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I do the same thing as SuiteJ with my directories so I figured I would help out and post up the code.

Inside of the index.php file you are going to want to incase the following line of code inside of PHP tags.

header (‘Location: http://www.yourlinkhere.com‘);

That’s it! I think when SuiteJ tried to post the code inside of PHP tags WordPress removed everything.

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Yan

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Funny Joe laughs at the”goto”, etc. I actually add the /go directory manually just so it’s “organized” on my server.

Anyway. I create a directory. Let’s say it was “hostgator”. So, the URL would be suitej.com/hostgator if I wanted it to be.
Inside the hostgator dir that I created, I have an index.php file with one line of code that looks like this:

Then, I just make a duplicate anytime I wanna quickly make a new aff URL/link, and change that affiliate link in the one line of code.

I can call it what I want, and put it wherever I want. It’s manual, but still only takes like 55 seconds to do.

Hope that made sense. It’s pretty late over here. lol
Cheers!
Jay

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Just make sure that you don’t have anything that redirects the page to the same page.

So in your example that you gave, just take out…

if ($m == “”) {$link = “http://www.yourlinkhere.com”;}

As an example, if you had an $m variable set to…

if ($m == “google”) {$link = “http://www.google.com”;}

By adding the code into your main index.php you could just link to it by the following example…

http://www.theathomecouple.com?m=google

Can’t get much shorter then that

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And it makes it much easier to manage if something needs to be changed.

@Jarret – thanks for stopping by. I agree, I actually wouldn’t mind seeing some sort of cross comparison of ctr depending on one cloaking script versus another..

I’m sure only dorks like you, me, and joe would actually make time out to read a post like that!

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I’m the same way as Joe in that I try to make my cloaked links look like a normal URL to a subdirectory. I am not sure how much of an effect that has compared to using /recommends/ or /goto/ or any other form though.