A Short Easy to do Method for Cloaking
Cloaking? It’s what every affiliate should do, novice or not. Anytime you advertise your affiliate link
you should cloak that link so:
- It won’t get sniped
- It won’t look like some impossibly long and confusing URL,
and
- It will look a lot more professional
There are a lot of ways to cloak your affiliate links, but what I am going to show you is really easy, and you
have a lot of control over it. Also, it’s free. However, you must have the following:
- Your own domain name.
- Access to your own server domain and its directory or file manager.
- An FTP program of some sort, either built in or external.
OK, here we go. You need to copy some HTML to your hard drive.
<html><head>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;
url=http://www.the-resource-report.com/?newest_version=16117'>
</head>
</html>
Copy and paste this to a text file so you can flip back and forth.
Now, see where it has URL=? Replace what I’ve got there and replace it with your own affiliate link. Save
it back as “some name,” let’s say affiliate_code.html. (you must save it as .html).
Next, access the directory or file manager of your domain name. Create a directory under the main level, call
it what you like. I use “recommends.” Then either upload or FTP your saved code to the new directory. That’s
it.
Then, your new affiliate link will look something like this:
http://yourdomainname.com/recommends/affiliate_code.html.
In the coded example above, the actual result look like this:
http://digitalshores.com/recommends/resourcereport.html
It works like a champ. It’s free. And it maintains your affiliate link information all the way through to
your eventual target page.
Unfortunately, unless your domain name server has tracking capabilities, you won’t really be able to do
much of that. If you want that, along with cloaking, I have some suggestions for you. Both work extremely well, have
tracking capabilities, and (best of all) are FREE.
