The Ultimate Affiliate Link Cloaker
With the Ultimate Affiliate Link Cloaker, you’ll be able to cloak your affiliate links and redirect hungry buyers to the affiliate programs you’re promoting. You can mask and redirect URLs to stop link hijacking, send the users straight to the purchase page, or even drop the affiliate cookie without the user having to visit the vendor’s sales page!
Meta Tag Redirect
Step 1. Copy & paste the code above into your favorite text editor and save the file as and make sure you upload the file to .
Step 2. Copy & paste the code above into your sales copy. This will be the link to your new cloaked redirect page at .
iFrame Cloaking
Step 1. Copy & paste the code above into your favorite text editor and save the file as and make sure you upload the file to .
Step 2. Copy & paste the code above into your sales copy. This will be the link to your new cloaked redirect page at .
PHP Redirect
Step 1. Copy & paste the code above into your favorite text editor and save the file as and make sure you upload the file to .
Step 2. Copy & paste the code above into your sales copy. This will be the link to your new cloaked redirect page at .
ASP Redirect
Step 1. Copy & paste the code above into your favorite text editor and save the file as and make sure you upload the file to .
Step 2. Copy & paste the code above into your sales copy. This will be the link to your new cloaked redirect page at .
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This is great- I stumbled onto this site and now I don’t have to worry if I’m getting my affiliate links bypassed!
I’m also seeing a higher click-rate and more commissions just from the fact that people are less gun-shy about clicking on my links. Thanks for putting this together!
PS. The cookie stuffer is a nice touch!!! Smart move not doing it all the time. It would be kind of cool if we could actually select the percentage of time that a cookie gets dropped.
Chris, thanks for the comments. I did go ahead and add a selector for the % chance of dropping an affiliate cookie – hope that helps!
Really freaking cool! Thanks for the good work. Now I don’t have these insanely long affiliate links to mess with!
I really appreciate date information. I am a newbie to internet marketing. How can I use this on website I do not own or a blog? Thanks.
Nate, thanks for the kind comments. You can always post cloaked links in blog comments or forums, but that would still require that you have a domain of your own. You can use the link shortening sites like Bit.ly, but then you don’t get the “authority” you normally would with your own keyword related domain.
Thank you for this fantastic tool buddy, It helped me firstly understand the concept of cookie dropping and whats more, now how I can benefit from using it. Legendary!
Glad you liked it! I’ve also got a dedicated cookie dropping plugin that I’m developing, and you can check out the progress here:
http://www.affiliatetechhelp.com/wordpress/lab/
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Thanks a lot for this great tool.
I got one question, however. In my page I have three different links with the same affiliate tracker:
for example:
…master.de/4tracker.php?banid= 129362&campid=2926
…master.de/4tracker.php?banid= 129462&campid=2926
…master.de/4tracker.php?banid= 129562&campid=2926
(banner 1: 1293…banner 2: 1294…banner 3: 1295…)
Will I have to generate three different cookie or is there a way to have only a single code?
If you want to drop a cookie for each, then you’d need to create the cookie code per link
In true I’d like:
ONE cookie for 3 links.
I tryied to put in ALTERNATE, a second link, but I receive a cookie iqual the 1st.
there are a way to get ONE cookie about 3 links?
I’ve been searching the internet for a while now looking for a simple way to cloak links and just stumbled across your site. Your cloaking tools are amazing. Thanks so much for creating something like this. I can’t wait to cloak more links!!! Thank you!!
what is the purpose of this “cookie dropping” and how should i use it
I’ve got a great video here that explains what cookie dropping is. Enjoy! http://www.affiliatetechhelp.com/ultimate-link-cloaker/training-videos/
Well done. Very interesting. I have read about similar techniques that require that you write the code yourself, which is quite a skill by itself. Would your code work for cloaking the affiliate source within a hyperlink within an ebook? I am about to release an ebook and I am looking for a way to cloak the affiliate code within the embedded hyperlinks, but since it is an ebook and not a website I am puzzling over a method to cloak them.
