Jun
22
How to workaround MSPLinks on Myspace
Filed Under Myspace
If you are reading this article, you might have saved yourself $20 - $30. Some people out there are charging $30 to get a way to workaround the MSPLinks provided by Myspace. To keep all readers up to pace, let me briefly explain what is Myspace, and why a lot of marketers would love to get rid of those MSPLinks. According to Wikipedia, MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally.
Below are the facts I got from Alexa Internet, MySpace is currently the world’s sixth most popular English-language website and the sixth most popular website in any language, and the third most popular website in the United States, though it has topped the chart on various weeks. The service has gradually gained more popularity than similar websites to achieve nearly 80% of visits to online social networking websites.It has become an increasingly influential part of contemporary popular culture, especially in English speaking countries.
It’s fact that Myspace is getting more and more popular, and people are looking for ways to benefit from it. One of the ways is using Myspace for their advertising campaign. This is how they do it: Instead of putting real information about the user, people are starting to put text or image links on their profiles. Some others put advertising links on their comments as well. These links will either drive traffic to the intended website or direct you to a salespage where the sender will get sales commission whenever the visitor buy something from the website. This trend is growing and that’s why Myspace started to take action and filtered all links on Myspace. This is where MSPLinks come in. Instead of letting you put a direct link to other websites, Myspace will take all the links, put them into MSPLinks, filters and replaces all links that include affiliate id with Myspace.com. That’s why all your links will be replaced by MSPLinks once you hit the save button
I have found a way to workaround this MSPLinks. I tried it and it works. Let me share the secret with you 
1. Create a html file by using Notepad
2. Copy and paste this code into your page: (You might need to change a couple of things to suit your needs)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;URL=Your destination url with your affiliate ID on it”> –> The line you need to pay attention to
<title>Whatever title you want to put here</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Let me explain a bit about the code:
content = “0″ means the page will redirect your visitor to the destination immediately.
URL = your destination URL with your affiliate ID
3. Save the html file and call whatever you want. For example: thesecret.html
4. Upload the file to your www folder on server.
5. Next whenever you need to put a link to your merchant, you can direct it to thesecret.html. When the visitors got to this page, the page will automatically direct it to your merchant website.
This methods work for me, and it should work for you too. If you have any question, come to my website http://www.mochtardjoko.com and post a comment on my post. Mochtar Djoko has been making money through the internet for the past five years. He specializes in selling on ebay and doing internet marketing. You can learn more about selling on ebay and internet marketing on http://www.mochtardjoko.com
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This doesn’t show how to change the msplinks link to a direct link. Do you know how to do that?
Hi there,
Thanks for the comment. No, there is no method to change the msplinks to a direct link for now, but the links are not filtered in messages and blog post comments last I checked.
I have the html code for an image which has a link attached to it. It is a banner to my yuwie profile. How would I adapt my code to your msplinks workaround with my images which have links in them or would I adapt your code to mine?
This small banner for example (you may need to see the html source):
Also, when I modified your code around mine I see the code in my MySpace profile.