There are good reasons to cloak affiliate links. For one, they are too difficult for people to remember or type in to a search engine to find your site. For another, hackers can use them to steal your commissions … or potential customers will just use the vendor’s URL minus your affiliate addition.
One can cloak links in a variety of ways.
1) Of course, one can use various link shorteners. The shortened link will not be in a neat and memorable form of your choosing, but it will be cloaked. Among shorteners are bit.ly (which can be set up for tracking clicks), tinyurl.com, budurl.com, snipurl.com, cli.gs, fb.me, and goo.gl most recently.
2) Create a file in your cpanel named something you like (presumably something to do with the product or service) and put the affiliate link in the html code of the file.
3) Set up a unique domain name and forward it to your affiliate link.
4) PHP Header Redirects.
Use the code: <?php header( ‘Location: http://www.yourtargetdomain.com/new_page.html’ ) ;?>
5) Use Acloaker.com according to the following video, which assumes the use of ftp software wuch as FileZilla.
Tags: link cloaking
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