How do you hide an affiliate link?

What's the best way to hide an affiliate link? cloaking, url redirect, url masking?

Is it true that if you use url masking, you can lose up to 50% of your sales because it throws off the affiliate tracking system?

 

php redirect

 

I use a cloaking and re-direct system. Works fine, and gets rid of that affiliate ID "look".

 

redirect or whatever you use will not lose your tracking. Just use Htaccess redirect quick easy simple and works.

 

whats the system called?

 

I know redirect wont. I was questioning masking.

whats htaccess?

 

u can use .htaccess file to do redirects so when someone on your site goes to yoursite.com/offer they can be sent to your affiliate link

I have done masking also no loss in trackin.

 

Any1 else, Is it true that if you use url masking, you can lose up to 50% of your sales because it throws off the affiliate tracking system?

 

no. definately not. it just calls one url, from which the other one (containing your affiliate id link) is called. Nothing too fancy here, and nothing to lose.

 

are you 100% positive? (sorry I ask) I just want to make sure before I take this approach.

 

yes. how can it lose 50% of sales? If it doesn't work, it wouldn't work all the time, if it works, it works everytime. No discussion here, in my opinion.

 

alright. i wasn't trying to question you or anything. I read that in an ebook from a "leader" in the network marketing industry.

 

you can do link cloaker, visit this tool http://www.addme.com/linkcloaker.htm .

 

just trying to help, didn't take any of it that way.