be sufficient. Am I missing something?
Cindy
The Educated VA
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The free version is more of a mask and redirect of an individually picked keyword, while the Pro can choose and link multiple keywords out of the text, randomly. And it has the option of physically cloaking a website so, by the domain name on the newly opened page, it looks like the user is still on your site rather than the vendor's. Pretty slick. And I think your suggestion of how to redirect should work, but I couldn't make it.
Cloaking is one of the redirect options in the pro version. It keeps your pretty link in the address bar. For example if you go to http://mybonusblog.com/trafficvideo which is my affiliate link for Jimmy D Brown's Traffic FUEL program, you'll see that link in the address bar rather than the affiliate link.
Christine Cobb
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