Comments on: Link Cloaking - Paranoia or Necessity? http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2009/05/07/link-cloaking-paranoia-or-necessity/ New and Classic Tools, Information, Advice and Discussion on Internet Marketing Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:07:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Stephen Spry http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2009/05/07/link-cloaking-paranoia-or-necessity/#comment-975 Stephen Spry Wed, 13 May 2009 22:21:00 +0000 http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2009/05/07/link-cloaking-paranoia-or-necessity/#comment-975 I recently subscribed to an affiliate marketing newsletter from Willie Crawford, one of the biggest people in the IM world... Interesting that the very first item in the series was about cloaking your affiliate links! Two reasons Willie put forward for using software to manage your cloaked redirect affiliate links are... (and I quote): <blockquote>1. You will have control over your link. Imagine posting your link in hundreds of places and if for any reason there is ever a change to your affiliate link, you will have to track down all those links and change them manually. 2. If someone puts links to an affiliate programs main domain in spam emails, and there are enough complaints, that domain can get blacklisted. That means when YOU send an email with an affiliate link from that domain in it, that email will not get through. However, if that same email used redirect links (not even mentioning the primary domain of the affiliate program) your email will get through.</blockquote> More food for thought so you can get your affiliate links organised properly from the start! I recently subscribed to an affiliate marketing newsletter from Willie Crawford, one of the biggest people in the IM world…

Interesting that the very first item in the series was about cloaking your affiliate links! Two reasons Willie put forward for using software to manage your cloaked redirect affiliate links are… (and I quote):

1. You will have control over your link. Imagine posting your link in hundreds of places and if for any reason there is ever a change to your affiliate link, you will have to track down all those links and change them manually.
2. If someone puts links to an affiliate programs main domain in spam emails, and there are enough complaints, that domain can get blacklisted. That means when YOU send an email with an affiliate link from that domain in it, that email will not get through. However, if that same email used redirect links (not even mentioning the primary domain of the affiliate program) your email will get through.

More food for thought so you can get your affiliate links organised properly from the start!

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