Few days back I told you guys that I have taken blogging as full time profession. That’s one of the reason target affiliate sales once in a while to make a sustainable amount of monthly income.
Usually affiliate links look pretty ugly, if you look at my previous post on Wp-clear wordpress themes , check the download link, you will notice the most ugliest link.
Though for me such link make sense, but for newbie’s or non techy people such links look like spam.
So I was searching for any free wordpress plugin which will help me to hide my affiliate links, without editing .htaccess.
There are many tutorials which describe how anyone can hack .htaccess to edit affiliate link. Luckily I got my hands on easiest and simple wordpress plugin. Gocodes.
GoCodes wordpress plugins, is simple wordpress plugin which hide your affiliate link and make them look like a simple link.
How to get started with Gocodes wordpress plugin?
Download the Gocodes wordpress plugin
Unzip and upload the wordpress plugin to your wordpress plugins folder
Activate the plugin from plugin folder under wordpress plugin option.
Navigate to Settings >Gocodes Settings and change the default /go/ code to some thing like recommended.
Now navigate to Tools> Gocodes
Redirect Key: Name of the product or your own imaginative name
Example : Dreamhost
Target URL : URL on which the user will be redirected
Example : http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?467570/signup|SML50
Final output : http://www.shoutmeloud.com/recommended/Dreamhost/
The steps are pretty simple and help you to make uglier link look pretty.
Though if you don’t want to use this trick, you can simply take the help of URL compressor websites.
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I’ve been using this for a while and totally love it
Although I regret that after the visitor gets forwarded, the actual URL is shown on the browser lol
i just searching for it .. i notified this plugin in your blog only thx
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I was using smarty for many days on my blog and now shifted to this cool plugin. It is really worth having on a blog. Thanks buddy for sharing it.
had seen about such links on other blogs but didnt knew how they used to generate, as am a newbie with many such things. Am using it now, Thanx for sharing
Thanks gocodes plugin is good one but it doesnt generate links automatically. I am happily using Affiliate Hide Plugin (http://corpocrat.com/2009/12/23/affiliate-hide/)