Affiliate links? Cloak them!
30 April 2007
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John Chow did a post on how to hide your affiliate links... Of course the only proper way to hide affiliate links is: cloaking them. I'm thinking about building a WordPress plugin for that specific purpose. Anyone know of a proper affiliate link cloaking script?






cloaking is toch zwaar black hat :P?
Hi Joost,
I used to be a cloaking king and never got caught (with cloaking), but you on the other hand have an offwhite-hat reputation. Don't ruin the reputation with such a post. When and if the company you work for gets caught with anything slightly grey, this post will be regurgitated to show OTM is a group of blackhats.
If cloaking is something you practice; Don't preach it!
I've got some cloaking instructions on my blog, but I rarely do cloaking anymore. So for me it is the opposite. But I didn't get caught because I adapted the technique to what search engines and competitors could see.
Hiding affilliate links is against most guidelines and is easily detected by your competition. So I'd recommend against it.
haha thats what i thought as well! your a bad boy joost ;)
Hehe Peter, I am a spotty white hat at work, and I won't ever recommend anyone to cloak while working for Onetomarket.
However, if you're in the affiliate business like most readers over at john chow, there's nothing wrong with getting your hands dirty a bit...
What about this.. http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/8126-affliate-link-cloaking-tutorial.html
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What about this one: http://www.kloeschen.de/empfiehlt/wplinkcloak/ ?
It's not free, but I use it and it works realy good.
I think the comment above mine is spam???
This one is great, free, even can encrypt the link
http://Hide-Affiliate-Links.com/
Its ebook is free ,too.
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What about this plugin, it seems to do the job: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/