How To Create And Cloak Affiliate Links With Wordpress

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what is that party people my name is Daryl and today I'm gonna be showing you all how you can kind of convert your affiliate links and clean them up and also cloak them as well now those of you who are in the WordPress community you might be kind of venturing off looking at affiliate marketing you might want to offer services for your clients such as hosting services and you've noticed that people have this really nice their domain - product and when someone clicks on that link it takes up to the their affiliate or their web page or wherever you want to redirect them to so right here I have Darrell Wilson com - Debbie now I'm an affiliate for elegant themes and when I type in that right there you can see that it takes them directly here to someone purchases the product I would make a commission so I'm gonna go ahead and show you all how we can do this on your website using WordPress in fact we're gonna be using the same exact plug-in and system that I use for this as well now there's various companies out there there's commission junction there's Clickbank there's ShareASale and there's tons of stuff you can promote just simply grab one and pick one and yeah a product that you trust them alright don't describe any product you know alright so let's go ahead and go to my wordpress dashboard I'll be showing you how you can create an affiliate link and I'll be using an affiliate link right here from my personal accounts on share sale alright so over here in our plugins to click on add new and the one that I personally use on all my feelings is pretty links so right here we have pretty links and it should be popping up really quickly and there you go so short links buy pretty links the best WordPress link tracking plugin now you can also use other ones I mean there's thirsty affiliates but I haven't had I don't like it I just I like pretty Langston last that's what we're doing today are using pretty lame Thanks alright so go ahead and activate that and install it activate it and once you do that you'll see on the bottom left right here you have pretty links so right here you can click on or for a new beginners you did you click on add a new link right there alright before I go over here and show you this really quick if you click on pretty links right here you'll to see all your all your affiliate program so yeah I have quite a bit I mean I have you know 150 affiliate links so I do have a lot and it actually show you what you're promoting it'll show you the clicks when it was created and also it'll show you the exact link that that is targeted right there so over here I'll click on add a pretty link all right let's go ahead and make one here now right here we have redirection so for those of you who are using the free version right here it says temporary temporary and then permanent and right here there's pretty bar and cloaked now the one that I personally use is if you're not sure about the family program you might change the permalink later just use the temporary that's basically saying I want to kind of use this right now to see where at and then later on if it's if it's a good affiliate program or if it's something that I want to keep you would go ahead and take it and put it as permanent I have most of my links on permanent but for those of you who are brand-new and you're not really sure you might want to change the link later you can always do temporary all right so that's basically what that option is cloaked right here that's only for pro users so if you want to cloak the link that would basically be the option to cloak your link now the big difference is is that it has a lot to do with like nofollow and do follow links so you know if you want to have a nofollow cloaked obviously is one of them and you know I've heard there's rumors about this but Google doesn't really like affiliate links so cloaking them would actually help you for SEO on your website but that's a myth I can't really say that's a hundred percent factual but anyways I'm gonna go to 301 permanence and right here we have target URL so right here I'm gonna go into my affiliate program and I'm gonna go ahead and we're gonna go ahead and grab a grab an affiliate link right here we're gonna go ahead and say ok WP rockin alright and I'll click on get links so whatever program you're joining whatever one is joining or whatever one you're using every dashboards gonna be different obviously so right here I'm gonna go to get HTML code and then right here select URL only now remember for this right here you want to click on you want your URL only so if someone offers you like a banner with like a - div or - a ref you don't want that you just want the link right here alright so this is the link right here and I'll take this link and I'll go ahead and put it back right here so right now I'm saying this is where I want people to go this is where people will land now what do you want to call this pretty link well this right here is WP rocket so maybe something like you know - WP rocket something like that something that relates to the products right here you can give it a title and you can also give it notes as well where you can you know just learn more about the product or you want to leave something for yourself over here under the Advanced Options I gotta be very honest guys I don't really use it too much you could add the nofollow perimeter which basically says that it's not it's it adds the nofollow link to it where you know engines won't really pick it up so that's basically what that is perimeter following I don't think many as many of you guys are gonna go ahead and use that and then tracking of course you want to leave it on tracking Pro options a lot of you don't have the pro options so if you do decide to get the Pro options they do have documentation for it but generally this is all you need you don't need to do any of this other stuff you know but you don't even need to go to the Advanced Options in fact I've been using there's pretty links for maybe two years now and I recently upgraded to the pro just because I felt bad like I wasn't using their pro version and you know I used it all the time and I'm like dude I don't even have the pro version it's been like two years like so anyways once you're done with that you'll just click on creates and that's it your link is created so I already created my link actually so right here I'll just do something like I'll just make I'll just make one up really quick I can always delete it later alright now here's the link right here so if I copy this or go to and click on it you will then see it's going to redirect them to whatever page or whatever affiliate program I'm part of so that's probably the best way to create the links with WordPress and again it gives you statistics so right here you can kind of see that it has the clicks when it was created and then it has the the the link right there and guys you always want to kind of go back and see if your feelings are working like I'm just gonna double click on this one right here let's just see if this one's working it's a good idea to test your feelings here and there because sometimes the feelings can break sometimes the people that that are making the affiliate program they might change the page and they might change the URL and if that happens unfortunately you're gonna lose out a lot of money you know you lose out on a lot of money so here's another one and you know just see if they're working or not all right they're all working everything's good to go all right so uh go have fun you know there's a there's commission junction there's share sale there's a lot of other affiliate programs that you can join or you can promote products I obviously promote tons so you know most of the people I teach WordPress they're kind of learning WordPress and they're learning how to like you know what affiliate programs are now and they kind of wanna get a part of it this is what I use and what I recommend to everyone so I hope this video was helpful let me know in the comments if you want to know anything else about affiliate programs or what's the best one or anything that you've come across if you want to go ahead and let me know alright alright so I will see you all in the next video