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what is it important to cloak url of site to affiliate promotion of site.
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  • Profile picture of the author GMD
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    Originally Posted by leeakki View Post

    what is it important to cloak url of site to affiliate promotion of site.
    Could you please phrase your question in the form of a comprehensible sentence?
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  • Profile picture of the author shawoon98
    Affiliate links look ugly. Cloaking is done to reduce the ugliness. Another reason of cloaking is to show the visitors that you are not an affiliate of the product you are talking about. Because it's a human nature not to give credits to others.

    Cloaking is a proven method of higher conversion. There are many softwares in the market. Don't go for free softwares. I heard complaints of missing commissions.

    Pretty Link Lite is a free cloaking plugin for Wordpress that's working well for me. SEO Ultimate plugin also has a built in cloaking functionality.

    I hope that helps. Thanks.
    -M. Bari
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  • Profile picture of the author lucky31
    Cloaking makes your affiliate link shorter and nicer to look and it will increase the chances of more income for you as buyer can't see that you are using affiliate link or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author James.N
    Also to Shawoon's point...a lot of times if people know you're affiliate to a product you lose credibility. At that point they just assume you're only promoting it because you make money off it. It could be the best product in the world and you could whole-heartedly believe in the product but it won't matter.
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