You can use your own link engine to hide outgoing links such as affiliate links. For example, if you wanted to direct visitors to Amazon when they visit yourblog.com/go/books, you could take the following steps:

1. Login to your site via FTP, and create a folder called go in your webroot (e.g. /www or /public_html or /httpdocs folder).
2. Create a file containing lines like this:
   Redirect /go/keyword http://www.destination-url.com/affiliate-code
   Name this file .htaccess (note the leading period) and upload it to the new go directory. Note: Windows will not let you name a file .htaccess on your PC. Give it another name and rename it to .htaccess after uploading.
3. Now we have to make WordPress ignore the “go” folder, or else it will redirect users into a WordPress error page. Open your main .htaccess file (the one in your webroot directory) and look for this line:
   # END WordPress
   Add this line after it:
   RewriteRule ^go/.*$ - [PT]
4. Add more outgoing link keywords and URLs by editing the .htaccess file in your /go directory whenever you want.

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