Once you start to become an affiliate marketer and working hard to promote your affiliate product/service, the only thing that will be linking you to a sale of a product/service is your affiliate link. Example of an affiliate link is as below: http://mylinkxxx.golaleo.hop.clickbank.net/   Every affiliate link which is not protected could be easily hijacked, and you could loose from being credited for a sale. The main focus here is not to explain how actually an affiliate link will be hijacked, but more into how you could protect your affiliate link and sales by knowing affiliate link cloaking methods.

 

Free Affiliate Link Cloaking Methods

 

There are few ways you could protect your affiliate link. One of the easiest and zero cost method to protect your affiliate link is by using a third party website which provides affiliate link cloaking or redirecting services. Using this method,  your long affiliate link could be shorten and the link is hidden from potential link hijackers who will steal your hard earn sale.

 

The way this method work is by having a redirecting page within the third party website which points back to your affiliate link. Visitors could not see your affiliate link and it is much more safer. The third party website will automatically create the redirecting page and you do not have to do anything, and just have to register with them and follow their instructions to create your link.

 

This free affiliate link cloaking service could be used either your are promoting affiliate program with your own website or without a website. Especially when you are promoting affiliate product/service without a website, it is strongly recommend you protect your link using services from website such as shown below. Once you have your own website, you could use other methods such as explain further below at Software For Affiliate Cloaking.

 

Some of the sites which you could use free services are:

1. www.tinyurl.com

2. www.go2-url.com

NOTE: Using free services for affiliate link cloaking could be nice, but always remember that all your original affiliate links are stored within the free website and the website actually provides a redirecting service. For any reason, if the website crash or not in service anymore, you could be loosing lots of hard work as your cloaked affiliate link which was given to you, and you have placed and promoted all over the world wide web becomes useless.

It is highly recommended once you have start to generate money using the free services, always try to get your own affiliate link cloaking software and hosting.

 

Software For Affiliate Link Cloaking

 

If you have a website to promote your own affiliate program, you actually could use your own software to protect your affiliate link. What this software does is it creates a html redirecting page which you could copy and save within you hosting site in a folder. 

 

For example, assume your affiliate link looks like this http://hop.newsoftware.com/link/youraffiliate and when you use this type of software to protect your link, you could disguise your affiliate link to look as it is part of your own website, for example such as http://www.toliveonline.com/mylink or you could even link to the affiliate link to certain phrase.   This is done by naming the html file created by the software with the same name as mylink (remember you could name it as any name you like). When someone types in or click to a phrase which carries a link to http://www.toliveonline.com/mylink, this link is actually redirecting your visitor to the original affiliate link http://hop.newsoftware.com/link/youraffiliate .   Free Software Which You Could Use If you would like free affiliate link cloaking software, you could download here. This software is a third party software. It works same as any other cloaking software, but in the even the original owner would like to discontinue the software, you could not use it in future. However, all the cloaked link could be used without any problem even if the software could not be used in future.

 

Software Which You Could Have 100% Control

Some of the software that you could use and do not require any dependent to third party :

1. http://www.affiliatelinkcloaker.com  

2. http://www.affiliatecloner.com

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