Top 5 WordPress Plugins to Hide Affiliate Links and Link Cloaking

If you are a blogger or an affiliate marketer than you may be annoyed with the ugly looking affiliate links. I don’t need to discuss the importance of affiliate links here but i want to discuss a problem related to affiliate links and that is link hijacking. In Link hijacking a virus or spyware is injected into your system that will rewrite affiliate links on affiliate pages when you visit them.

This means that if you are buying a web-hosting via my affiliate link in order to give me the commission but if your computer have this bad software installed than it will rewrite the affiliate link at the time of browsing and hence commission will be given to the hacker not me. So is this the end of world for affiliate marketers or does it have any solution to this problem.

Link Cloaking.

The solution to Link hijacking is Link Cloaking. You may be wondering how this can prevent viruses to hack affiliate links. First of all we have to understand how Link hijacking works. Link hijacking code detect affiliate links if they are not belongs to your website means external links. Suppose if i have HostGator web-hositng link on my website Link hijack code will easily detect it because my website is Internet-khazana.com and it totally differs from Hostgator.com link.

Now Link cloaking plugin will give you the option to hide the affiliate link and convert it into your website internal link. Now link hijack code will recognize it as internal link and hence will not change the link parameters. This is very easy solution to the very dangerous situation because you do all the hard work but you will never earn a single penny and all the money goes to the hacker.

Link Cloaking plugins for WordPress.

Now you know the importance of link cloaking plugins its time to choose one and install. Below are top 5 WordPress plugins to hide affiliate links.

1. Pretty Link.

It is the best link cloaking plugin used by more than 400K bloggers around the world. Can be used to shrink and hide your affiliate links. The beauty of this plugin is that it gives you the option to edit your permalink so you can create your own permalink rather than the default one like Recommend, Refer or which ever you like. It has nofollow option which is good for SEO and 307 temporary and 301 permanent link options. This plugin is so easy to use, just copy paste the affiliate link, give it a name used for permalinks and click on create button and you are done.

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2. GoCodes.

Gocodes is a simple yet powerful link shortener and redirection plugin for WordPress. Mostly used for Podcasting and to hide affiliate links. Very simple to use and all the option available are on the same page.

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3. Simple URLs.

This is a plugin that is used by many and its a complete link management system that will fulfill all your needs. Link shorten process is very simple, all you have to do is a give the affiliate link URL, name it and it will create a permalink for you. The problem with this plugin is that you cannot change the default permalink structure.

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4. Link Hopper.

Another simple but great plugin to redirect all your out going links. Setup links in just one click and if you want to change the link than just open the plugin settings page, change it and save it.

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5. WP-LinkChanger.

Very small and light affiliate link hiding plugin for WordPress used by many. This plugin automatically changes all your outgoing links to internal links and hence you don’t have to do it manually.

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Download Free TwentyTenFive Project and bring HTML5 to WordPress

HTML5(Hyper Text Markup Language) is a computer language which designs and forms different content for web. Way back in 1990 when HTML was produced in order to display content in your browser no one at that time had thought that at one day this language will be so popular and effective. HTML5 is the 5th generation of this language and initiated by Opera software. The main purpose of introducing this technology is to fully support the latest media requirements of your content without need to install any third party plugin or software like Adobe Flash etc. This unique ability of HTML5 makes it ideal for cross platforms and for smart gadgets too.

Why Use HTML5?

HTML5 is already released and fully compatible with all the latest browsers including Internet Explorer 6+. It can convert your ordinary blog or website into stunning, user friendly and content rich website without the need of using too many graphics which of course slows down your website loading time. To find out more about the HTML5 revolution, check out the HTML5 official site.

What is TwentyTenFive Project:

TwentyTenFive is a Project to embed HTML5 support in WordPress so that we can fully take advantage of the new and cool features of this language. Its basically an upgrade for the default WordPress theme TwentyTen. You don’t have to pay for it as its totally free of cost. Very easy to create things and you can take full advantage from this future language for browsers in WordPress too.

How can i use HTML5 in WordPress.

Installing HTML5 support in WordPress is very easy. Just download the TwentyTenFive project zip file from here and upload this file into Appearance > Themes > Install Themes > Upload and activate the theme.

You can also use TwentyTenFive project as a framework for your own HTML5 themes which means you are just few minutes away from creating stunning beautiful templates or themes.

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Remove Branding Logo and Customize Facebook Fan Page

Facebook Fan page is a nice way to stay in touch with your blog fans and its also easier for your fans to stay update to your blog. Facebook fan page is also very helpful bringing free traffic towards your blog. Lots of websites now a days getting up-to 90% traffic from Facebook. So Facebook fan page is must for you if you want to survive in this era of competition. If you are a newbie blogger and have just started your blog than its time for you to create your Facebook fan page now and also customize to the look and feel of your blog.

How to Create Facebook Fan Page

Creating Facebook fan page for your blog is very easy. Just visit Facebook Fan-page URL here and select Brand or Product as your choice. After that choose website from the drop down menu and click I agree to Facebook Pages Terms check box. Fill-in other details about your blog and your page will be running instantly.

Customize the Landing Page

Second quick thing which you need to do in order to attract and convince your Facebook fan page visitor is to like your page. If a visitors just land on the default Wall of your fan page he or she might not click on like button which means that you loose a precious visitor or customer. So the thing is that you have to create a welcome page and than redirect your fan page visitor to the welcome page. Now your welcome page should be attractive and must convince visitors to click like button. Read my article on How to Create a Custom Facebook Landing Page for your blog here.

Remove Branding Logo and Header

Now its time to create a Fan box for your blog so that your blog visitors can easily click the like button. Now by default Facebook fan page box is very ugly, big in size and contains all sorts of unnecessary information. So its essential for you to customize the fan box to the look and feel of your blog so that it blends with your blog design. Also we will remove the header part as well as the branding logo located at the end of the box to make it look more pretty and professional. Just copy paste the code into your blog theme and update the file. Remember to change the Facebook page URL with your own page URL.

<style type=”text/css”>
.facebookOuter {
background-color:#f0f9eb;
width:300px;
padding:0px 0 0px 0px;
height:185px;
border:3px solid #599d32;
}
.facebookInner {
height:185px;
overflow:hidden;
}
</style>
<div>
<div>
<div
data-width=”295″ data-height=”230″
data-href=”http://www.facebook.com/internet.khazana”
data-border-color=”#ffffff” data-show-faces=”true”
data-stream=”false” data-header=”false”>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id=”fb-root”></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));
</script>

You can change the background color and border color of this fan box to the colors of your blog theme by changing the values in the line number 03 and 20. Also if you want to show more fans faces or don’t want to show any face than there is a true false option in this code. You can change the width and height as well so use this code on your blog and tell me about your experiences.
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