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Javascript Re-Direct

2008-06-10T10:41:00.000-07:00

The function is same as META refresh redirect,Just create a webpage on your website and name it something simple like abc.html. When your targeted visitor click on the URL (http://www.yourweb.com/abc.html) they will be re-directed to another webpage or website that you designate. This is especially useful for promoting an affiliate link.

It work at most web page,and It work well in blogger too,Just copy the code below in to the "Page Element"and it will redirect your visitor to the URL that you wish to.

Copy this script below the "head" section:

<head>
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript"

</script>
</head>

Personally I think both META refresh redirect and Javascript Re-Direct are very simple way to cloak the affiliate link but it not good for Blogger .Just use URL Shortening Service to cloak the affiliate link.

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The collections of Free URL Shortening Service

2008-04-06T12:08:00.001-07:00

There are a number of ways to cloak affiliate links.Shorter the long url is one of the easiest ways is to use to cloaking link .Below listed some of the greatest URL Shortening Service to choose from.

URL Shortening Service (Tested)

tinyURL--The most well-known of URL Shortening Service. More than 71 million has create a tiny URLand using the service. Over 1.9 billion hits/month.The short URLs it creates will never ever expire.

URLit.in --was created as a free service to shorten long URLs, and may only be used for actual URLs. The service offers with: SPAM free guarantee, tagging, location info, Twitter send, visualization, RSS feeds on matching tags, profile storage, API, email gateway.

b65.us - With password-protect and freedom to customized your URLs.Private redirects can be created if you specify a private password. Before a user is taken to the destination, they will need a password.

CanURL - Another simple use URL Shortening Service.Canurl.com automatically filters out spam and harmful links! keep the web safe.

C-O.IN - Free and Ad free URL redirection service (also known as URL forwarding) allowing anyone with a website to register a free subdomain and redirect it to their real URL! Do you have an existing URL like:www.yourISP.com/users/yourname/index.html? Turn it into something shorter and more memorable like:

Cuturls - Simple interface ..promise will create a shorter URL that will not break when emailed.And never expires!

Decent URL - Free to use and providing more service with premium account for USD 7.00 in where we can edit our URLs, view click counts, and automatically detect broken links.

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DigBig - With a dashboard to view the number of clicks on your URLs after you register with their service.

durl -The durl.us API enables the integration of durl.us url shortening directly into your custom application. The durl.us API provides a simple interface that you can query with results being returned in XML.

notlong--Take long URL and give you back a shorter URL without requiring registration. Since these sites forward a click from one link to another, With URL forwarders and Path Forwarding:.check the statistics of the URL, no registration required.

DwarfURL - Password-protect the URL you created. You can also see the list of the URLs you have created with Your DwarfURL History.

easyURL - Create a quick "url widget" that redirects through easyURL without having to take the step to actually visit easyURL to "shorten"your destination.

Snipurl--Also known as Snurl and Snipr, SnipURL is a URL shortening service with a social twist. You can sign up for an account which lets you edit URLs, subscribe to the RSS feeds of your latest Snips, password protect them, and snip multiple URLs at once.

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Choosing the one with dashboard control will be good for us to edit our cloaking links.They're hundred of URL shortening service to choose from.I will add more from time to time.Keep updated.

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Description of attributes for Link Cloaking

2008-04-06T12:00:00.001-07:00

What is the meaning of the terms use like,Direct Redirect?Path Forwarding?etc..

Description of attributes Link Cloaking:

Default Length - Based on an evaluation of the algorithm and/or an experimental sampling of test cases. Selecting a private option or selecting your own nickname may make the URL longer or shorter, depending on the site.

