Simple Link Cloaker Plugin For Wordpress

Here’s another great Wordpress plugin you should use if you want to easily cloak your affiliate links on your blog. With the Simple Link Cloaker plugin, you can easily manage your cloaked affiliate links on your plugins page of your Wordpress dashboard. The reason why this plugin is so valuable is because you of the flexibility to change the affiliate link that’s attached to the cloaked url. This is useful if lets say the affiliate program you’re promoting going to end, then you can change the affiliate link to a different program. This means that all your hard work in article marketing, forum posts, and blog entries will not go to waste. Here’s a snippet of the intructions, etc from the plugin site:

“In general, this is what you do:

Write your post, highlight your anchor (link) text, then click the ‘link’ button (assuming you’re using the Visual Editor).

In the Link URL box, enter the link address without your blog URL, starting with a slash.

Add your other link goodies like ‘target’ or ‘class’, click Insert.

Finish and publish your post.

Go to Settings -> Simple Link Cloaker.

In the Add New section, enter the Link URL you just used into the left box.

Enter your affiliate link in the right box.

Click “Add Cloaked Links”.

Done.

Example: suppose we want to link to a Clickbank product, and we want to use the URL http://ilikewordpress.com/go/i-like-this-product, and the Clickbank hoplink is http://myclickbank.twitterlist.clickbank.com. In the left-hand box, we’d enter <strong>/go/i-like-this-product</strong>. Notice there is no ‘http://’ or other URL parts in this box, just the part of the URL <strong>after</strong> your regular blog address. Then in the right box we’d type the Clickbank hoplink. Click the “Add Cloaked Links” button, and the redirect code will be added to your .htaccess file.”