What Is Affiliate Link Cloaking?

Published by Chris | Filed under Self SEO | April 8th, 2007

With all the hype on Affiliate Marketing, many bloggers and website owners are making a decent living selling affiliate products and services. But there are also many people on the Internet robbing site owners of their affiliate sales that are rightfully theirs.

Affiliate link cloaker can help disguise your affiliate links. Why would want to disguise your affiliate links? You ask. As you already read in the first paragraph, the link cloaker protects your sales from thieves. Its also disguises your links from the search engines robots when you website is be optimized.

Now there are lots of software that can cloak you affiliate link for you, but I’m a sucker for freeness and I hope you share the same sentiments. There is a free way to cloak your affiliate links.

Where it reads http://YourAffiliateLinkHere.com - replace this with your affiliate link. It has it twice in the code, so make sure you replace both of them with your affiliate link.

Then paste this code into one of your already running websites and name the file. Upload the page and that’s it. Your new affiliate link should now look like this.
For example: http://www.MyWebsiteAddress.com/books.html

(books.html would be the name of your file. Book is just an example…you can choose whatever name you like)

That’s it, your very own cheap/free but effective affiliate link cloaker.