---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM

stma · 08-01-2009, 09:16 AM

If You Promote Affiliate Products with Articles or Review Sites, How Much More Money Would You Make If You:

Knew EXACTLY which article view on which site produced a sale

Could easily test several products from the SAME LINK to see which sells best for you

COULD EASILY HIDE YOUR REFERRER

Magic Link Cloaker

THE Link Cloaker & More for Article & Review Site Marketers
(Works Great for Everyone Else Too!)

With Features Found in NO OTHER LINK CLOAKING SOFTWARE!

Please don't let the "link cloaker" bit fool you. I had to call it something after all, and yes, it does cloak (hide) your affiliate links with the best of them. But that's where the comparison ends. Magic Link Cloaker offers so much more, it truly is magic!

Very Important Unique Feature 1:

Magic Link Cloaker will, at your option for each product you promote, automatically create a Clickbank-compatible unique tracking ID (TID) for each visitor that clicks one of your redirected links. If a visitor buys the Clickbank product you're promoting, that tracking ID will be recorded in your Clickbank affiliate sales activity. You can then check the tracking IDs against the data stored in Magic Link Cloaker, and find out exactly which article view, on which web site, and the exact date, time, & IP address, that led to the sale.

Don't underestimate how powerful this is! Let's say you publish articles at both Directory A and Directory B. You find by using tracking IDs that Directory B frequently leads to sales, while Directory A almost never does. You don't really know why, as you publish the same articles at both places. Regardless of the reason, it would make sense for you to focus more effort on Directory B for increased profits. It might also be useful to change your article "style" or topics & see if sales generated from Directory A will improve. Point is, you can't do those things unless you know for sure exactly which article views are leading to sales.

Now imagine this scenario. What if another website uses one of your articles on their site, and all of a sudden you start getting a bunch of sales from that article? Wouldn't it be nice to know whether the sales are coming from the original article directory or the site that has used your article? Do you think you might want to approach that site owner to offer to write some unique content for them, to see if maybe it would lead to even more sales? If that site's readers responded so well to your content the first time, they may well do it again. But, unless you know where the sales came from, you wouldn't be able to follow through.

Very Important Unique Feature 2:

All link-cloaking software that I'm aware of will only let you redirect the visitor to one affiliate product. It's "one link leads to one affiliate product."

But what if you don't know which product to promote? Wouldn't you like to find out which product sells best for you, based on the articles you're writing, the style of those articles, and on which site the visitor finds your articles?

Well, with Magic Link Cloaker, you can do just that. Instead of a one-link-to-one-affiliate-product approach, Magic Link Cloaker, at your option, has the ability to create "one-link-to-many-affiliate-products" cloaked links.

Here's what I mean. Let's say you write five articles on dog training. There are 3 dog training products you want to promote, but you don't know which will sell best. Until now, you had to link to a single product from a single article resource box. To promote more than one product so you could see which sold best, you had to create another article with a link to that product. But that's not really a fair test, since the articles are different.

Now, with Magic Link Cloaker, you can create one cloaked link that appears in your article or your resource box that will randomly redirect visitors to multiple related products! In the above example, all of your articles will have the same cloaked link. When a visitor clicks on one of those links, they will be randomly redirected to one of your dog-training product affiliate links. Over time, you will likely see that one of those products sells better than the others, and you can then set the link to permanently redirect to that one product.

Essentially, you put related affiliate products into "groups" in Magic Link Cloaker, and by doing that you can test the products against each other to see which makes the most money for you.

This concept works with digital products, physical shipped products, any type of affiliate product you can think of. You can also use this concept to easily split-test your own squeeze pages, sales letters, pay-per-click campaigns, and even offline promotions. And yes, for EzineArticles, it will even work from a top-level domain! That's right - send visitors from an EZA article to a top-level domain, and redirect them from there to randomly selected but related affiliate products until you find out which product sells best for you.

