What is URL Masking?

[omilma]

Hey..
Guys As far as i know URL Masking means that the visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your target website, however the URL in their browser address bar will stay the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your company sees the unique domain name and not the target URL

[jessicarobin]

URL Masking is the process of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of the user's browser in favor of another.

[Sindin]

Omilma,

You got it right and this is particularly best for redirecting to vendor sites and so on for affiliate purposes.

[Wiz]

Yep you're right. Thanks for teaching us about the URL masking, do keep such informative posts coming.

[comparepandauk]

Informative post. In simple words URL Masking means hiding the original URL(domain).

[vaidhegipatel]

Mask or hides URL or domain name can be helpful in many cases; mask affiliate links, track the clicks and conversions, hide your long domain and track the clicks.

[WAHM South Africa]

Also called a link cloaker. You can also use a free service like bit.ly or tiny url to cloak links. If running wordpress, I found using a free plugin called Thirsty Affiliates works well on link cloaking.

[larrypaul]

URL Masking is hidding the original domain name of the website from URL Field to the browser.

[AlbernAlbern]

In short wording we can say "It means that the visitors to the sector address will be sent to your location website, however the URL in their web browser address bar will stay the same".

[thatiand]

There are quite a few ways to mask a URL like Iframe or /pagename.php.

[thatiand]

There are also some ways to programmatically change the page being pulled in to resolve relative URLs of links and external files.

[nathanmiller99]

Yes it is the true definition of the URL masking.

[rick12]

"Domain masking or URL masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another name. There are many ways to do this, including the following examples."

[erowman]

Nice, this is good to know. Looking into affiliate schemes at the moment.

[Kathy50]

Url like "Rootdomain/dlfjlfjlfjdskljdfgimmeallyourmoneyalajdlkaf2131032 klfjfdjldsjf" is not that much intersting or clear to go through ,Very few people would click on it or may be. this is because it doesn't gives you any specific address,where you would be taken.
URL masking is therefore when you create a prettier, cleaner “vanity URL” that makes your links more clickable. Some people use "bit.ly," which has tracking purposes, or the WordPress Plugin "Pretty Link".