Lets say you want to market AffiliateCompany.com and your affiliate link is AffiliateCompany.com/aff?=15458565
– if you place this in forums or on sites that dont specifically allow for “affiliate links” you can not only shed your account with the site but additionally your authority with the online community.
Lets admit it; its 2010 and most men and women who actively search on the internet are fed up with people attempting to “sell” these folks something. It has gotten enough where people don’t even know if the review they see in regards to a childrens toy is respectable or when it is authored by someone who gets a comission by selling the toy. (Side note; this is the reason the FTC stepped in and built a Bloggers Disclosure Law).
The blogger/ author nonetheless has the aim of marketing the product, but they are continuously getting ran out by “NO AFFILIATE LINKS ALLOWED!” and “I won’t trust you! This seems like an affilite link!” – so a solution was found; Link Masking.
Link Masking (Frequently called “Link Cloaking”) is a software utilized by bloggers (and spammers alike) to hide affiliate urls from the prospective client (visitor, AKA: Potential Buyer).
So going back to the original affiliate link for AffiliateCompany.com which looks this way:
AffiliateCompany.com/aff?=15458565
(if I type it out or cut and insert it in full) OR it will look like this:
AffiliateCompany.com
If I use one of several free links presented by the merchant by means of my affiliate account.
Yet either way, when the person clicks the link and looks at the Status Bar, they will still notice that it really is an affiliate link – another strikeout.
The top Link Masking not only conceals the affiliate link that an individual is observing but additionally masks the Status Bar to say something other than the link which the user is being directed to.
So check this out;
There are some different means to mask links:
The FREE Method:
You can by hand produce cloaked links.
Make use of BitLy. BitLy will “shorten” your link and provide you with a various link that is linked to your link (if that makes any sense). So let us say I put my affiliate link AffiliateCompany.com/aff?=15458565 into BitLy; I then obtain this link: bit.ly/1df5sd
Whenever clicked, the brand new BitLy will get the user directly to the affiliate page while not exposing my affiliate link. The drawback is that this isn’t the most effective way to mask links because you haven’t any control over the status bar.
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