Affiliate Cloaking Saving Your Affiliate Commissions

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This is not a subject I particularly like discussing, however the reality still remains that if you aren’t cloaking your affiliate links you are opening the doors to hackers to go in and steal money from you. That’s right, this applies to everyone who actively promotes Affiliate products and/or services. Some of the stories I have come across regarding this subject have been staggering.

So what is affiliate cloaking exactly? It sounds somewhat obvious because your are replacing the original URL with some that is far more attractive then the URL you were given from your affiliate. Services like TinyURL.com also takes the longer URL’s and makes them much shorter and it is close to impossible for a hacker to get to the original code.

You don’t have to go with TInyUrl it is just an example and you can do a search for link cloaking and they all deliver them a little bit differently. Your affiliate URL still remains the same and it is simply covering it up so others can’t get to you and it gives a much more professional appearance. But the most important thing is that it hides all of your information that would lead a hacker to your affiliate account and hijack your hard earned affiliate income.

So how is all this accomplished exactly? Well it comes form a term called Advanced Domain Forwarding. Today there are as many out there as you can probably count. If your serious about affiliate marketing this is a step you do not want to forget when you are setting up your website or blog. If you want to see an example of this simply hold your mouse over one of the products I have listed in the right side bar and look down to the bottom left.

So there you have it. You’ll benefit by hiding your personal information as well as making your links look far more professional than using the affiliate link that is given to you by your affiliate.

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