How to cloak your affiliate or clickbank hoplinks

on your blog or website

You may have heard all the hype over un cloaked clickbank affiliate links getting stolen and affiliates losing up to 40% of the

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All these attempts prey on the affiliates fear and instills in their minds that they may not be getting what they deserve.

I know that commission stealing is a problem, and affiliate networks like Clickbank have taken steps to plug the leaks

in their systems.

I use cloaked affiliate links using the affiliate link cloaker (aff) or redirect pages a lot not because I’m afraid of having

commission deliberately stolen from right under my nose, but because I’m annoyed at the length and ugliness of affiliate URL’s.

Tip: Cloaking your link increases CTR significantly.

I’m not worried about clickbank hoplink hijackers, the reason I do it is because most surfers and online shoppers get nervous when they see a long

affiliate URL with the funky affiliate tracking code. typically it ends in (hop clickbank net) thats just for clickbank. Your affiliate link may look different.

They think it’s a trojan or spyware, etc. I’ve asked family and friends who shop online and are comfortable with it, they don’t know

anything about iaffiliate marketing or understand internet marketing and when they see those affiliate links they’re not scared to click.

Ask around you’ll find the same answers I got.

But It does look more professional having a small hoplink or a redirect than having the long ugly affiliate link.

Plus it’s easy and you don’t need to buy anything.

I’ll show you the 3 lines of code you need and you don’t need to know how to code php just copy and paste.

The whole idea of cloaking or redirecting affiliate or hoplinks has much to do with people’s nature. To be more specific,

it’s all about psychology. It’s interesting that people are hesitant to click affiliate links and tend to cut off the ugly looking

part in an affiliate link before pasting it to the browser.

SO…Let’s compare the following two links:

http://www.somedomainurl/copy.asp?storefront=youraffID

And

http://yoururl.com/affprodname

You can do this from your Cpanel if you like

Which one looks more clickable? The answer is pretty clear.

You can replace long affiliate links or clickbank hoplink URL’s with cloaked links or short, server-side redirects so that people won’t feel

pitched and won’t be turned off by links that are obviously affiliate links. There are several ways to create

clean links that you can use to direct buyers to your sales pages.

Read through the post how to cloak your affiliate or clickbank hoplinks part-two and

see which one meets your needs and fall within your skill level.