Cloaking Affiliate Links

To ensure that you don’t lose revenues from affiliate marketing programs that you subscribe to, you need to cloak those links. Nowadays, Internet surfers are getting more savvy of these schemes and don’t typically click on links directly to pass on some moolah to you. They will simply strip off the affiliate code before going to the site. You lose out in such scenarios.

You will be left wondering why you’re not making money online!!

The key is to beat the surfers by coming up with some smart mechanisms of hiding the link. If this can be done, there is a much higher likelyhood that they will click on the link rather than taking the pain of finding out the URL.

So, how do we do that? There are various methods to achieve this. Surprisingly, when I was doing my research for this article, I couldn’t find many Wordpress plugins that would provide this flexibility. I found one at least which is covered towards the end of this list. Read the rest of this entry »