George,
Good question. I’m assuming that if you’re launching an eBook, you’ll want to have a website where people can view info on it and possibly buy/download it. I did that same thing with an eBook that I recently released to our investor’s group. What I did was create all my cloaked links on my site, then use those URLs in my eBook.
It takes a little while to organize all the links, but once you have them all done, you can just right click and copy the link location from the Pages screen if you’re using WordPress. If you’re cloaking with static pages, just keep a text file of all your affiliate links and copy from there.
And yes it does work. Good luck with the eBook!
Thank you so much for this page, I use some function of it almost every day.
Awesome software! This is exactly what I was looking for. This is easy to do and works great. Thanks!
Hey Pat,
How would I get this code into an Aweber Follow-up/Broadcast? They’re telling me to just hyperlink it but I don’t see too many guys doing that.
A
I’m not sure I follow. Are you talking about cloaking links in AWeber email broadcast? If that’s the case, then yes, you’d just create your cloaked link, then insert that into your email.
Hope that helps!
Yep! So I just create my cloaked affiliate link and copy paste it to my emails? No html code? Can it be done in a plain text email?
A
You got it! Make sure you create the cloaked link and test it before pasting into AWeber, but once you’ve got that done you can paste it directly into a plain text email. If you’re sending an HTML based email, you may want to make sure you hyperlink it if the editor doesn’t do it automatically.
I guess I’m confused. I just tried it (iFrame). I copied and pasted the link I created and drop it in the navbar and it it sent me to a “Not found” website….
Where did I go wrong?
A
Email me at pfriedl_at_nebulus_dot_org and include the link you’re trying to cloak, as well as the link to the iFramed page. We’ll see if we can’t get it going.
Sorry to see that tis only works for Clickbank — But I love the thing.
Actually it’ll work for ANY affiliate system. I did add the ClickBank purchase link option in there, but the cloaker isn’t limited to ClickBank links!
Can I add link cloaker to blogger or any web 2.0 site. I have tried it in blogger but can’t seem to get it work, I could be doing something wrong tho or does it just work in wordpress. Will it work in xsite pro
You should be able to add the cloaking methods to any web 2.0 website or blogger template, as long as you either have access to editing the site online, or FTP access. As far as editing a Blogger template, I have to admit I don’t have any experience with the Blogger platform so I’m not sure how you’d add the redirect code in your pages.
Pat,
When I create the cloaked link as directed above, the code that is produced has a line that says (at the very bottom of the meta tag redirect code):
There was a problem loading the page. Click here to proceed.
What am I doing wrong? I checked the affiliate link I am using and it works fine on its own.
I’d have to see the link you’re testing. We’ve found that some sites employ frame-breaker scripts and other methods that can mess with cloaking. If you email me pfriedl -at- gmail, then I’d be happy to take a look!
Hi, great tool.
IS there any way to hide the referrer page/blank it?
Thanks
Hiding the referrer takes a little work, and is considered to be blackhat by some vendors. That being said… you might try the Affiliate Cookie Jar plugin – it does redundant referring, which helps with hiding the referrer
Hi Pat,
I am looking for your exact tool but for a Cpa network link. Can you tell me if that’s posible and if so how i can achieve that?
Can i talk to you directly for some help?
Thanks a lot!
Jan
Jan,
I suspect the cloaker tools on the site should be able to help with a CPA network. If you want, you can email me direct at pfriedl -at- gmail, and I’d be happy to help out.
Hey Pat,
is your cookie stuff undetectable?
is it possible to drop cookies on ips of a particular country (only), at the rate of 200 clicks/traking ids ?
for instance i wanna drop cookie on US ips only and drive traffic of 200 clicks on one traking id and another 200 on the other traking ids (we have to buy traffic for this)
is it possible ? if yes please help me out
IT does a pretty good job of hiding the referrer, but I’m working on beefing it up to be as undetectable as possible. Since at some point you do have to access the affiliate site to get the cookie, there does have to be some code in the page. So it’s not 100% undetectable.
As far as dropping on particular IPs, that doesn’t happen in this version of the plugin.
