Why You Should Hide Your Affiliate URL
If you are new or experienced in affiliate marketing, you should know how to hide your affiliate url’s. This process is also known as link cloaking, and is a vital aspect of succeeding in affiliate marketing today. The instance of stolen commissions, while rarely reported, is a common occurrence - particularly on ClickBank, and the only way to protect from it is to implement some form of affiliate link cloaking to hide your affiliate URL from would be commission thieves.
Once upon a time affiliate marketing was a relatively new concept online. Competition was low, and those that were involved found it relatively easy to make profits. In 2008 there are over 100,000 ClickBank affiliate marketers and growing every day. With this competition and profits being made, dodgy affiliate’s have devised means to over-write an affiliates hoplink with their own- stealing the commission at point of sale.
Furthermore often merchant’s employ legitimate yet sneaky tactics where they lure your customer’s into another offer before purchase, which in turn result’s in the commission of the sale going to the merchant. For these reasons it has become vital to hide your affiliate URL.
Affiliate cloaking software or an affiliate cloaking script is the most efficient way to cloak or hide an affiliate URL. Personally I believe a cloaking script is a more effective way to hide an affiliate URL as it will allow for dynamic replacement of all your affiliate URL’s making it simpler and faster to implement your cloaked URL’s.
There are most certainly free methods of cloaking available; however these methods have been proven to be less reliable as the code is relatively straight forward to crack.
Whichever form of affiliate cloaking you utilise to hide affiliate URL’s make sure that you track results and monitor regularly to ensure your affiliate links are registering and working properly.
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