Posted by admin | Posted in clickbank tips | Posted on 25-07-2009
Tags: cloak clickbank affiliate link, cloak clickbank link
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If you are using Clickbank, commission theft become so rampant that sometimes you could hardly gain commission from each traffic.
- When you send promotional email to your list, you don’t want them to see ugly links that prevent them from clicking on it.
- You also don’t want your promotional email to fall into spam folder.
- Lots of article directories like Ezine Articles or Hubpages don’t allow affiliate links to reduce spam articles and maintain their quality in the eye of search engines.
Below are common methods that people always use to cloak or hide affiliate links.
Method 1: By using Tiny URL
To use this method, you can simply log on to http://tinyurl.com , enter your affiliate link in the box and you are ready to go. This method is just to avoid visitors recognize your link each time they hover the mouse. However, they can easily found that you gain commission as a Clickbank affiliate once they click on the link and see the address bar. For example like productwebsite.com/index.php?hop=yourclickbankid.
However, I found that some Clickbank merchants already eliminate this ugly hop issue.
This method is useful to cloak a link when sending promotional emails, or to be inserted into your website.
Method 2: By using iframe
This method requires you to have your own domain and hosting. Your visitors will see yourwebsite.com/product, in the address bar, instead of
productwebsite.com/index.php?hop=yourclickbankid.
To use this method, copy the following code to notepad, and replace the YOUR-AFFILIATE-LINK-HERE with your real affiliate link. PRODUCT NAME HERE with the product name you are promoting.
<html>
<head><title>PRODUCT NAME HERE.</title></head>
<frameset border="0">
<frame src="YOUR-AFFILIATE-LINK-HERE" frameborder="no">
<noframes>
Sorry, it appears you are using a Web browser thatdoes not support frames.
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Save the notepad file into a .html file. For example cloak.html. Then, upload this file to your server. When someone click on the link, he will see yourwebsite.com/cloak.html. See example.
However, when people see the page source, (Press Ctrl + U for Firefox), they will able to see your affiliate link. 80% visitors won’t do this anyway, unless if they already know this method.
This method is useful when you are including affiliate link in
- promotional emails.
- your website
- the articles and bio box when you submit articles to Ezine Articles or Hubpages. These websites don’t allow affiliate links, but they allow you to include your website links which is directed to affiliate link.
Method 3: Paid method using Affiliate Cloner
This is by using a paid program called Affiliate Cloner. This program overcome all above problems. However, total price is $49.90, quite high for a program which I don’t think important. If you can’t afford it or want to save your money, then don’t buy. This is actually not really needed.
By using Affiliate Cloner, people who click your links won’t be able to detect whether it is an affiliate link or not. They can’t find your affiliate id anywhere in the page source or the address bar. This is example of link which I hide using Affiliate Cloner.
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