Comments on: Cloaking Your Affiliate Links

By: Elly

Elly — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:48:22 +0000

HI Jody.

That is really cool, I never knew that. I haven’t yet started with clickbank but I have joined up and looking forward to finding some products to sell.

Cloaking your link for you is a pretty good service aye!

By: jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:03:42 +0000

Hi Sean,

I have used bit.ly and find it to be pretty good as you can track all the relative clicks through your shortened links. The only thing that I have found with using bit.ly shortened url’s is that if you use them on Facebook, the link gets tagged as possible spam & you have to fill out a captcha which I thought was a bit weird.

By: Jody Chambers

Jody Chambers — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:22:14 +0000

Clickbank now cloaks you link when you get them to generate a hoplink for you…prevously you used you affiliate ID as part of the URL to get paid, which was easily hijacked. I must agree that if I saw a obviously cloaked link I would not click on it.

By: Jazz Salinger

Jazz Salinger — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:47:03 +0000

Hi Helen,

I love that bit.ly provides you with stats so you can see clearly how many people clicked on your link. I find it gives me a great opportunity to play around with the text I use with the link.

You can clearly see which phrases people react to and which ones don’t work at all.

By: Elly

Elly — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:56:57 +0000

Hi Sean

I haven’t had to cloak an affiliate link yet however it will only be a matter of time until I do.

I like the idea of shortening the URL’s as it makes them look neater and for that I will have a look at TinyURL .

The consensus here seems to be to use Bit.Ly for cloaking links so I will go check on that one too.

Great information thanks Sean.