How to cloak your affiliate links made easy

In this article I’ll explain how to cloak your affiliate links and why you should do. I’ll also discuss what link cloaking is and I’ll also talk a little about link tracking and why you might want to consider this for your internet marketing campaigns.

Link cloaking, sometimes called link masking, is where a normal affiliate link URL is turned in to a link URL that doesn’t look like an affiliate link. Your affiliate link might be something like “www.myproduct.com/aff=3745736284623728264” and using this kind of link can be problematic as a visitor to your site may remove the affiliate id code from the link when visiting the web address which would mean you won’t receive any commission on the sale. With a link cloaker we can change the affiliate link to something like this “www.linkcloak/myoffer” and the link has to stay intact to work meaning your commissions are safe.

As well as knowing how to cloak your affiliate links it is also helpful to know how to track them. By tracking your links you will have access to statistics showing how many times your link was clicked and which link was clicked on. For internet marketers this is very valuable information to have because you can see which campaigns need tweaking for better sales conversions.

Most of the time link cloakers give you some tracking info but before you decide which link cloaker you are going to use make sure there is tracking data provided. There are some free link cloaking tools and some which you have to pay for and some of the free ones are really good.

In order to cloak an affiliate link, you’ll just need to enter the raw affiliate link in to the program. The link cloaking program will then generate a new link which you can use on your site. Make sure to enable tracking if you have to do so, so that you will be able to collect statistical data.

As you can see it is most important for internet marketers to cloak their affiliate links so that affiliate links are secure and commissions are not lost. Using link cloaking software it is also possible to collect data from your affiliate links so that marketing campaigns may be improved or adjusted.