HugePedlar’s Blog

In the world of affiliate marketing it’s inevitable that you’ll want to cloak your links to some extent.

‘Naked’ affiliate links at best look ugly, and at worst suspicious, so displaying a friendly url to your visitors is desirable.

Compare these two links, for example. Which looks better:

http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2747150-10378494

or

http://mediawebsearch.com/go/godaddy

Now it’s easy enough to create a redirect. You just upload a php or html file to your website with a bit of code including the destination url. Give the file an appropriate name and send your traffic through that instead of straight to the advertiser.

The problem with creating and uploading a file each time you want to make a new redirect is it’s tedious. You need to break out your text editor and your FTP program.

I don’t know about you, but I’m far too lazy for that shit.

So I built a tool to automate it all.

Now I just load a page in my browser which displays a form. I type in a name for my link, put the affiliate url in there, and choose the type of redirect (php or meta - one redirects transparently, the latter overwrites the referrer).

Then the script works it magic and generates a nice clean link like in the example above.

No need to edit files, create directories or use FTP. And I can do it from any PC.

And now so can you. I’m offering the script for free download.

Instructions are included. All you need to do is make sure you have PHP5 enabled.

Here’s the link:

http://scripts.hugepedlar.com/ezredirector.zip

Enjoy!

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