How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links

I’ve recently been reviewing some of my subscribers blogs and one of the main things that cropped up more than once is uncloaked affiliate links.

One of the biggest problems with uncloaked affiliate links used to be Clickbank “hoplinks” as it is very easy to see the clickbank “nickname” being used and replace it, sothe referring affiliate ends up not getting credited for the commission, sometimes referred to as “hoplink hijacking”.

Now thsi shouldn’t be as big a problem any more as Clickbank now offer “cloacked” links, instead of the traditional nickname.productname.hop.clickank_dot_net format that it used to be.

However I still recommend using a simple html redirect file on your own site for all affiliate links for a number of reasons, most importantly being that they don’t look so obviously “affiliate” (or monetized) links, but also if you need to change the program you are promoting you can simply change the one file on your own site and anywhere that you have used that link is also effectively updated…

In December last year I got hold of a new one way linking system to try out.

It works with both standard html/php sites and wordpress blogs, and is very easy to set up, as well as allowing you to use it with multiple sites.

I made a video to show just how quick & easy the system is to set up and use which you can watch here: -

One Way Links System

I finally found the time to go and take a lolok at the stats at the start of this month, and I was pleasantly surprised with the results, which you can see in the video below: -

so, for just a few minutes work I’m getting a 3-400% increase in traffic after just 3 months, and this is likely to continue…

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It’s time for a quick update on how well using AdSwaps is working for me in building my newsletter or subscriber “list”, and I’ve got a couple of screen shots which I hope will make it clear just how good a method this is….

I was first introduced to the idea of “adswaps” back in August last year by another marketer called Sean Mize.

He got in touch with me to ask if I would be interested in sending his free offer to my subscribers in return for him sending my free offer to his list.

Now I was used to doing “JV’s” with other marketers where we each send out the other’s paid product offer to our subscribers, and both make some profits in the process, but I’d never done “free swap”, or “adswap” as Sean called it, before, so I was interested in testing it out to see just how well it worked.

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You can see the widget working in the sidebar of this blog, it’s the big blue box.

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Viral Ads Blog Widget

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With John Reese’s announcement that he’s closing down BlogRush yesterday, and Cody Moya recently redirecting his Link2Blogs site to one of his affiliate products, it looks like the only choice left for a decent traffic widget that is worth adding to your blog is the very same one that I tipped as the best back in March when I checked out all three traffic exchange blog widgets!

You can read the original testing results post I did here: -

Traffic Exchange Blog Widget

You can read more about why John has decided to close down BlogRush here: -

BlogRush

But the most important bit is if you haven’t already added the RealTrafficeXchange Widget from Jon Leger to your blog, then go get it done now: -

RealTrafficX.com

it’s been 7 months since my last post about blog traffic widgets and RealTrafficX is still getting me around 1% ctr across a range of blogs.

I mentioned sometime ago that I was going test out one or two CPA ad networks, including NeverBlue.

Unfortunately I kinda lost track of that test and only got around to re-visiting it in the last couple of weeks.

the good news is that it’s been a “minor” success…

just over 10 days ago I picked a couple of CPA offers from NeverBlue that looked suitable for a couple of my test blogs, one in the “Dating & Romance” niche and one in the “Autos” niche.

Here’s the stats for the last 10 days: -

NeverBlue CPA Ads

now here’s the important bit, the two blogs in question are both less than 3 months old and only have content being posted to them from the UniqueArticlesWizard.com plugin, so they’re “hands free” blogs for me.

I’ve finally added my themes to the BlogTactics Themes page, you can grab them here: -

Custom WP Blog Themes

I’ve also started posting a series of videos on how to use them, although I need to re-do a few of them for the latest version of WP, which may take a few days..

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