Affiliate links? Cloak them!
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?
Kay in t Veen April 30th, 2007 at 22:02
cloaking is toch zwaar black hat :P?
Peter van der Graaf May 1st, 2007 at 08:29
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.
Kay in t Veen May 1st, 2007 at 22:00
haha thats what i thought as well! your a bad boy joost ;)
Joost de Valk May 2nd, 2007 at 09:15
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...
joost May 2nd, 2007 at 15:31
What about this.. http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/8126-affliate-link-cloaking-tutorial.html
eregilkibly December 6th, 2007 at 01:02
Fruher warnte man die Manner davor, ihre Spermien nutzlos zu verschleudern. apotek sildenafil
Markus May 13th, 2008 at 07:27
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???
affboy June 29th, 2008 at 10:04
This one is great, free, even can encrypt the link
http://Hide-Affiliate-Links.com/
Its ebook is free ,too.