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How to hide your affiliate links – part 2
August 7th, 2009 by Andreas from Xavier Media®In part one of this series I showed you how to mask your Clickbank affiliate hoplinks using Clickbanks built in link masking. This is however not an optimal solution since the links still say clickbank.net in the URL. Therefore we're going to have a look at Javascripts to mask links instead.If you've never worked with Javascript before this may seem extremely technical, but we'll start with an easy example.
The simple Javascript redirection
This code works great if you only have one link per page you need to protect. Add this code somewhere between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags in your code:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!–function Redirect(){
window.location = "http://www.sampleaddress.com";
}
// –>
</SCRIPT>
Just fill in the URL you want your visitor redirected to instead of http://www.sampleaddress.com and you're almost ready to test the script. Now you need to create a link somewhere in your page. The link need to look like this:
<A HREF="javascript:Redirect();">Test link</A>
As you can see we're using some code instead of filling in the URL to the page in the code above. This is because when this link is clicked on by the visitor the script will be executed redirecting the visitor to http://www.sampleaddress.com or whatever link you filled in instead.
The advantage with this code is that the user can't see where the link is going by just holding the mouse pointer over the link. In the browsers status bar they will just see this:
In next part of this series I will show you how to setup a Javascript for multiple links and also how to move the script to a separate file to hide the links even more.
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