Why You Should Cloak Your Links

I did believe in cloaking links a while ago, but I now strongly advise that you don't. If you do want to cloak you links Click Bank has a forwarding script that works, and I have tested that is does work.
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Have you ever wondered if someone could steel your commissions when using your affiliate URL link? The answer is a yes. There are URL thieves that are looking to steal from you. It is a fact up to 40% of affiliate commissions are up for grabs by these thieves. The danger is real when it comes to your affiliate commission being stolen. There is an answer all you need to do is cloak your affiliate URL links. This process will take you some time to prevent the link thieves from stealing your commissions but the 10 to 20 minutes is well worth it. In the process of cloaking your affiliate URLs you can give a more professional look to your website and save your commissions. As an affiliate you have probably received an affiliate URL to your program that looks something like this:

http://splend2443.richjerk.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=RICHJERK

This link can look strange and uninviting to your potential customer. This type of link coding also makes it easy for a link thief to change and redirect it to their affiliate link. Changing it can make it safe and appealing at the same time.

"this will appear in the address bar http://www.onlineprofitmarketing.com/Project_X"

or put a name for the link instead the url

"This will look better on your site as a link Rich Jerk

This will protect your affiliate commissions because your affiliate URL is protected. Also it looks better to your customer because it shows a link to your website and the product. Link looks like it belongs to you. This can protect commissions and increase click through rates. This type of link is also easier to track. Also if your customers book link your site it is even better because the link will be yours not that of your affiliate program. So how do you create this affiliate cloaking URL?

Here are the instructions:

Go and connect to your web server using your FTP client or another file management program. Now go and create a directory that properly describes the product you are affiliated with. In this example lets say your product is called Rich_Jerk so you would create a directory in your site and then name it the product name. The third step is create a single index.html, index.htm, index.php, index.htmls, or many other web page formats. If you don't have HTML editor then you can use Note Pad, which comes with all windows OS. The forth step is to Edit the index file so that it contains this exact code:

(
="Your affiliate URL goes here">
)

To make your page and the affiliate page look like they go together I recommend you copy the affiliate page's title or the product name. To see this just click on your affiliate link and copy the phrase on the top of your browser's window. You can also use the script from click bank, thats what I would use.

Don't forget to make sure your affiliate URL works before you publish it. Now you need to upload index.html file in your new directory for example http://www.onlineprofitmarketing.com/Rich_Jerk and now you are finished. So this little bit of work your affiliate links are now cloaked, no URL thieves can take your commissions and your links look more professional to your consumers. It is that easy and it is free . Like I said, I do not support cloaking links anymore. I updated this article to make a little more sense and to add info about the click back script.

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