Hi Pat,
Very useful tool but i do have one question:
Is there a way to use an image instead of the anchor text?
Absolutely. Instead of the text like this:
<a href="affiliate link">Buy me now!</a>, you’d use:<a href="affiliate link"><img src="your image here"></a>Hope that helps!
Hey Pat thank you so much for the clocking demo, what great value for us newbies. I hope to be able to help give value to someone some day.
Thank Again
James
Hi Pat,
I’m playing around with your great tool, but being a newbe to a lot i have a simple question about your explanation about how to use the cookie stuffer code. You tell the users to use the code in the sales page and not in the redirect pages.
Is the salespage the page that the affiliate network is connecting to my link, and should i add the code on my account there, or should i paste the code in my banners html code located on my site?
Please clarify what you mean with “sales Copy” in your explanation for using the generated code. Sorry if it might be a stupid question, i’m still struggling with some English terminology.
Regards Jan
Jan,
Yes, sales copy would be your landing page where you’re sending traffic – be it a blog page or post, a squeeze page, or just a page with sales copy – the text you’re using to sell the product.
So if you’re going to drop an affiliate cookie, you’d put the code you generated in the cloaking tool in the source code of the page (the actual HTML code) near the end of your page before the </body> tag.
Hope that helps!
Hi Pat,
I got an answer to my previous question already, but i’d lik to ask you about how i can generate a cookiecode in https with a valid ssl certificate.
Can you u help me with that?
Thanks…
Jan
So if I understand correctly, you want to drop a cookie on a secure page, or drop a cookie from a secure site? It really doesn’t matter and should work no matter what.
The only problem you might run into is if you’re on a secure page and you drop a cookie from a non https affiliate link – your user may get a prompt that some items on the page are not secure. Other than that, you should have no issue.
This screen only works half of the time for me. I complete all the necessary fields and then I click iframe and nothing shows below.
Am I doing something wrong?
Oops! It looks like the latest updates to IE made the cloaker tool stop working for Internet Explorer. Try it out using FireFox, Safari, Opera or Chrome (guaranteed to work, I tested it!) and in the meantime I’ll try to get this working for IE. Sorry for the mess!
Not working on Chrome or Mozilla for me
Sorry about that – we had a plugin conflict that was causing the problem. All fixed!
This page seems to have stopped working. When I click the button the code does not show, regardless of what browser I use.
Sorry about that – we had a plugin conflict that was causing the break in the code. All fixed!
The buttons only seem to work if your pop-up is still showing at the bottom of this page, weird…
Yup, it was a plugin conflict. We disabled the pop-up so it should work fine now. Sorry about that!
Your awesome. Thank you.
As far as I know, Clickbank says that we must not cloak the link in a Frame (Affiliate Dos and Donts), masking a link is a kind of putting a link into a frame. I am wondering about the iFrame you are suggesting here is a type of putting a link into a frame?
My second question is what you are offering is so cool, but too good to believe it is free. Moreover, many people suggested that NEVER use a third party cloaking services. I am sorry for my doubt.
Actually, masking a link isn’t necessarily putting it in an iframe – that’s just one method for cloaking. You can also cloak the link by using a redirect as well which is also available with the Ultimate Link Cloaker.
As far as using a 3rd party cloaking service, this isn’t so much a service as a tool to help you cloak your own links. Other services like URL shorteners (tinyURL, Bit.ly, etc) are 3rd party services. This tool is completely free and has no catch. Hope that helps!
thank you
Hi, I’m a newbie and I got a few questions.
I heard that if you cloak a link you could end up losing some sells. Is that true?
Which setting would be best if I were to use this cloaked link when submitting to an article directory like EzineArticles?
Are there certain cloaking and redirects that make it hard to track your traffic if I plan to use a redirect from my homepage?
Justin,
Depending on what commission system you’re using (Amazon, eBay, ClickBank, Commission Junction, etc) they all have different policies on cloaking links. Cloaking has gotten a bad wrap as something underhanded, when basically you’re providing a much cleaner looking link. Remember that the user clicking your cloaked link is on your site, reading your content and has decided to take action – nothing wrong with that!.
