Affiliate Links - How to cloak and track conversions

by extrasam

Posted: 12 years ago 18 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hiding or cloaking your affiliate links seems to be a recommended practice and there are many ways to accomplish that. But tracking clicks on those cloaked links seems to be a bit challenging.

How to do you guys approach this?

#affiliate #cloak #conversions #links #track

bizoppmaster 12 years ago

Use Prosper202 or CPVlab to cloak and track. Hit me up on Skype for more info: jon.mac303.
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Outsourcingnerd 12 years ago

I use Cloak.FM for my WordPress sites - works like a charm. Is for sale here in the forum.
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UMS 12 years ago

If you are using WordPress, then the best option is to use the Pretty Links Lite plugin (free).
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Bevo Troy 12 years ago

You can cloak using Bevo Media as well. Let me know if you need any help and I can walk you through the process!
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- DJL 12 years ago
  
  I have used the WordPress free plugin "Simple URLs" a few times, and it might be what you need.
  
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Kragsig 12 years ago

I have tried many plugins for cloaking. This is definetely the one you should hang out with:

WordPress › Affiliate Link Cloaking « WordPress Plugins

Yihaa!

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- atwellpub 12 years ago
  
  This is how we are doing it with WP Traffic Tools:
  
  Link Masking & Link Cloaking & Shortening Links...
  
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MarketingMinded 12 years ago

I use Pretty Links. It's legit.
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junesimmons 12 years ago

i heard pretty links is pretty good and easy to use
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tumichael 12 years ago

Can we use adf.ly to cloak CB links? When ppl click it, we earn some cents too. How about bit.y or tinyurl? I am just confused what differs them to be the best cloaking links
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Dan Grossman 12 years ago

Improvely has built-in affiliate link cloaking, as well as multiple source attribution tracking. That is, it can tell you that someone first found you through an ad, then came back to your site a week later from a blog review, then searched the name of your site the next day on Google before making the purchase.
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Jessica Lynn 12 years ago

I love LinkTrackr for just this. There's a monthly fee but it works well and comes with reporting.
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- Cram 12 years ago
  
  This is a month old and sure the OP has it figured out.
  As for how i cloak and track my conversion i like using bevo. You have the option to cloak and SSL your links.
  
  And having multiple offers on my lander it can be done here.
  
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Krbender 12 years ago

Which online tracking platform do you think is most user friendly?
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Krbender 12 years ago

I've used several, paid, free, etc....trying to find best/or should I say better and stick with it!
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JoeyElmore 12 years ago

I've recently used bitly and it works well. Depends on what your goal is and how detailed you want the tracking to be.
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- Krbender 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JoeyElmore
  
  I've recently used bitly and it works well. Depends on what your goal is and how detailed you want the tracking to be.
  
  Hi, I've used that as well but looking for bit more. Thanks!
  
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- happili 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JoeyElmore
  
  I've recently used bitly and it works well. Depends on what your goal is and how detailed you want the tracking to be.
  
  Hi JoeyElmore,
  
  Can we use bitly when uploading videos to Youtube... since you are using it. Any idea if Youtube allows using bitly (URL link) on their site? Comments from other members are welcome too.
  
  Thanks.
  
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