Do i should to cloak my clickbank hoplinks?

[camrodri]

Hi guys.

I´ve been working almost 6 months as an affiliate with clickbank, i´ve hear some things about as a Clickbank affiliate, you shoul cloak your hoplinks to avoid problems with inescrupolous people.

What do you think, should i do that, and if so, how can i do that in a easy way.

Thanks guys

[John Piteo]

Yes, you should do it.

Here's one way...

1.Make a new page in Dreamweaver or other html editor with a php extension.

2.Remove all the html code so the page is blank. (not really necessary but you don’t need the html.)

3.Name the page using the merchant’s name or something similar. Don’t name it redirect as others may figure it out. What ever you name this page will be visible in the task bar.
example: www.YourSite.com/Vonage.php


Make a simple PHP redirect using the code below

<?php    
 header('Location:http://www.AffiliateLink.com');
 ?>

Upload your new page to your server and point to the new page with a link that you want your visitors to click.

Don't write this code in Word or copy from a Word document because Word does something funky with the quote marks and the link won't work.

Hope this helps

[jaggyjay]

Yes, IMHO, you should.

There are plenty of scripts and software available for that. Check out affiliate cloner. If you want something free of cost, then check out the scripts over at HotScripts dot com. Also, search the forum here as there are plenty of knowledgeable posts that can guide you on how to cloak your links using PHP.

Best!
- Jay

[Alexa Smith]

I don't understand any of these technological ways of doing it, and I'm certainly not building a page in "Dreamweaver" (whatever that is) to do it, so I just do it the easy way: buy a dot-info domain-name for about $1 and forward it with masking from the registrar to my hoplink (so that it doesn't show) and use that as my affiliate-link. Even a technophobic incompetent like me can manage it that way.

[brchap]

I do this over on my website in the same fashion that John described. It seems to work well. One of the nice things about this is the ability to also put some Google tracking code in this "empty" file so that I can track my affiliate clickthroughs in Google Analytics.

Tracking my clickthroughs in Analytics lets me compare the numbers that Clickbank gives me to the numbers that Google gives me. But, I don't always use CB, so another benefit is keeping all of my click "numbers" in one place.

I've heard some shady things about CB lately. Of course if CB wanted to really be unscrupulous, they could always count the clicks but not the sales. But, nonetheless, tracking my clickthroughs gives me a quick glance at what is selling well.

[camrodri]

thank you guys for all your help, i´m gonna start to find some tool to Cloak my affiliate link.