subject: Enhance Your Business Effectiveness With Affiliate Link Cloaking [print this page] Enhance Your Business Effectiveness With Affiliate Link Cloaking
Affiliate marketing can be fun and very profitable. These
strategies include selling someone's product or services and
receiving a commission based on the sale.
There are effective and informative affiliate sites but the
URL's can be long and increase the possibility of someone
ripping you off. So here are some suggestions for affiliate
link cloaking.
The URL for an affiliate site can be very long and contain
information on your status as an affiliate. If you promote
your affiliate site and include the traditional URL, someone
can see this information and then decide to circumvent your
efforts by replacing the affiliate information with their
own affiliate information.
This will mean that you can easily lose affiliate sales
because the credit can be awarded to someone else. In order
to avoid these kinds of situations, affiliate link cloakers
were developed.
An affiliate link cloaker hides much of the information
contained in an affiliate link. There are many websites
which allows you to enter an affiliate link and then
generates a shortened URL which hides much of this
information and enables someone to click on it to get
redirected to your affiliate site.
The cloaked URL is much shorter and it is virtually
impossible to determine what kind of affiliate information
is linked to this site. In many cases the potential
customer no longer even realizes that the website is an
affiliate link.
If you want to apply affiliate link cloaking, there are many
options. If you do a Google search under "affiliate link
cloaking", you will find many websites which allow you to
enter an affiliate link and then have it converted. Or you
can create a small routine which resides on your webpage and
has a command which redirects a click on that program to your
affiliate page.
I do not have specific recommendations as many of these
sites and services work quite well. To see what kind of
results and performance you can achieve just experiment a
little with some of the more popular sites.
In this way you can hide your affiliate links and achieve
the best results without worrying about someone replacing
your affiliate information with their own.
You can also achieve the best results from the efforts you
put into promotion. Otherwise you risk diluting your