Review / Conduit Site Marketers

I don't want to leave you out! Obviously if you're reviewing Product A, you don't want to send visitors that click on your Product A link to Product B instead. But, you do need to know which of your product review pages are leading to sales. Suppose you've reviewed Clickbank Product A on several different review sites of your own, plus Hub Pages, Squidoo Lenses, Blogger, etc. Even if you're already using a cloaking script at those places to hide your affiliate link, what you really need to know is which of those links is leading to SALES, not clicks. That way you can concentrate your efforts on what's producing the most profit for you, not just on getting more clicks.

Magic Link Cloaker sells at retail for at least $37, probably more. Check out the link cloaking scripts already on the market at $47-$97. None of them will do what Magic Link Cloaker does. For this WSO if you enter in the discount code "WSO" in the little box before the order button you can save an extra $12.50.

Magic Link Cloaker was originally developed by Jeff Hope. If you already purchased MLC (original url), Jeff will be contacting you shortly with instructions on how to get your upgrade to this new 2.1 version.

Do I Really Need Another Link Cloaking Script? Can't I Use One of the Free Ones?

Yes, there are a number of free web-based link cloaking services out there. I personally would never trust my business, my money-making links, to them though. They probably have the best plans & intentions, but

What if they went out of business?

What if they changed the rules & showed their ads to my visitors first?

What if someone who works there is snooping on my markets, keywords, & traffic?

I don't know about you, but it's just not worth the risk to me.

There are also already both free & paid link cloaking scripts out there that you host yourself, and they're fine for what they do. Most link cloaking scripts, whether free or paid:

Will show you the number of clicks from a given URL (the referring web page)

They let you set up a one-to-one redirect - meaning, this one link sends visitors to that one web page, always

Almost all of them require you to use a /go/ or /recommends/ in your URL

I know you've seen them - yourdomain.com/go/this-product/ or yourdomain.com/recommends/that-product/ . Let's face it, within the internet marketing world, even /go/ and /recommends/ are recognized by almost everyone as cloaked affiliate links.

Your new links can be VERY short. Something like: yourdomain.com/dogcollars

Why Magic Link Cloaker?

The existing self-hosted link cloaking scripts that I found are certainly better options in my view than the hosted services. But I wanted something more, something that would help me increase profits. So I created Magic Link Cloaker. I wanted to be able to:

Know which of my articles on which sites were sending me the most traffic

Know which of my articles were leading directly to Clickbank sales

Test multiple Clickbank products from a single link to see which products sold best for me

Redirect from a top level domain ( domain.com ) to comply with EzineArticles.com requirements, yet still have all the other features I wanted

Redirect from a real page on my site OR a single level "directory" - such as domain.com/product

Of course, I also wanted features that would be helpful to me as a marketer / webmaster:

Choose whether to be notified by email every time someone clicks on one of my redirect links

Subscribe to an RSS feed of my visitor click activity

Have an easy way to backup all my data without having to log in to Cpanel

Be able to export my visitor stats to a CSV file, so I could slice, dice, & graph in Excel or another spreadsheet

Magic Link Cloaker does all that & more!

Built In Summary Level reports run with one click

View all stats records individually

Delete stats record by time period

Set cookies for visitors who click on my link more than once, so they will see the same product they originally saw

MySQL for safe data storage

Can use for Adwords, all affiliate links, or just links where you want to track the number of clicks

Mass Load Redirect Links

The Warrior Special Offer:

Magic Link Cloaker Version 2.2 (currently at 2.1)will sell at retail for at least $67, probably more. Current customers will get the upgrade FREE! Check out the link cloaking scripts already on the market at $47-$97. None of them will do what Magic Link Cloaker does.

Warriors can go here to enter in the discount code to save even more ($additional 12.50 discount). Please enter in "wso" with out quotes into the box just before the order form!

stma · 08-01-2009, 09:47 AM

WARNING:

Just so you don't order again if you already have this. This was originally posted by Jeff Hope months and months ago (link above). Jeff will be mailing his clients with instructions on upgrading to the new version. Jeff doesn't have time to maintain this, upgrade it, etc... so I've taken over.

You can see what others had to say about the script there as well.

