Cloaking helps better with affiliate marketing Your Comment

Affiliate marketing is a venue to generate extra income, How you make your money and do you support cloaking (ip delivery) way to divert your visitors to your affiliate landing pages

 

Basically, when you cloak, the main point is to hide your affiliate link? Am I right?

Why would you want to do that? If the customer, doesn't know anything about IM, they will not notice anything suspicious in your link.

 

But if they do know about IM, it makes it just a little bit harder to copy the URL to the venders site. Clear cookies or switch browsers and load the site without giving you credit. It's sad but very true. I bet 90% of the people here do it.

 

Ok, so can anyone suggest free link cloaking tools?

 

I know one, but its only for text links, not image links. If you're interested, pm me.

 

You can mask affiliate links using 301 redirects in .htaccess

 

You can use short urls also for links but i would not

 

I wouldn't either.

 

dcristo

Can you please be more specific?

kingbrend

PMed

 

I believe he is referring to url shorteners like tinyurl

 

I do cloak my links. I do not use tinyurl, or any url shorteners though. My brother and I have developed a solution for our efforts with php/mysql, and .htaccess/apache. I usually set up my links on youtube vids and article pages (most of them) with product.mywebsite.com. What is done, is that we built a virtual subdomain system, which apache picks up the subdomain, then turns the subdomain into a variable. This variable then is looked up through a mysql query for matching, and the matched variable fetches an affiliate url and is placed in a php header function for a redirect to myhop.yourid.hop.clickbank.net.

 

place this line in .htacess

Redirect 301 /folder http://affiliate.merchant.hop.clickbank.net

Code (markup):

where http://affiliate.merchant.hop.clickbank.net is the affiliate link and /folder is a virtual folder which you use as the link on your site so it doesn't appear as an affiliate link.

 

That looks like just a redirect and no cloaking... or am I wrong?

 

By the way, I hear with frame cloaking... IE Blocks those cookies?

 

Kingbrend,

From my experience. There was a thread that AmyCheung started a few days ago discussing this. I had tested this method on IE7, Firefox, and Safari (Mac User). The only problem I seemed to have was trying to pass the affiliate id through Safari. But also keep in mind, from what I have heard, that using Frameset cloaking, is frowned by clickbank's TOS.

 

It doesn't block in my Ie version either... whatever that is. It's just weird I'm not sure what works better because lately my sales have been up and down too much. Today is very good so far without cloaking. Yesterday was bad without cloaking. With cloaking was bad and good as well. So... I don't know.

 

Avoid the frame redirect until you read the TOS .... that way there will be no surprises.

 

what is wrong with the tinyurl like utilities? yiou are afraid that they may know your hops and products??

 

THey just look unprofessional.

 

I use php redirects. I find them very comfortable since I can change the product easily through them and not having to update any single link on my website.
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