Affiliate links? Cloak them!

30 April 2007 Joost de Valk 12 comments, leave your own!

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?

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10 Responses to “Affiliate links? Cloak them!”

  1. By Kay in t Veen Mon, April 30th, 2007 at 22:02 Reply

    cloaking is toch zwaar black hat :P?

  2. By Peter van der Graaf Tue, May 1st, 2007 at 08:29 Reply

    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.

  3. By Kay in t Veen Tue, May 1st, 2007 at 22:00 Reply

    haha thats what i thought as well! your a bad boy joost ;)

  4. By Joost de Valk Wed, May 2nd, 2007 at 09:15 Reply

    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...

  6. By eregilkibly Thu, December 6th, 2007 at 01:02 Reply

    Fruher warnte man die Manner davor, ihre Spermien nutzlos zu verschleudern. apotek sildenafil

  7. By Markus Tue, May 13th, 2008 at 07:27 Reply

    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???

  8. By affboy Sun, June 29th, 2008 at 10:04 Reply

    This one is great, free, even can encrypt the link
    http://Hide-Affiliate-Links.com/
    Its ebook is free ,too.

  9. By A Nahwi Wed, March 18th, 2009 at 01:30 Reply

    I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. Thank you

  10. By dunki Sun, May 10th, 2009 at 17:57 Reply

    What about this plugin, it seems to do the job: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/

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