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Does EZA allow this

by grandstar
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I know that eza allows url forwarding for an affiliate link in your signature. Do they allow if I cloak my main url with bit.ly
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  • Profile picture of the author Erica Leggette
    it has to be a registered domain name I guess to keep down on spamming of affiliate links and what not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hamish Jones
    Why don't you ask the guys at Ezinearticles directly?

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  • Profile picture of the author bretski
    They basically want your link to go to a page that will have some content that will be useful to the reader. If your site has good content then you won't have a problem. If it's a cloaked affiliate link I think they'll bounce your article. A landing page or a sales page probably isn't going to cut it.

    My links on EZA used to go to my review pages on my site. After a while they started denying my articles so what I did was set up a WP blog with lots of good original and relevant content. They're cool with that and I think that readers like it more too. I know it would tick me off if I read an article and clicked on a link thinking that I was going to actually get more information on a topic and I got sent to a cloaked landing page.

    As a side note, I check my "recent visitors" in cpanel every once in a while and saw that EZA does a daily scan of my links. I'm not sure if they're looking to make sure that that the links are not broken or looking for redirects but they're there every day.
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  • Profile picture of the author grandstar
    Thanks guys for all your advise. They have already approved 2 of my articles but I did not use bit.ly. I used a .info.

    I just pray they accept all the rest
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Jennings
    I use cloaked links on almost all my EZA links -- and I can't imagine EVER using a bit.ly or anything else. What happens if they go out of the link-redirection business? All of the links in your articles are DOA!

    Use a cloaked link so you can track the traffic coming from your articles -- just make sure the redirect script is on YOUR site so you have ultimate control.

    I recommend Sonic Sneak - Link Cloaking and Tracking (which is my product).

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    • Profile picture of the author grandstar
      Originally Posted by Jay Jennings View Post

      I use cloaked links on almost all my EZA links -- and I can't imagine EVER using a bit.ly or anything else. What happens if they go out of the link-redirection business? All of the links in your articles are DOA!

      Use a cloaked link so you can track the traffic coming from your articles -- just make sure the redirect script is on YOUR site so you have ultimate control.

      I recommend Sonic Sneak - Link Cloaking and Tracking (which is my product).

      Jay Jennings
      About your link cloaking business... what if you go out of business haha
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      • Profile picture of the author Jay Jennings
        Originally Posted by grandstar View Post

        About your link cloaking business... what if you go out of business haha
        If you go out of business then you don't care where the dead links go to, so no big deal.

        Although if you have a lot of articles out there that are passively driving traffic to a site, you could probably find someone to take it off your hands for some nice change.

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        • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
          Originally Posted by Jay Jennings View Post

          If you go out of business then you don't care where the dead links go to, so no big deal.
          I think he was referring to you (Jay) going out of business if he used your cloaking service, in which case of course the result would be the same, DOA links.
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          • Profile picture of the author Jay Jennings
            Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

            I think he was referring to you (Jay) going out of business if he used your cloaking service, in which case of course the result would be the same, DOA links.
            Oh, I didn't get it because Sonic Sneak - Link Cloaking and Tracking runs on YOUR server, not mine.

            And Adsense Eliminator, which is my hosted version, comes with a script that runs on your server so that even in THAT case all links lead to your site first before anything else happens.

            Jay Jennings
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