Redirection Cloak

A cape redirect keeps your pretty URL visible in the visitor’s address bar while displaying the target page below. From the visitor’s perspective, they appear to be on yoursite.com/cool-link even though the content comes from somewhere else entirely.

Remarque : Cette fonctionnalité est disponible avec les formules « Débutant », « Marketer » et « Super Affiliate ». Si vous utilisez Pretty Links Lite, vous pouvez passez à un forfait Pretty Links supérieur pour l'utiliser.

Comment ça marche

When you set a link’s redirect type to Cloîtrée, Pretty Links serves a small wrapper page that loads your target URL inside an iframe. The visitor sees:

• Your pretty URL in the address bar (it doesn’t change to the target URL);
• The full content of the target page filling the browser window;
• Your site’s title and favicon, not the target’s.

It’s like a one-way mirror: the visitor gets the destination experience, but the surface they’re “on” is yours.

When to Use Cloaking

• Affiliate links — Branded experience without exposing your affiliate URL;
• Long, ugly destinations — Surface a clean URL while hiding messy parameters;
• Partner content — Embed external resources under your domain;
• Marketing campaigns — Keep visitors anchored on your branded URL.

Automatic Fallback to 302

Many sites — including most major ones (Google, Facebook, Twitter, banks, payment processors) — block themselves from being loaded inside an iframe. They do this with security headers like X-Frame-Options ou Content-Security-Policy.

When a target site blocks framing, the cloak iframe would otherwise show a blank page or an error. To prevent that, Pretty Links automatically falls back to a regular 302 redirect when it detects the target can’t be framed.

That means visitors always end up on the target page — they only won’t see your pretty URL in the address bar for sites that refuse framing.

You don’t have to configure anything for this fallback to work. It happens automatically.

Points à retenir

• Mobile experience — Iframes can behave awkwardly on small screens, especially with sites that aren’t responsive. Test your cloaked links on a phone before relying on them for mobile audiences;
• RÉFÉRENCEMENT — Cloaked pages don’t pass SEO equity. If SEO matters, use a Types de redirection : 301, 302 et 307 instead;
• Affiliate program rules — Some affiliate networks prohibit cloaking, masking, or iframing their landing pages. Check your program’s terms before using cloak on affiliate URLs;
• HTTPS mismatches — If your site is HTTPS and the target is HTTP, browsers will refuse to load the iframe. Use HTTPS targets whenever possible.

Setting It Up

1. Edit the link you want to cloak.
2. Dans le cadre de la Redirect type dropdown, select Cloîtrée.
3. Cliquez sur Mise à jour.

Test the link by clicking it from a logged-out browser session (or an incognito window). You should see your pretty URL in the address bar with the target site’s content below.

If you instead see a 302 redirect to the target, that means the target site blocks framing and Pretty Links has fallen back automatically. Pick a different target or use a different redirect type.

Combinaison avec d'autres fonctionnalités

Cloaked links work with:

• Modes de suivi des clics — Cloaked clicks are tracked just like regular redirects;
• Ciblage — Different visitors can be cloaked to different destinations;
• Rotation — Cloak the rotation, not the individual variants;
• Codes QR — Scanned codes use the same cloaking behavior.

Cloak does not combine with Pretty Bar — they’re alternative ways to brand the experience around the target page. Pick one per link.