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How to hide your affiliate links in Wordpress Blogs

October 4th, 2009 Sourish 5 comments

Photoxpress_1113324 If you use long and ugly affiliate links, there is a better way to hide them to a shortened URL of your choice.The best part is these affiliate links looks as if the part of a site itself.Many times users dont want to click your affiliate links or some trick it by removing your affiliate id.Though its unethical and everybody should avoid doing this since the effort taken by the publisher goes in waste if he does not earn the credit for providing you the useful information about the product that you decide to purchase.

If you have a long URL like :

mydomain.com/2008/01/03/my-post-with-a-long-url

Using Gocodes shortens it to a easy to read:

mydomain.com/go/mycoolpost.

GoCodes let’s you create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your Wordpress Admin. The plugin is thus very useful for masking affiliate links.GoCodes is a free plugin and that is the beauty of wordpress blogs where you have access to hundresds of free plugins from contributors from around the world.

Installation :

Upload the entire gocode plugin folder directory to your Wordpress blog’s plugins folder situated at (/wp-content/plugins/).

  • Activate the plugin on the “Plugins” tab of the administration panel.
  • To manage your redirects, open your Wordpress admin, and go to the Tools > GoCodes wordpress-plugins
  • Enter your affiliate link as shown below.wordpress-plugins2
  • Track your affiliate links and clicks.

Note :

You may choose the URL redirections to be NOFOLLOW and NOINDEX

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How to use Ciao Surveys Gift Certificates in Indiatimes Shopping

October 1st, 2009 Sourish 3 comments

Ciao Surveys a part of the Greenfield Online group is a world leader in paid online surveys.Ciao Surveys offers registered members the opportunity to participate in online surveys to tell companies what you expect from them and about their products.This influence their decisions by answering paid surveys on travel, hobbies, websites, food, any many other topics of general interest.By completing the surveys you can earn gift vouchers and prizes.

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Many are stuck with “How to Use the Gift certificate”.I will give you a useful tutorial to buy stuff from Indiatimes shopping.

  1. First type shopping.indiatimes.com in your address bar
  2. Now select register to get a buyers account and start shopping. indiatimes_shopping1
  3. After filling all credentials you can now sign in your account.
  4. Choose categories from the menu bar.Select your category. indiatimes_shopping2
  5. Select a product of your choice and click Buy Now option.indiatimes_shopping3
  6. This will take you to your shopping cart where you can proceed to checkout.indiatimes_shopping4
  7. In the checkout window Enter Gift Certificate Number as shown in the image.indiatimes_shopping5
  8. Review and Confirm.

You can see the details of the purchase in the My Account tab.

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