Expiration - How soon will the short URL expire and no longer link to your long URL? If a service expires their short URLs, they can be re-used by other people to send folks to other long URLs. If a service is listed as "Never" expiring, this is not a promise that your short URL will last forever, but just an indication that it looks like the service maintainers do not purposefully expire URLs..
Private - By default, are the short URLs created private (only available to the site administrators and not the general public)? If not, then your shortened URLs are posted on a public page, or anybody can easily guess them.
Direct Redirect - Is the browser sent directly to your long URL? "No" means that a transition page is shown to the user with the service's branding.
Statistics - Does the service provide statistics for you to see how many times users have clicked your short URL?
Editing - Can you change the long URL associated with a specific short URL you created?
Batch - Is there an easy interface for creating short URLs for a list of long URLs without doing them individually one at a time?
Subdomain - Can the resulting short URL be an entire subdomain name with no path? For example, does it support http://nickname.domain.com in addition to http://domain.com/nickname ?
Path Forwarding - Can you append paths to the short URL prefix and have these appended to the long URL? For example, if http://myname.notlong.com redirects to http://longurl.com/users/~mylonguser, then http://myname.notlong.com/apath redirects to http://longurl.com/users/~mylonguser/apath
Handles Short - Can you generate a new URL even though the resulting URL is longer than the original? This can be handy when you want to standardize your URLs or get statistics on clickthroughs.
Non-deterministic - Does it generate new, unique short URLs even when you enter the same original URL multiple times? This is good if you don't want somebody else to find out if a URL has already been made short. This is also important if you want statistics on clicks for a short URL you distribute.
URL Checking - Does the web site check the URL you enter to make sure it is in a valid format and that it returns a valid page?
Perl API - Is there a Perl module which allows you to generate shorter URLs using this service? Known APIs are available on CPAN in Iain Truskett's WWW::Shorten package.
IRC bot - Is there a bot on IRC that can automatically generate shorter URLs using this service?
BBS/Forum - Does the service provide a message posting system where the community can discuss issues related to URL shortening?
Languages: - In what languages is the service available?

Depending on your use, other factors to consider might include:

Reliability - Will the service be up when your users are clicking on your short URLs?
Performance - How many concurrent users can be clicking on short URLs and still get redirected quickly to your target?
Longevity - How long will the service remember your URL? How long will the service be in business?
Fine Print - Does the service have any restrictions on its use which may disagree with you?

More:
Consider choosing a URL Shortening Service to cloak your url.

Content sort by title

2008-03-28T13:07:00.000-07:00

My blog content sort by title and date.Hit on the title/date to sort accordingly.

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Why use cloaked affiliate links?

2008-03-21T19:57:00.000-07:00

It's happened where the affiliate links getting stolen and losing up to 40% of affiliate commission. All these attempts prey on people to instill in their minds that they may not be getting what they deserve. I know that commission stealing is a problem, and affiliate networks like Clickbank have taken steps to plug the leaks in their systems.But it's wiser to take extra step tp prevent this kind of risk.

What is link hijacking.
Adware and spyware programs that are unknowingly installed on our computer( you never know when you have picked up a spyware program) - It rewrite affiliate links on web pages you visit. This iswhat we known as link hijacking.

you visitors click one of the affiliate links to learn more from your website. If your visitor have spyware on his computer, it can literally intercept the link and replace your affiliate id with the affiliate id of whoever wrote the spyware program.

What people says:
I Use cloaked affiliate links or redirect pages a lot not because I'm afraid of having commission deliberately stolen from right under my nose, but because I'm annoyed at the length and ugliness of affiliate URL's.

META refresh redirect--The HTML Re-Direct

2008-03-21T19:27:00.000-07:00

Before I tell you what is META refresh redirect(HTML Re-Direct),It's advise that this method shouldn't use in blogger.It's work in Blogger but Blogger team most likely will get your blog disable because they think you spammed.The disabling is a result of their automated classification system marking it as spam.Anyway You can sent a request to the Blogger team to Restore access of the blog if you think it's not a spam blog.

What is META refresh redirect and how it work?
It works like this: when visitors click on a Web page that contains a META refresh tag inside the HEAD section, they're sent to a different page without actually clicking on a link. This is called page side redirection.

This method will redirect the url to another web page. We have to setup the redirected site by adding a tag into our html script .

The META refresh tag tells the browser to automatically request another page from the server after a certain number of seconds. This is also called "redirecting" because you're sending the visitor to a page other than they one they requested.

Beware !!
The META refresh is an easy way to make sure that visitors go to the page we wish to but search engine spiders usually don't spend a lot of time evaluating them. Often, they'll leave as soon as they encounter a refresh attribute because it's a spammer favorite.

