Affiliate link cloaking

[mobilegambler]

what is the best way for SEO to affiliate link cloaking?
i use wordpress on my new site, i know this can be done by using plugins or editing the htaccess file.
which is the most relevant way?

 

[Frank]

thirsty link plugin to keep it simple

 

[mobilegambler]

thanks for reply, finally i resolved with pretty link

 

[Rick Perry]

Prettylink is good, but it is not well optimized :-( But this is problem of many other plugins, try P3 profiler (https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/) and you´ll see..

 

[3joker]

I just use .htaccess. It's really easy and you don't have to rely on any plugins. I don't see any disadvantages at all.

Example on what to put in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Options -Indexes

redirect 301 /go/examplecasino http://example.affiliate/link.com

This will also redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.

 

[mobilegambler]

this is what i need,
pretty link allow 302 and 307 redirection but this way, editing .htaccess i can redirect with 301 code which is more liked by Google. right?
thanks

 

[TravG]

Yes, I would definitely use your htaccess file to redirect links. I have used many methods (including plugins) but changed them all to this at least a year ago and is definitely the best route.