Hiding your affiliate links (also known as cloaking) will save you a lot of money over time, because there are people out there who are going to rob you out of your commissions.There is another aspect to hiding your affiliate link, you look more professional by doing so.Very few people are going to click on affiliate links that are long, ugly and filled with numbers and obscure code.You simply must hide your affiliate link to make more money online.
This short video shows how to hide affiliate links by using a simple php code.
If all this sounds too difficult, there is also a free tool out there that you can use to hide your affiliate links.It is called MyLinkGuard and is really simple and easy to use.Grab MyLinkGuard for free at http://www.mylinkguard.com
Do you hide your affiliate links? Leave a comment.
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Thanks for the great video.
Dear Tom, I recently updated some of my affiliate links with a simple yet powerful http-equiv refresh. Should work like a PHP header file. When I began marketing affiliate programs I did not think about “disguising” my links but I’m sure it costed me hundreds of bucks…
Thanks for the vid!
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Wish I had found this video earlier, actually 2 or 3 years earlier xD I remember that I costed me a whole night to figure out those redirects (at first I was trying to do it via htaccess).
Anyway, if you got lots of individual links you cannot profit from short urls, which is a pity, but I still get good clickthrough rates so it’s not that big deal.