Is URL Cloaking allowed with Commission Junction?

Is URL Cloaking allowed with Commission Junction?

I m very new to Commission Junction so provide provide some information about this

 

I think it's "don't ask, don't tell".

 

Commision Junction prefers you use their Javascript links which do not display addresses on the browser. I emailed them about the html (for emails) and they replied that they do not gurantee referal credit if the code is changed. They would not reply 'yes or no'.

 

Thanks very much for your help guys!

 

It depends on how you do it. Be prepared to answer questions from CJ's network quality team if you choose to do so. CJ might hold your payment until they are satisfied with your answers.

 

I use cloaking and I've never had a problem. As long as the end URL is theirs, you should be fine. After having worked on their network of servers as a CJ intern, the way its setup it works just fine.

They will, of course, always tell you the best method is to use their URLs exactly as is because that's how it's supposed to work, but there's different ways to format URLs and still have them working.

 

It's fine, as far as I know. I cloak my URL, and I haven't had any problems.

 

Same here. Not a problem since I've been signed up.

 

Been doing it for about 2 years now with no issues.

 

I wouldn't do it. Some of the merchants expressly forbid cloaking and some don't. If you get caught you will probably lose your account for good.

 

I cloak my URL using adtrackz.

Eg.
anrdoesadszrs.net/click-mycjid-10410195
becomes
mydomain.com/somethingelse

When I check my adtrackz stats, I see that I get clicks but when I check my cj stats, no clicks are registered! What's happening?

 

Are you cloaking just so the user doesn't see that it's an aff link? If so, just use mouseovers or something, then you still get them to go to the aff URL without "seeing" it until it's "too late."

 

I only cloak for SEO purposes. Affiliate links are nothing but detrimental to your SERPs. If I was the president of Cj.com I wouldn't care less that people were doing that. I don't see how they lose anything.

But then again I'm not the president of Cj.

... Or am I?

 

I guess I misunderstood. I thought the OP meant showing different page to google than the other visitors like 1EighT does.

I agree with what you have said above. Also this allows you to track clicks to each link if you get the right script.

 

You can cloak url's or you can cloak pages. Either way it is cloaking. Just a different type.