Cloaking your affiliate link is the practice of hiding your ugly affiliate URL link from your visitors. So instead of seeing “http://noteeboyz.massarticl.hop.clickbank.net/” they’ll see “www.yourdomain.com/recommends/productname” or whatever product you are promoting. Which is, I think we can agree is much more attractive URL to make people click!
Link cloaking is important not only because it will improve the amount of times your links get clicked (many internet users are skeptical of weird links with loads of numbers) but also, it helps prevent affiliate link theft. This is when a user sees your blatant affiliate link and thinks “hmm, I think I’ll just sign up as an affiliate and save myself 50% of the sale”.
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