Simmi Ahuja

Ozi External Links is a lightweight external link and affiliate link management plugin designed to help site owners control outbound links without unnecessary complexity or performance overhead.
Unmanaged external links can silently leak SEO authority or create affiliate compliance risks. This plugin provides clear, guided controls to manage those links responsibly while keeping everything fully transparent and local to your WordPress site.
All functionality runs entirely on your own server. 
No external APIs, no tracking, and no third-party services.
<h3>How it helps your site</h3>
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<li>Protects SEO by managing outbound link attributes</li>
<li>Helps meet Google’s affiliate disclosure recommendations</li>
<li>Creates clean, branded redirect links you control</li>
<li>Provides lightweight click insights without analytics bloat</li>
<li>Keeps full ownership of your data</li>
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<h3>Features</h3>
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External Link Controls 
Automatically apply <code>target="_blank"</code> and <code>rel="nofollow"</code> to external links.
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Affiliate Compliance Option 
Optionally add <code>rel="sponsored"</code> to outbound affiliate links.
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Trusted Domain Whitelist 
Exclude specific domains (partners, tools, or sub-domains) from external link rules.
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Optional External Link Indicator 
Add a subtle arrow icon to external links so users know when they are leaving your site.
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Built-in Link Cloaking 
Create clean redirect URLs such as <code>/go/product</code> without creating pages or rewrite rules.
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Click Tracking 
View how many times each cloaked link is used, including last click time.
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Labels & Notes 
Add usage notes to cloaked links to track where and why they are used.
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<h3>Design philosophy</h3>
Ozi External Links is a lightweight plugin that helps you manage external and affiliate links safely and responsibly.
It allows you to control outbound link behaviour, apply SEO-friendly attributes, and create clean redirect links without affecting site performance.
All processing happens locally on your WordPress site. 
No external APIs, no tracking, and no third-party services.

Ozi External Links

Lightweight, SEO-safe external link and affiliate link management for WordPress.

Harsh Agrawal

Are you a blogger looking for a simplest plugin for managing your affiliate links?
Meet ShoutCodes.
An intelligent Affiliate link management plugin that is easy to use & is SEO friendly.
Features of ShoutCodes Lite version:
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<li>Manage affiliate links</li>
<li>Link Cloaking</li>
<li>Create short link under your brand name</li>
<li>Check analytics (Stats of every link that is clicked)</li>
<li>Set your desired direction slug. Default is /go/</li>
<li>Make all links Nofollow with one click</li>
<li>Search engine friendly affiliate links</li>
<li>Quickly edit old expired affiliate links with new links</li>
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ShoutCodes Plugin is tested & developed with utmost care.
How to use ShoutCodes link management plugin?
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In the above video you could understand how this plugin works. We have showed you two examples:
1) From popular Amazon site 
2) Creating short link using a domain name
Who you Should use ShoutCodes WordPress plugin?
ShoutCodes plugin is for every WordPress user who is monetizing their blog using Affiliate marketing or needs to create a branded short URL. The plugin is developed by keeping SEO in mind. According to Matt Cutts (Google’s webspam head), affiliate links should have nofollow tag.
ShoutCodes makes it easier for making all cloaked link nofollow with a single click.
Another reason that compelled us to develop ShoutCodes is “An easy to use link cloaking WordPress plugin”. 
We wanted to have a plugin that makes it easier for managing all of our links easy & from a single page. This is what ShoutCodes enables & it’s one of the easiest link management plugin that is friendly for affiliate marketer at every level.
ShoutCodes Lite is a free plugin. We will launch a Pro version in the future with more features.
What to expect in the future version?
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<li>Select the redirection status code. Default is 301. </li>
<li>Option to import settings from existing Link cloaking links</li>
<li>Option to A/B test Links with Anchor text.</li>
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Note: If you enjoy this plugin, you can thank us by reviewing the plugin.

ShoutCodes Lite

The fastest & powerful affiliate link management plugin. Create branded cloaked URL for your domain name.

Ozi External Links vs ShoutCodes Lite