Link Cloaking
Posted on January 25th, 2009 in General, Internet Marketing Internet Marketing, link cloaker
Everybody is talking about affiliate link theft. How supposedly, everybody who doesn’t use a cloaker is getting ripped off. Personally, I don’t believe it all that much. I mean whoever does it would have to have affiliate accounts at all of your networks.
Of course, everybody can get a clickbank ID, and substitute theirs for yours, so they’re buying the product for 25 to 50 percent of the retail price. They are still spending. Of course, in the internet marketing niche I would assume it happens at a higher rate than other niches, only because we all have clickbank IDs and some, very few, of the products do actually work. There is much simpler way of doing it though, just get your wife or sibling or anybody to buy it from your link. I mean you can email them link, so how hard can it be?
Now in terms of esthetics, those affiliate links do look crappy. Then again who looks at the bottom left of their browser so much. We are all in the Internet Marketing niche, so we are aware of it. But if you’re talking about an average Joe/Jane looking for hosting or their first domain name or anything else, they aren’t checking out the bottom left of their browser, and if they do, they just think its “computer code”, nor are they offended by long screwy affiliate links.
They don’t care!!
I didn’t care 3 years ago when I didn’t know what anything other than email and surfing were.
Now I never used a cloaker, until now. I figure I’m going to check it out here and on some other blogs I’m building. So I bought one of those WP Affiliate Link Cloaking plugin on ClickBank. Well, quite frankly, it sucked. In fact I’m asking for a refund on Monday. I tried a free software my partner sent me but I decided to just redirect at the server level, a friend of mine set it up, and it doesn’t cost me anything.
I want to see if there is any difference in my clickbank income for the next month or so. Its not that much to begin with, so the results may be slanted just by any increase in traffic this blog gets, if it gets any increase.
I’ll let you know how it turns out
Here a little test. Here a link to a list of Motivational Ebooks, I figure with the economy the way it is you might want to check them out.
