What is link cloaking?
It is generally advised that if you are using affiliate links that you cloak them so that they are not obviously an affiliate link.
Some not very nice people out there will notice by hovering over the link and checking the task bar at the bottom of the screen, then change your link to theirs, and then of course collect the commission.
Also, some people just don’t like clicking on affiliate links for various reasons. Cloaking the following way will make it seem as if the link is part of your site.
When we talk about affiliate links Clickbank links come to mind as not only are they ugly but they are also very obvious.
Here is an example:
http://h30b2bgi19sb5v5ayu84uu7q85.hop.clickbank.net/ (Note: don’t click on this as it is not an active link but an example)
Here is a cloaked alternative:
http://yoururl.com/uses/xxxx.php
How do you make that cloaked link? Here is one way to do it that most people can do.
