Today I wanted to talk about affiliate link cloaking, and why you MUST hide your affiliate links. As you probably heard already, there are lots of cases where someone is really interested in the product you are offering as an affiliate. Now, there are people who don’t know they can register as an affiliate like you did for the same company and get the product at a 75% discount.
Lets say you are registered at Clickbank dot com as an affiliate, and you’re promoting their products. You start doing a very hard work by promoting and advertising on all kinds of places. Now when you recommend your product to someone who knows clickbank, he can simply register for an account if he does not already have one, and grab the product with his own affiliate link and get a 35%-75% discount. He pay’s for the product, get it for the real price, and the percentage is going to his clickbank affiliate account.
That sucks!
So, what can you do to save all the hard work you’re spending your time and money on?
CLOAK YOUR LINKS
Cloaking a link will take you less than a minute, and you’ll be sure no one is grabbing your money. Well not sure, but most of the profits will stay yours.
So, here’s how to cloak your links and prevent people to steal your commissions.
Download the profit protector. Don’t worry, it’s a freeware.
Now as you can see in this example, the link is ugly and very long. Cloaking your links can help you with making your links nice and professional, and at the same time protect your commission.
Here is the new link after I used the profit protector:
http://www.IMBlogging.com/DownloadPP
As you can see it look great, and it does the same job.
Here how to do it yourself:
Open the Profit Protector software. Now you’ll have area’s, one for your affiliate link, and one for your page title. The page title is what people will see in the blue bar at the top of the page. The Profit Protector will simply create one html page for your with a cloaked link. All you have to do to use this page is to create a directory for it on your server as I did for the name “/DownloadPP” and upload the html page to your server. When the software ask’s you what name you want to give to the file, just call it index. Never forget to check the link after you uploaded. In some cases if not always you’ll see that the software has called the file “index.HTML” which is not got for you and the link will not work. Go to the file on your server and rename that file again to “index.html” and you’re done. Now check your links again and they should work.
If you have any question, and I mean any question about this post, please ask it so I could help you. You don’t want to loose money so it’s better to ask:)
Until the next one….
Mike G Hersh
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