I survived my weekend in London and had a fantastic time.  I even went to nightclub that I haven’t frequented for almost 10 years.  I had a good boogie and stayed up until the small hours catching up with my friends and generally having a good time.

I’ve got this weird thing at the moment though where a muscle deep in my left buttock is causing me quite a lot of pain.  For those of you that are medically inclined, it’s called piriformis syndrome.

Anyway, that was giving me a bit of trouble the next day, but apart from that I didn’t suffer as much as I was expecting to.

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Marketing Tip of the Day
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Link cloaking is a very important part of affiliate marketing.  In a nutshell, link cloaking is a way to protect your affiliate commissions from being stolen.

How do people steal affiliate commissions?  Well, have you ever hovered over a link and noticed that the link was an obvious affiliate link?

Some people type in the parent domain instead of clicking the link as a way of making sure the owner of the site gets paid 100% for the sale.  They falsely believe that if they buy from an affiliate link, they’ll have to pay more for a commission mark-up.

Other people actually do it for a different reason.  If you’re promoting a ClickBank product, especially to other marketers, many of them know they can insert their own ClickBank ID and get what’s usually a 50% or more discount on the product.

This is a different type of affiliate commission theft, because the person doing it gets the affiliate commission themselves, rather than just making sure you don’t get it.  Most people don’t do that, of course, but it happens.

Most people are pretty honest, and don’t mind giving you a little affiliate commission in exchange for recommending a good product to them.  But it’s enough of a concern that you should take steps to prevent it.

You can easily set up your own link cloaking system.  You can set up a directory on one of your domains.  Most marketers use the domain of their own name, as in bobsmith.com.  Then they typically have a subdirectory called /recommends/.

Inside of that directory, they create a new subdirectory for each product, like this: bobsmith.com/recommends/productname. In that directory, they place what’s called a redirect file, which instantly takes the visitor to the actual affiliate link without displaying it. You can easily find out how create a redirect by looking it up online. It’s very simple to do.

There are also a number of link cloaking scripts available.  Most of them are relatively easy to install and use.  There’s a big benefit to using a script rather than doing it yourself.  Using your simple redirect, there isn’t an easy way to check how much traffic you’ve sent to your link, like scripts do.

Most link cloaking scripts also allow you to add new links very easily within an administrative area, and then each link is tracked so that you can see how much traffic is going through the link.  If you use your own file, the only way to tell how much traffic you’ve sent is through your affiliate stats, which may be inaccurate, or through your web server’s stats, which may be difficult to use and hard to understand.

Cloaking your affiliate links is the smart thing to do if you want to be sure you are protecting your hard-earned commissions online.

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That’s it for today.  Take Care

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