Cloaking, What exactly is it and should I be worried about it

futuremills · 08-02-2009, 07:40 PM

Reading threads on the board i notice ppl talking about "cloaking" their links. I am going to design my first affiliate site sometime soon and i want to have someone briefly explain cloaking and if its something i need to worry about

CDawson · 08-02-2009, 07:43 PM

cloaking can me 2 different things, you can cloak your affiliate links to smaller links or you can hide them all together when someone hovers their mouse over the link. In my opinion more and more people are learning about clickbank (people who don't do IM) and just shrug it off when they see it, if you were to use somthing like tinyurl then it would not show blahblah.clickbank.net on it it would show tinyurl4352345235.com or something similar, hope this answered your question.

Adam B · 08-02-2009, 07:46 PM

Theres 2 types of cloaking, cloaking links so that others cant see your affilaite id and cloaking to increase your sites position in the serach engines. i did a video mentioning cloaking on my youtube chanel its on the "white hat vs black hat" video.

johnjimat · 08-02-2009, 08:26 PM

cloaking to prevent someone from replacing your name with their name. it look more professional if you cloak your affiliate link because some people will actually hate to see the affiliate link in their browser

08-02-2009, 07:40 PM	#1
futuremills HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: SoCal/NY/MD Posts: 413 Thanks: 118 Thanked 15 Times in 15 Posts	Cloaking, What exactly is it and should I be worried about it Reading threads on the board i notice ppl talking about "cloaking" their links. I am going to design my first affiliate site sometime soon and i want to have someone briefly explain cloaking and if its something i need to worry about

08-02-2009, 07:43 PM	#2
CDawson old username "IMbeginner" War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: ladson, South Carolina Posts: 579 Thanks: 4 Thanked 52 Times in 35 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Cloaking, What exactly is it and should I be worried about it cloaking can me 2 different things, you can cloak your affiliate links to smaller links or you can hide them all together when someone hovers their mouse over the link. In my opinion more and more people are learning about clickbank (people who don't do IM) and just shrug it off when they see it, if you were to use somthing like tinyurl then it would not show blahblah.clickbank.net on it it would show tinyurl4352345235.com or something similar, hope this answered your question.
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08-02-2009, 07:46 PM	#3
Adam B HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: , , United Kingdom. Posts: 284 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts Social Networking	Re: Cloaking, What exactly is it and should I be worried about it Theres 2 types of cloaking, cloaking links so that others cant see your affilaite id and cloaking to increase your sites position in the serach engines. i did a video mentioning cloaking on my youtube chanel its on the "white hat vs black hat" video.
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08-02-2009, 08:26 PM	#4
johnjimat Warrior Mania Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 92 Thanks: 15 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts Social Networking	Re: Cloaking, What exactly is it and should I be worried about it cloaking to prevent someone from replacing your name with their name. it look more professional if you cloak your affiliate link because some people will actually hate to see the affiliate link in their browser