Using PHP to Redirect Affiliate Links

In the last post, I talked about using .htaccess to hide and redirect your affiliate links.  In this post I want to give you another example of a free way that you can do this only this time using php instead of .htaccess.

I’m sure you’ve seen this method used over and over on make money online blogs and probably never noticed it, or if you have, you haven’t implemented it on your site or blog even though it’s extremely easy to do!  This post will show you exactly how to go about redirecting affiliate links or any other type of link using php.  This allows you to link to an affiliate offer multiple times yet if you ever need to change the offer, you’d only have to open up one file and change the url in that file.

If you hovered over a link using this method, you’d most likely see a URL that looks like this…

http://www.clickconsultants.com/goto/wordze.php
or
http://www.clickconsultants.com/recommend/wordze.php

So let’s explain how this works.  The first thing you need to do is log into the FTP of your site and create a folder.  You can give this folder the name goto, recommend, or whatever else you may feel works well for your site.

The next step is to open up notepad or any other simple text editor and add the following code to it.

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.youraffiliateurl.com/' ) ;
?>

You would of course replace www.youraffiliateurl.com with the actual site or affiliate offer that you want.  Next, you simply save this file using whatever name you want that would describe it.  For example, I could link to Wordze and save the file as wordze.php

Next, upload the file into the folder your created above.  You know have a link which would look something like this.

http://www.clickconsultants.com/goto/wordze.php

You can then use this link in all your articles, landing pages, etc and if you ever need to change the affiliate url, you would simply open up the wordze.php file and change the link, thus, allowing you to change the link across your entire site instantly.

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