How to place the code

The HTML Re-Direct
Add this tag below the "head"section

This META tag will send a visitor to the new URL after 2 seconds. You can set the timing to 0 seconds and have it jump immediately or set it for 30 seconds or longer.

Similar method by using Javascript Re-Direct .

The url shortening service

2008-03-21T19:26:00.000-07:00

There are a number of ways to cloak affiliate links.
One of the easiest ways is to use a url shortening service.

The collections of Free URL Shortening Service

An Example

Turn this URL:
http://www.affiliate.com/buy-RVLSWCUSZ-Wii/dp/B0009VXBAQ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2807968-1014504?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1175580663&sr=8-1

The downside of using such service is that if the "re-directer"Stop their service.You will have a number of broken links and might effect your reputation and your page rage as well.But,Not too worry about that.Million people are using it. Most of the time,The "re-directer rarely runaway".And it totally free and easy.
into this nice, tiny URL:
http://zurl.ws/1

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Idea of cloaking

2008-03-21T19:07:00.000-07:00

The whole idea of cloaking or redirecting has much to do with people's nature. To be more specific, it's all about psychology. It's interesting that people are hesitant to click affiliate links and tend to cut off the ugly looking part in an affiliate link before pasting it to the browser. Now Let's compare the following two links: http://www.make-you-rich.com/copy.asp?storefront=weishengwu And http://www.make-you-rich.com Which one looks more clickable? The answer is pretty clear.

You can replace long URL's with cloaked links or short, server-side redirects so that people won't feel pitched and won't be turned off by links that are obviously affiliate links. There are several ways to create clean links that you can use to direct buyers to your sales pages. Read through the description below and see which one meets your needs and fall within your skill level.

1. Directory Redirect
Connect to your web server and create a properly named directory. Then create an index.html and put a redirect code in it.

2. Sub-domain Redirect
Most web hosting providers allow you to have several sub-domains. Simply log on to the control panel, set up your sub-domain and then set up the redirection.

3. Redirect Script
Several scripts are available out there that you can install on your web page to protect and redirect your links. You may need to put the code between the head section.

4. .htaccess
This is only recommended for advanced users because it involves modifying the .htaccess file on your server. Here's how to do it. Create a properly named directory. Put a file called .htaccess by creating it using a text editor. This file should contain the Redirect command, the location of the directory you want redirected relative to the root of your site and the full URL of the location you want that request sent to.

You can find all the above mentioned codes for free. Do your research and then implement it to see how it works. I have put a link for downloading a free e-book containing these codes on my blog.

Besides creating redirect pages, you can cloak your affiliate links using commercial software programs or services. Listed below are popular ones on the market.

5. Software Programs:
Affiliate Link Cloaker and LinkGuardII. These two programs take your long, ugly link and mask it with a redirect link.

6. Services:
NameStick turns long, ugly affiliate or website links and turn them into a short, clean links (cloaked or not cloaked). It allows you to set up domain forwarding and unlimited sub-domains. NameStick forwarding domains and sub-domains are bookmarkable, and you can customize the title visitors see in their bookmark listings. I use NameStick service to create many neat and clean affiliate links to make my business look bigger.

If you're serious about your business, you need to take action right away. Redirect or cloak your links to make them more clickable. You may be surprised by how a little effort on your part can make a big difference to your online business.

By:Wayne Wu
http://www.ecominfozone.com.
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How to redirect a bunch of links.

2008-03-21T18:45:00.000-07:00

A link bunch is combining a bunch of links for you. When you find several links on the web ,you can use linkbunch to put those links in the list and sent it out one short.

With LinkBunch, you take all those links and put them into one "bunch", which is just one single link--the utl is like a TinyURL or SnipURL link- instead of giving out bunch of url . Saves space, and saves a few bytes of bandwidth! :)

LinkBunch is easy to use.Just paste links into the box on the homepage--one link on each line--and click 'Bunch' to bunch them together.

You can also use the Firefox extension that will let you create a bunch of all your open tabs in the browser.

There is a Twitter bot in the works, but it hasn't been finished yet.

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