There are a number of new features in this version - namely I've squashed the few minor bugs that were in the script, added additional tracking options, added DMR(double meta refresh), and put in the framework for additional upgrades.

There are currently two versions of the script to download. One is for really paranoid people who want to attempt to hide even what group is getting sales from prying eyes, and the other is for those who aren't so paranoid

I expect several 2.x series upgrades that both Jeff's and my own customers will receive free.

Chucky · 08-01-2009, 10:23 AM

Hi Stma,

Very much interested because 90% of my income is from articles. And I have no clue which one makes me sales. How much work is there to get this thing up and running?

BTW, a few months ago I was going to get myself Prosper202 to do the same thing. But then I found out that you can't install it with Hostgator. Will there be such compatibility issues with this cloaker?

Thanks!
Chucky

stma · 08-01-2009, 10:35 AM

Chucky,

You shouldn't have any problems with any host. Nothing "crazy" going on so it should install anywhere.

There are install videos and textual directions on the site (magiclinkcloaker.com) but it's as simple as creating a database, editing a file, and uploading. I walk you through the whole thing with video if you've never done it before. If you get hung up on something - I'm there to help. I can't count how many scripts I've popped into and installed for folks

There is also a full support forum if you need general questions.

Nightengale · 08-01-2009, 10:55 AM

I'm a little confused. Your link goes to the original WSO, but the link in THAT WSO is broken.

Where can I get it and exactly what is the price? The original WSO says $10, but this WSO says something like $12.50 off of the original price of $67????

This is VERY confusing!

Michelle

stma · 08-01-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Nightengale

I'm a little confused. Your link goes to the original WSO, but the link in THAT WSO is broken.

Where can I get it and exactly what is the price? The original WSO says $10, but this WSO says something like $12.50 off of the original price of $67????

This is VERY confusing!

Michelle

I referenced the original wso because I don't want any of Jeff's original customers to order again. Since there were some bugs and improvements that needed to be made to the script I wanted to ensure they all got it. That's even why I kept the name the same instead of renaming it.
Beyond that you can ignore the original wso and any links inside it - all of Jeff's links are dead. If you were a customer of Jeff's - you will be getting an e-mail from him shortly.

The current price of Magic Link Cloaker is $37. The discount code gives you an additional $12.50 off. Use the links in this thread to see any installation instructions, training vids, tutorials, etc.. that you would like to see prior to ordering.

The "site" for magic link cloaker is: http://magiclinkcloaker.com/linkcloak/

stma · 08-01-2009, 11:20 AM

Michelle - ONE of the links in the post above WAS wrong - you aren't crazy.

I've fixed it

Nightengale · 08-01-2009, 11:50 AM

Thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate it!

Michelle

Success · 08-01-2009, 12:32 PM

Does it track referral urls?

stma · 08-01-2009, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Success

Does it track referral urls?

Absolutely -- with a few extra options as well for clickbank, shareasale, and pepperjam.

If you have: Myaffiliatelink.com/id?393939 your just fine - or any url for that matter.

With clickbank, shareasale, and pepperjam urls we take on a unique tracking id (sub id) with each click. That's very useful because say you publish an article and it gets picked up by a bunch of sites.

Using that tracking id you can see exactly where the sale are coming from. If you knew blog XYZ was publishing your articles and getting 90 percent of your sales wouldn't that be helpful? You could contact them and pay for advertising, do guest posts, or even build up their links a little more to pull that listing up in the rankings.

Success · 08-01-2009, 12:40 PM

Just to make sure we are on the same page...

I mean does it tells me the exact page url a click came from without using tid? Like server log referral urls. Thanks.

stma · 08-01-2009, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Success

Just to make sure we are on the same page...

I mean does it tells me the exact page url a click came from without using tid? Like server log referral urls. Thanks.

Yes.

And an additional level tracking for the networks I've added in already. I'll add more networks as I get requests for them.

Success · 08-01-2009, 01:06 PM

Thanks. Sounds great. I bought it already.