When posting eZine articles, you definitely want your link going to your site where you can cloak links on-site. eZine will get cranky if you use cloaked links in your articles.
Amazing Great stuff Searching for 2 years for this and the cookie thing phenomenal! but how do I upload the iframe to my website. The idea of completely cloaking links in the page source is fantastic , however I have had problems in uploading to my website I tried doing a php direct using the simple code clickbank advise and watched loads of videos following step by step but it never worked – I use Filezilla – still my click bank code showed in the browser bar and other affiliate codes in the browser bar. My server for this particular website is Hostgator. I have some experience Please help how to upload the iframe to my website for each affiliate link….
Many Thanks I am now a new avid follower to http://www.affiliatetechhelp.com
Yvonne
Yvonne,
First, you’d want to save the iFrame code as an html or php file. then you can just FTP it to your site with FileZilla – it’s as easy as that!
Hi Pat, really great stuff you’ve got there. I am a newbie too and would like to ask a few questions.
I am using wordpress for my website and installed a clickbank widget on my side bar with mutiple ad-links from clickbank. How do I use your iframe cloaking tool for multiple ad-links on my side bar.
As you have mentioned in your video, after pasting the html codes on notepad, do i save it as a html file or php file ?
Does filename matter?
Which part of the wordpress folder do I ftp to?
Many Thanks.
If you’re using the iFrame cloaking method, then you can save it as whatever file type fits your needs. Being a webdev, I like to stick to .php extensions because I can always add server side code to it if I want to.
You can also FTP it to whatever folder you’d like, but for cloaking, I like to make a new folder like “go” and put the files in there.
Hope that helps!
Hi Pat, Really appreciate the explanation and your prompt reply. The iframe cloaking really rocks.
Just wanted to ask how to cloak my multiple affiliate clickbank links if it is contained in A single wordpress widget. I am not able to find any affiliate links there as the coding in the widget does not include the links to my vendor’s webpage similar to the ones with the ugly url.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Using the meta tag redirect method, the new cloaked link is replaced by the “ugly affiliate link” in firefox after the redirect page opens.
Any feedback on this plse?
Dario,
Unfortunately, you can’t hide the ugly link forever and you do have to visit that link in order to get the cookie set and possibly get your commission. The link cloaking does help in getting people to click a clean looking, professional link, and once they’ve clicked it, the affiliate cookie with your ID is dropped and you’re good to go. Hope that straightens everything out!
Awesome!!! You seriously rock dude. The very finest piece of code writing I’ve ever seen. Not only is your affiliate tool overboard with being super deluxe but your tutorials are so clear and extremely understandable. Way to go. I will pass the word about you & your site for sure. Thanks again
This is ABSOLUTELY a GREAT tool. I’ve been searching for something like this for a while and happened to stumble across this site. You’ve done me a great service …THANX A MILLION!!! Keep up the great work!
i’ve a very important question
when i take some product to promote when i
click on it to get more information about
this is link format
http://www.productname.com/hop=0
if i’m a buyer i won’t buy from this link i’d just
go to http://www.productname.com
and buy it ??
am i right ??????????????????????????
This is why you’d use a link cloaking technique. A lot of buyers won’t even be concerned with this, but some might. Having a good looking cloaked link will help convert the rest!
I just want to say “thank you” for a very useful tool.
The importance of cloaking your affiliate links can’t be expressed clearly enough.
Regards,
Michael
Hey Pat, I just stumbled onto this at you tube and it’s awesome! I’ve heard about link cloaking but couldn’t figure it out. I am having a problem though. I’m using web sight tonight from godady and I can’t figure out how to put this to work. I’ve tried uploading the file and all but the link editor for urls only allows “http” type links or “upload a file” which when published, askes the user to open the xl file that I saved it in. Kinda stuck. Can you help me?
Dave,
Thanks for using the cloaker – I hope it helps! I’m not sure why you’re saving it in excel, but the cloaking should be in a web ready format like html, php, asp or similar format.
