How To Cloak Your Affiliate Link

Daniel — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:42:49 +0000

How To Cloak Your Affiliate Link

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Cloaking your affiliate link has become important for many reasons. The most important reason for me is Google and the other search engines.

Google has changed their minds of what they like and what they don't like. And one thing they don't like anymore are affiliate links. It just seems that they don't like it when other's than Google itself are making money online and so they started to ban sites with affiliate links on them.

An example for that are the BANS (build a niche site) and PHPBay powered websites which are built around the ebay affiliate network. Brian Johnson over at netmarketingcourse.net has written a post and created a great video about "Google De Indexing BANS, PHPBay Sites".

So this is reason enough for me to only display cloaked links since the most traffic I get to all my sites is coming from Google. And I'm sure, that this is also a good reason for you to start cloaking your affiliate links if you haven't already.

Here are some different ways to cloak your affiliate link
There are many ways you can cloak your affiliate links. One of the easiest way in my opinion is to create an HMTL page to redirect your visitors to the affiliate site. Below is the code you can use:

Your Title

You can copy that code into your notepad and save it as an .html file. You have to replace www.affiliateurl.com with your affiliate link and change the title. After you saved the file upload it to your web hosting account. Now you can link to that file and your visitors are getting redirected to the merchant's site without showing Google that you used an affiliate link.

The same thing can be done using php instead of HTML. The code for that is:

Copy that code into your notepad and save it as a .php file. Then do the steps described above.

Now when you have a blog and promote many affiliate products that can give some headaches because you would have to create many files. An easier way to cloak links with your blog is by using a link cloaking plugin. I use pretty links for that and I really love it. Click here to get the plugin yourself - it's free!

Another way to cloak your affiliate link is by using an online service like budurl.com. I've to apologize that I can't give you any more information about that because I don't use it and I never used one before. But as I heard it has some great features like tracking the clicks and so on. Visit budurl.com and learn more about it.

I hope this post was helpful and showed you the importance and some ways to cloak your affiliate links. If you have any questions about cloaking affiliate links just leave a comment and I'll answer them.

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