Title: [Plugin: Pretty Link Lite] Parameter forwarding?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Pretty Link Lite] Parameter forwarding?

 *  Resolved [djoseph05](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djoseph05/)
 * (@djoseph05)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-pretty-link-lite-parameter-forwarding/)
 * Hi,
 * I just bought Pretty Link Pro yesterday, and never tried the Lite first; it was
   the first time I looked at the program and bought it right away when I saw that
   it’s been what I’ve been looking for. It looks great!
 * I’m a Commission Junction affiliate, and when I grab a link from their site it
   has the following checkoffs:
    Encrypt link? Yes or No Set link to open a new 
   browser window? Yes or No Hide tracking code in link? Yes or No SID _____ (Fill
   in if you want to give it a code for your purposes)
 * I am not sure how I should answer the questions when using Pretty Link Pro. I
   am fairly new to affiliate marketing also, so I want to be careful not to break
   any rules (especially on CJ). I also don’t want to upset or slow down Google 
   by incorrect links.
 * Can you please help me get started with PLP and suggest how I should answer the
   above? I don’t know if by saying Yes to encrypt the link, if this would be double
   encrypting in PLP. Same with hiding the tracking code.
 * Also, can you please explain what ‘Parameter forwarding’ means and give me a 
   little example of how you use it? I think it relates to my question above and
   would like to understand it so I know how to use it in PLP.
 * Thank you for your help,
 * dJoseph
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/)

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 *  Plugin Author [cartpauj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cartpauj/)
 * (@cartpauj)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-pretty-link-lite-parameter-forwarding/#post-3000299)
 * Encrypt link? Yes or No – Sure – This one probably won’t make a huge difference,
   Pretty Link Pro, won’t double encrypt it, Pretty Link Pro just creates a copy
   of it, using your domain name instead of CJ’s. But when the user clicks on the
   Pretty Link version they are redirected to the CJ version. This can be helpful
   for SEO if you use the 301 type redirect on your Pretty Links. “Cloaking will
   hide the CJ url from the user completely, but may be against CJ’s TOS”.
 * Set link to open a new browser window? Yes or No – No, you can do this in Pretty
   Link Pro instead.
 * Hide tracking code in link? Yes or No – Yes, this will allow you to track your
   hits on CJ’s website.
 * SID _____ (Fill in if you want to give it a code for your purposes) – Unless 
   you’re doing something advanced, just leave this blank.
 * **What is Parameter Forwarding?** – Parameters are key/value pairs of information
   that you can pass along to a website in the URL. A key is an identifier, and 
   the value is the actual data that key refers to. Take the following URL for example:
   [http://somesite.com/index.php?action=track&affiliate=john&id=000123](http://somesite.com/index.php?action=track&affiliate=john&id=000123).
   In that URL, there are three keys, “action”, “affiliate”, and “id”. Each one 
   of them holds a value, “track”, “john”, and “000123”. Now when that link is visited,
   somesite.com knows exactly what to do. Perhaps it stores a hit in the database
   for the affiliate named “john” for product “00123” which he is promoting. This
   is just one of countless uses for parameters.
 * **Should I use Parameter Forwarding?** – Chances are No! Parameter forwarding
   is for advanced users only who need to pass extra information along with their
   Pretty Links.
 *  Thread Starter [djoseph05](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djoseph05/)
 * (@djoseph05)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-pretty-link-lite-parameter-forwarding/#post-3000301)
 * Thanks! You covered that very well.

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 * [parameter forwarding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parameter-forwarding/)

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 * Last reply from: [djoseph05](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djoseph05/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-pretty-link-lite-parameter-forwarding/#post-3000301)
 * Status: resolved