Aloha,
I just really wanted to say thank you for this video. I’m very new and this and been trying to find a way to cloak my links for the last week or so because I am so new all the work I do I don’t want anyone stealing my cash.
Anyway, I’ve so glad I found you. You are a goddess sent.
thank you, thank you , thank you
Ok, something I’m not doing right.
How do I upload my redirect page to the address? I’m want to use the links in cragslist.
If you have an FTP program (I suggest FileZilla), you can connect to your web host and load the files to your account. Or, most hosts have a control panel where you can upload/download and manage files on your site.
I have filezilla, I guess I have to learn how to use it. thanks. I’m so new at this but you have been a great help.
one more question. Once I copy to clipboard and put it in my notepad to save it what do I do next? on filezilla? I’m missing a step and I’m not sure what it is.
Thank you so much. I’ve been trying to find out what I’m not doing for the last 2 days.
I did it, I did it. Thank you so much.
Glad you were able to get it uploaded!
Step 1. Copy & paste the code above into your favorite text editor and save the file as number.php and make sure you upload the file to http://www.numerologist.com/.
How do I upload the above file?
I didn’t it once and then it didn’t work again. and what about banner links can I use this cloaking for banner links
Woww…Great tools Pat,
Just want to ensure, does this work for Amazon too?
Yes, it will work for Amazon. I’d be careful though – Amazon and eBay are notoriously nasty an take a very hard line against cloaking or cookie stuffing. Not sure why, but that’s the way it is!
Great program,
When I cloak my link and click on my link text the page that comes up says there’s a error. Is there a step I missing? I new at this and just learning.
Thanks Pat!
Kathy,
Do you have a link I can test?
Pat;
I haven’t yet published my site, because I do not want to put any of my affiliate links on the open market.
I am a Noob but realize that I do not want my links to show up for any potential theft, so I need a cloaker of some kind.
Ran across you somehow during a search, and glad I did.
How do I get you’re program and what is the cost and how do I install it.
this is the last step in the process for me, before I publish.
please help.
Thank you so very much, in advance.
Michael J (Jim) Cofran
Jim,
Thanks for your interest. The link cloaker tool is free to use, and would typically be used on static sites or sites that don’t run WordPress. If you’re running WordPress, then a plugin like Pretty Link Lite would be an excellent alternative. If you’re cloaking on a minisite or non WordPress site, then the link cloaker tool has full instruction on how to generate your links and add them to your site. Hope that helps!
I market many products by e-mail. At some point in the near future, I will secure an Aweber account, but for now my personal emails have more than enough leads to do a direct mailing campaign without it. Am I able to cloak links and place them in a regular email format? I’m a total newbie when it comes to html anything! Is it even possible to add code to a regular email?
Yes, you can cloak links and put those links in your email. However, you’ll still need the page or script that actually does the rerouting of the cloaked link to the affiliate link, so you’ll need a hosting account or some place to upload those files before sending out emails!
Once you’ve got your link cloaked, just copy and paste the pretty link into the email you’ll be sending out, and it should be clickable for your recipients. Hope that helps!
Pat:
Thanks for the prompt answer.
Am using WP3.2.1 as a static page for my affiliate links.
Are you saying I cannot use the UALC for my page ??
Oh Man! what a bummer if so.
This is the only one I have found that does it all, and readily to boot.
I realize I’m only a NOOB, but even to me it is a no brainer, that this is the best for what I hope to accomplish.
Well. in that case I try something simpler, and probably not as good.
Thanks again. ( this does not mean I won’t keep coming back for advice )
Jim
No, you can use the link cloaker if you’re using WordPress, but I’d just suggest leveraging a good WordPress plugin to cloak if you’re using WP. I use Pretty Link Lite on my blogs, and I’ll cloak with Ultimate Link Cloaker on static mini sites
very time I upload and try the cloaked address it doesn’t work. I’m doing just what you said do but I can’t send customers to my affiliate. Do you know what I’m doing wrong?
I’d need to test the link. What’s the URL of the page where you’re cloaking the link?
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