Link Cloaking: Cloak and Dagger in Internet Advertising - 0 views

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  #1 Boysen Cheng on 27 Dec 13

   

  'Cloak and dagger' sounds like a joke, but it's truer than you may like: if you don't cloak your affiliate links, you may get stabbed in the rear. Basically were to advertise this link: http://www.traffichoopla.com/cgi-bin/update.cgi/13196/ it would be very easy for one to just cut it down after http://www.traffichoopla.com
  
  It'd not necessarily need to be a malicious act, perhaps just laziness on your part, but if this were a program where I obtained paid per-click on my affiliate link..I would not get paid. You would receive money, if you slipped your own internet username in the link. If I gained a commission on a purchase, I'd not get it and you might.
  
  There is another reason to hide your links. You're selling your link all over the web, if you're half-the affiliate that you ought to be. But affiliate programs come and go, and so does our curiosity about any particular program, as we all know. What are the results if you drop a program? You've to scramble to get all the places on the web where your defunct link is living, so you can transform it or eliminate it. In the event people fancy to learn further on high quality nickvassilev.com, there are many online libraries you might investigate. Odds are they will not all be found.
  
  You can use one of two strategies to cloak a link that involve creating html files, or you can use one of several companies that cloak links for you. The advantages to producing html files on your own domain is that when you drop an affiliate program you just need to revise them, you get links back-to your domain, and you get page-views that improve your Alexa position.
  
  You can go here to get the two kinds of html code to choose from: http://www.selfseo.com/story-13929.php There's also a listing there of hiding services if you decide to go that way.
  
  Irrespective of how you get it done, hiding your affiliate links will protect your affiliate earnings and save yourself you time and trouble in the long term.

   

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