Hiding your referral links
Today someone wanted to know what hosting i use so i thought i would give them my referral url. It turned out this forum software would not even let me post it. I tried tinyurl but it was also blocked. Some admins go through great lengths trying to stop you from posting referral links, which i never quite understood. I run a webmaster forum myself and never had a problem with people posting an odd referral link now and then as long as they were not spamming. Anyhow, i set up a quick tinyurl clone. Its quite useful for masking your referral urls and such. Even though the urls you get are not that short. Feel free to use the tool bellow.
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March 25th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Thanks for a nice free tool.
I was also looking for some tinyurl alternative.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
You are welcome
March 25th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I to ran a huge online forum based around a FPS. I never had a problem with referral links, but some web authors do. I guess they feel that people are trying to push traffic away instead of towards.
Nice tool!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Nice one. It actually does the trick. The fact that it is free makes it all the more highly recommended.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Hi SEO.
Excuse my ignorance, I am not too sure why this is a benefit. Can you explain this tool to me as I love tools.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
There are a number of reasons. Sometimes you have a long referral url and you might want to post something shorter. Some referral links are being blocked by admins so you will not be able to post them. Some users don’t like referral links so they will not click. Some affiliates also like to stay anonymous and keep their referral link hidden for various reasons.