Why use link cloaking

Affiliate marketing is one of the main sources of income for bloggers like us. This is really a great tool to gain more from affiliate URLs.

Thank you for explaining what link cloaking is. Hi, If i have a cpa offer i want to promote and i want to cloak the url, do i need a landing page? Do we have any risk from Google Analytics, Google considering cloaking as black hat pratice? I want to promote cpa offers using link cloaking and bring paid traffic instead of taking the traffic to landing pages. Does cpa network allow this? Thats a question for the affiliate network you are working with.

This is usually in place when the company themselves are heavy on PPC ads. I am using the thirstyaffiliate-Plugin since yesterday and i am excited, how the users will react to the new cloaking urls. Thank for sharing this informative blog post about the affiliate marketing and link cloaking with thirsty affiliate link management plugin for WordPress. The plugin is useful for affiliate marketers indeed. Hi and thanks for that video. Can your tool solve the Safari issue blocking 3rd party cookies?

Is Link Cloaking still possible for Mac users? Yes, when you cloak a link what you are doing is basically creating a redirect. The visitor visits your cloaked URL, then they are immediately redirected to the destination URL which includes your tracking information. Are there any concerns with cloaking an affiliate link that will redirect again? For example, would any issues arise if your cloaking link were to redirect to a Google click tracker that then redirects again to the final landing page?

Also in this scenario, if we were to use the uncloaking feature on a link like this, would the user still pass through the google click tracker in order to get all of the click tracking in that tracking system as well? I have installed the plugin and activated it. I have included my affiliate links, but when I click on them, they still show the ugly affiliate link.

What could be the problem? ThirstyAffiliates will put the link behind a redirect to give a friendly looking URL, but that is as far as you can go. Hi, Is there any way to mask the url appeared in the url address bar at the top of the directed site? Am I searching an impossible technique? You would instead create a new link in ThirstyAffiliates, it gives you a cloaked url and then you use that instead. Please help me for the same. I waiting for your response. Thanks for explaining what link cloaking is.

Maybe i gonna start with a single site license within a few days. ThirstyAffiliates has an uncloaking feature specifically designed to deal with this problem. Will cloaking these HTTP affiliate links, eliminate that from happening? The not secure warnings. It makes short URL but you are not able to add you domain name in the links. Now I will try Easy affiliate link, I will share my experience about this. Yes, It is true that you can not add your domain with URL shortening but with Link cloaking you can add you own domain with the links.

Hello Ravi, Love your posts. I would like to know is there any social sharing plugin like social warfare which is free with share counters. Thanks, Abhishek! Thanks Ravi Bro for these great guide , until am not using affiliate link clocking method but now am use these because now i understand the importance of these.

You should be using it, bro! It can help you a lot in driving more affiliate sales. Glad to help you…. Hello Ravi This is awsome Thanks For sharing this valuable guide. I will surely try this affiliate link cloaking in my website. StayMeOnline is a space for people who are frustrated from shackle 9 to 5 job and want the freedom to work from anywhere and at any time. Even a blog with 10 visitors daily can make money through affiliate marketing.

There are other disadvantages also… This is where affiliate link cloaking comes to make them short and trustworthy. Table of Contents. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on telegram. Share on pinterest. Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy any product using an affiliate link placed on this blog, it will not add any extra cost in the total price of the product rather I will get some commission from the company.

What Others Are Reading:. Let Me In. Wonderful post and very informative regarding link cloaking. Glad to know that you found it wonderful. While everything mentioned is an important reason to cloak affiliate links, the most important one for you is the ability to track and manage your links easier. This information will help you make good choices going forward. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.

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