Redirection WordPress Plugins

You have learned how to create a HTML and PHP redirection links. Both methods are a bit hard, for newbie particularly, and a waste of time actually.

Because the easiest way to redirect pages, if you run a self-hosted wordpress-powered blog, is by installing redirection plugins. You can make redirection activities automatic and fun!

The main goal of this redirection is to hide an affiliate links from Google’s eyes so that your blog is not considered as a paid-linking blog which in turn will get banned, or at least will get your Google PR drops down.

Plugins Data

Name of plugins: Redirection Plugins
Author: John Godley
Download: Download the plugins here (zip file).

Features:

* Supports both WordPress-based and Apache-based redirections
* 404 error monitoring – captures a log of 404 errors and allows you to easily map these to 301 redirects
* RSS feed for 404 errors
* Custom ‘pass-through’ redirections allowing you to pass a URL through to another page, file, or website.
* Full logs for all redirected URLs
* Create redirections based upon a URL, browser, referring site, or login status
* Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes
* Full regular expression support
* Fully localized
* Export all redirections to CSV, XML, or Apache .htaccess files
* Import Apache .htacces files

How to use it to hide / redirect affiliate links

Suppose I want to make a redirection of my CO.CC affiliate program (http://www.co.cc/?id=147405), here’s what I’ll do:

1. Once the plugins is activated, go to -> Tools -> Redirection. The plugins admin is there.
2. In the Add New Redirection, there’s two boxes you have to fill out:
Box 1: Source URL. It’s the redirection link. It’s a virtual link, so it does NOT exist. You can make whatever links you want.
Example: http://fatihsyuhud.com/go/co.cc

Box 2: Target URL. It’s the real affiliate links
Example: http://www.co.cc/?id=147405

3. Click “Add Redirection”.
4. Done. Now you have redirection links to show in your blog’s sidebar i.e. http://fatihsyuhud.com/go/cc.cc. See the example in my own sidebar.

See the picture

Picture 1: Two columns you have to fill out for pages redirection

Picture 2: Sample how to fill out the two columns