5 Ways to Shorten and Protect Affiliate Links With Free Software

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span                            replacing cookies. The best way
class="cap">Affilia     to prevent customers or such
te programs are booming         malicious groups from identifying
hese days and many serious minded     your URLs is to cloak them. There
marketers have been making lots       is free software available these
of money. However, affiliate          days that can effectively help
programs are also fraught with        you cloak your links.

risks like stealware and other

Affiliate link cloaking: how
malicious exploits that steal to go about it?

commissions from marketers.

Customers tend to hesitate
However, there are some great         clicking on an affiliate link
ways to protect your affiliate        simply because they are tired of
commissions, so you wouldn’t lose     all those promotions. Then there
a cent.                               are stealware and other malicious
Here are top 5 ways to protect        software that constantly keep
your affiliate links and your         track of affiliate links and try
commissions:

to steal commissions away from

Why having unsafe links is unsuspecting affiliate marketers.
problematic?

You can avail various software

Typically, most affiliate          for free these days that can help
marketers use standardized            you effectively cloak your links.
affiliate links that direct the       You can use any of the following
customers to the merchant site.       techniques to cloak your
The problem with this is that         links:

customers can easily identify it

1) Banner servers:

as an affiliate link. It also

Banner servers are great
makes your affiliate marketing        because any advertisements that
more vulnerable to hackers and        direct customers on these servers
malicious people who can easily       will have extremely long text
steal your commissions as well by     links. This way, your customer

will never be able to read the        pp/aftrack.php?afid=12345"
entire link to know it is             target="_blank"
actually an affiliate redirect.       onmouseover="window.status='http:
However, installing a banner          //www.merchant.abc.com';return
advertisement server can be time      true;"
consuming and complex so this may     onmouseout="window.status='
not be the best option for you.       ';return true;"-Click
Moreover, banner servers cost         here-/a-

money.

In this example, merchntxyz is

2) Scripts and software your merchant advertising company
tracking:

– your unique affiliate link. The

You can also use software as       first portion of the URL contains
well as various scripts to track      your own affiliate link while the
the click-throughs from               second portion of this URL shows
customers. This software will         what actually gets shown on the
never display the affiliate links     status bar of the browser. The
directly and instead show the         end portion of the URL is the
link to the tracking software         text link. Once a customer clicks
that has been installed on the        on this link a new window loads
affiliate’s – marketer’s              so that you don’t end up losing
website.

your customer from your affiliate

3) Using JavaScript:

site.

You can also cloak your

4) Ultimate cloaking
affiliate links using JavaScript. method:

For example, if your target URL

One of the best and most
is:

fool-proof methods of performing

Just replace - with < and > cloaking on your affiliate links
for a code to work:

is to create a separate html file

-a on your website, i.e.
href="http://www.merchntxyz.com/a http://www.marketersdomain.com/gr

eatprogram.html and paste the         affiliate programs network that
following HTML code into that         believes in protecting its
website. Just replace that            affiliates. It is a highly
merchantxyz link with your own        reputed and renowned affiliate
link to your affiliate program.       program site that has all the
This way your affiliate links         protections to protect your
will be cloaked and you won’t         affiliate commissions. When you
lose a single cent!

choose a network of affiliate

Note: please, replace - with < programs to promote products,
and > characters, since this code make sure to choose a good one
won't work.

that will provide you with full

-html-                             securities, so your affiliate
-head-                                commissions could not be
-meta name="robots"                   stolen!

content="noindex,nofollow"-           >About the
-meta http-equiv='refresh'            Authorcontent='0;                           id="authorbio"
url=http://www.merchntxyz.com/app     class="membersnoticewhite">Egidij
/aftrack.php?afid=12345'-             us Andreika is a creator of
-/head-                               Click2Sell.EU -/html-

href="http://www.click2sell.eu">A

5) Select a good affiliate ffiliate Programs Network.
network that supports affiliate Sell digital products online and
link cloaking:

run your affiliate program. Get

There are some good affiliate      paid instantly, provide easy
networks that automatically           payment options for customers,
protects your affiliate link, so      recruit affiliates. Affiliates –
your affiliate commissions could      your affiliate commissions are
not be stolen. Click2sell.EU          protected. Promote products and
(http://www.click2sell.eu) is an      sell downloads online. Visit

Click2Sell: ieldset>

http://www.click2sell.eu

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