I was recently tipped off by an affiliate program that PayPal's Payment Button script doesn't work with most link cloakers, so I checked it out, and to my alarm, it's true! I've tried several link cloakers and whenever I click on a PayPal buy button from a cloaked link, it goes to a Click Here to Retry screen instead of the Checkout screen. There's no way to purchase the product! I've contacted the people who run the main link cloaker I'm using, and I'm awaiting a reply. I've Googled this problem and, surprisingly, I can't find any mention of it. This is an example link - http://cashmachine101.com/loves/PiggyBackPR/ - it would be great if someone could test it and report back to me so I know it's not something wrong at my end. Time is of the essence. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Michael Weir
I've tried 2 different versions of Affiliate Link Cloaker, MyLinkGuard, ViralURL and LinkBrander. PayPal Payment simply doesn't work in a frame. I noticed that if I use a cloaked link, then go to the original landing page, it has stored my PayPal address in a cookie. So, I was thinking maybe I'll use PHP to have my cloaked links redirect to the original sites. That way the ugly affiliate link nver shows up. Provided the affiliate program works with cookies, it makes a good temporary fix. Still not as good as a straight cloaked link, but at least I won't miss out any commissions.
A guy who runs one of the Link Cloakers tested my links for me and they work fine, yet they don't on my PC. Yet the uncloaked affiliate links work fine on PC. I'm relieved that my links are working fine, but it seems IE7 on my PC has a problem with frames. Now if only I knew how to fix that.