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Affiliate link cloaking and link redirect using your Insty account

How to create a link cloaking utility using your Insty hosting account.  


 



Iframe Linking - (hiding the destination URL from the user)

This is a more advanced link cloaking option, where you can setup your own URL in your account and hide the destination from the end user.
** This behavior is different than a normal redirect. Using this redirect will NOT change the browser address for the destination.
URL frame forwarding can affect search engine results, so use it carefully.

To set up URL frame forwarding, use an inline frame (<iframe> element) to load the external content. Additionally, you should define some CSS styling rules to ensure the borders and margins are set correctly for the page. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Using the file manager icon in your Insty hosting account to create and open the index.html file.
  2. Copy the following code and then paste it into the index.html file:
    <html>
    
    <head>
        <title>Title</title>
    </head>
    
    <style>
    body {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
    }
    body, iframe { 
        width: 100%;
        height: 100%;
    }
    iframe {
        border: 0;
    }
    </style>
    
    <body>
        <iframe src="http://www.example.com"/>
    </body>
    
    </html>
    
  3. In the code, replace www.example.com with the site that you want to load, and replace Title with the title that you want for the page.
  4. Save your changes to the index.html file.
  5. Use your web browser to visit your site's domain. The address bar should display your domain name, yet the page content should display the site you specified in step 3.


Done for you URL forwarding - Link Cloaking

If you would like us to create the iFrame URL forwarded link, you can contact support and we can create this link for a one time charge of $5.

When submitting your request, please include:
- the affiliate destination link
- the URL where you would like this link created in your account.

Click here to submit a new URL iframe link service request
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