calicochris - 7:28 pm on Aug 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

I am developing a new site with affiliate links - my first dabbling in this stuff. I would like to simply obscure the affiliate links - not for users as it is clear in the copy that they will be redirected, but to hide the affiliate numbers. I don't want a 2nd cloaked site behind all of that .. just a simple cloaking of the affiliate link if such a thing is possible.

I need to implement this in a hurry as I'm already getting traffic for some of the long tail key words and thought that I had a little bit longer to mess around with this stuff to try and understand it before the site really start attracting traffic.

So, as I see this, I have two options:

- php script and redirect
<?php
header("Location:http://www.example.com") ;
?>
And point the affiliate links to a redirect page?

or

- an affiliate link cloaking and click tracking 3rd party host.

Which direction would be best considering I need to do this quickly and I don't have an idea what I'm doing?

What can go wrong?

[edited by: jatar_k at 3:49 pm (utc) on Aug. 14, 2007]
[edit reason] please use example.com [/edit]