“URL Masking”
Masking is a very useful feature when setting up a re-direct.
Essentially, it will “mask” or hide, the destination web address in your browser window,
and keep your original domain in its place. It’s a little hard for me to explain, so let me
show you instead.
I’m going to set up a redirect for this address: www.live5star.com. It’s going to forward
anyone who goes to that website straight to my replicated site:
www.magnetic.magneticsponsoringonline.com
What I want you to notice is that the new replicated site address is now visible at the top
of my browser window:
Now I’ll log back into GoDaddy.com and select the “Masking” option in the Domain
Forwarding menu.
What this masking does, is “hide” the destination web address from the surfer. Instead, it
will keep the original domain address in its place. (This is easier to show you than to
describe).
When I set up my masking option in Godaddy.com I told the system to use
www.Live5Star.com as the title. This means that www.Live5Star.com will now appear in
the address bar at the top of my visitor’s browser instead of
www.magnetic.magneticsponsoringonline.com
Now that masking has been put in place, let’s try it out. I’m going to type
www.Live5Star.com into my browser.
It’s going to redirect me to www.magnetic.magneticsponsoringonline.com, but as you’ll
notice in the graphic below, my browser still says www.Live5Star.com in the address bar.
CAUTION!: DO NOT USE MASKING ON AFFILIATE LINKS.
MASKING with throw off the tracking system used by affiliate links and it will cause you
to lose up to 50% of your sales!
Use Re-directs ONLY.
“URL Masking”
Masking is a very useful feature when setting up a re-direct.
Essentially, it will “mask” or hide, the destination web address in your browser window,
and keep your original domain in its place. It’s a little hard for me to explain, so let me
show you instead.
I’m going to set up a redirect for this address: www.live5star.com. It’s going to forward
anyone who goes to that website straight to my replicated site:
www.magnetic.magneticsponsoringonline.com
What I want you to notice is that the new replicated site address is now visible at the top
of my browser window:
Now I’ll log back into GoDaddy.com and select the “Masking” option in the Domain
Forwarding menu.
What this masking does, is “hide” the destination web address from the surfer. Instead, it
will keep the original domain address in its place. (This is easier to show you than to
describe).
When I set up my masking option in Godaddy.com I told the system to use
www.Live5Star.com as the title. This means that www.Live5Star.com will now appear in
the address bar at the top of my visitor’s browser instead of
www.magnetic.magneticsponsoringonline.com
Now that masking has been put in place, let’s try it out. I’m going to type
www.Live5Star.com into my browser.
It’s going to redirect me to www.magnetic.magneticsponsoringonline.com, but as you’ll
notice in the graphic below, my browser still says www.Live5Star.com in the address bar.
CAUTION!: DO NOT USE MASKING ON AFFILIATE LINKS.
MASKING with throw off the tracking system used by affiliate links and it will cause you
to lose up to 50% of your sales!
Use Re-directs ONLY.
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