Comments on: How To Cloak Affiliate Links & Click Tracking With PHP

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:46:14 +0000

Thanks for the great script. I’m going to do a cashback shopping site. I am also wondering how to track whether a member (registered user) actually makes a purchase after clicking my affiliate link. Because I plan to give some cash back to members when they make a purchase through my link.

I am wondering how to track who makes a purchase at what time? You don’t need to give the script, I only need to know ‘how’.

Thank you so much!

By: Thaya

Thaya — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:49:37 +0000

Wow, this will really help with my affiliate links. Thanks a lot. I have searched the internet for this sort of information for so long. Thank you.

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:28:28 +0000

I gotta thank you for this nifty piece of code. I didn’t know what I was missing, the cloaking works great. I haven’t gotten into the tracking part of it yet, that piece went straight over my head. I have no clue about mysql and the like maybe at a later date when I pick up more knowledge but the cloaking went without a hitch.

By: Rian Brooklyn

Rian Brooklyn — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:17:53 +0000

Cool Terry thanks, I’ll have to check this out.

I’ve used all types of cloaking/redirecting too: Gotrythis, jump.php, Ninja Link Cloaker…etc

Gotrythis of course is paid, but its kind of a pain across multiple domains. And its a little time consuming to set up links.

The best of both worlds would be a cloaker/redirect script that would not only track clicks, but allow for dynamic tracking ids to “see” what search terms the user used to get to your site and also allow you to direct link while cloaking. xtreme conversions is a good tracking solution, but it doesnt work well with cloaks. Maybe by adding your solution it would work…?

By: aeiouy

aeiouy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:56:53 +0000

I have been doing something similar. I actually have a javascript redirector that I use and have the url as a vairable. So it is not entirely cloaked, but then I also use a php redirect to get to the javascript in some cases.

Regardless, this has me considering some changes to how I am redirecting some of my urls.

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:26:11 +0000

Very, very nice Patrick, THANK YOU! I’ve updated the above post to point to the count display code, works great .

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:09:49 +0000

I put together a follow up piece to illustrate a quick solution for displaying the click count. Enjoy!