There are 2 download files. Any info on which to install?

"NO Double Meta Refresh."
"WITH Double Meta Refresh."

stma · 08-01-2009, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Success

Thanks. Sounds great! I bought it already.

There are 2 download files. Any info on which to install?

"NO Double Meta Refresh."
"WITH Double Meta Refresh."

The "With double meta refresh" will in most cases also blank the referring group - making it so folks can't even tell which one of your groups is sending them traffic.

Basically it's for the extra paranoid folks - both versions do the same thing otherwise.

Success · 08-01-2009, 01:31 PM

Let you know why I bought it without hesitation... It's the referring url+tid tracking ability.

The ability to know exactly which referring urls give you the clicks/sales is what many link cloaker don't provide. This feature is very useful. I own quite a few trackers and many of them overlook this.

stma · 08-01-2009, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Success

Let you know why I bought it without hesitation... It's the referring url+tid tracking ability.

The ability to know exactly which referring urls give you the clicks/sales is what many link cloaker don't provide. This feature is very useful. I own quite a few trackers and many of them overlook this.

Certainly let me know if you have any others you would like me to add. I put in the 2 networks I use regularly plus clickbank.

Coach Cheese · 08-01-2009, 02:08 PM

Hey Ed,

I bought this immediately. My financial advisors need to know exactly which of their articles and which directories actually result in clients who engage services, because lots of leads that are looky-lous suck up their time.

Also, I do have others I would LOVE to add, and I know how you handle your stuff, so I bought this. It's perfect for my major authority sites that I need to monetize while I'm getting leads through PPC.

Thanks for this. I'll be in touch about the network I would like to add.

steveniam · 08-01-2009, 08:10 PM

Just a question - when someone click on your clickbank affiliate link through your magic link cloaker, what will it show - vendor .com/?hop=affiliate or just vendor .com?

stma · 08-01-2009, 08:26 PM

It's going to add a unique tracking ID. For example: /?tid=22. That number changes each time so you can always see exactly what time, from where, and how the sale happened.

steveniam · 08-01-2009, 09:31 PM

Does it mean it will show www .vendor.com/?tid=22 instead of www .vendor.com/?hop=affiliate?

Quote:

Originally Posted by stma

It's going to add a unique tracking ID. For example: /?tid=22. That number changes each time so you can always see exactly what time, from where, and how the sale happened.

stma · 08-01-2009, 09:37 PM

This is a clickbank hoplink:

xxxxx.earth4.hop.clickbank.net

This is a clickbank hoplink with tracking in place:

xxxxx.earth4.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=33

Upon a sale Clickbank reports to you the TID where the sale comes from. You pop that TID number in MagicLinkCloaker and poof - it spits out all your data.

No hunting around, guessing, etc...

Note: You aren't limited to just clickbank.... you can use ANY affiliate url out there. It's just we do the extra step for CB, shareasale, and Pepperjam.

steveniam · 08-01-2009, 10:09 PM

I am more concerned what will show up in the browser.

Here is the clickbank hoplink:

xxxx://6e02bapcw2ysav92t7xguk0l7b.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=200

and the cloaked link maybe - xxx.mydomain.com/fatloss

When someone click it, will it will show up as:

xxxxx.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=affiliate or

xxxx.fatloss4idiots.com/?tid=200

Thank you

Quote:

Originally Posted by stma

This is a clickbank hoplink:

xxxxx.earth4.hop.clickbank.net

This is a clickbank hoplink with tracking in place:

xxxxx.earth4.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=33

Upon a sale Clickbank reports to you the TID where the sale comes from. You pop that TID number in MagicLinkCloaker and poof - it spits out all your data.

No hunting around, guessing, etc...

Note: You aren't limited to just clickbank.... you can use ANY affiliate url out there. It's just we do the extra step for CB, shareasale, and Pepperjam.

stma · 08-01-2009, 11:24 PM

Once you actually get redirected to clickbank - clickbank will do it's thing. There isn't a way to change what happens then.

In your example there you would end up at:

xxxxx.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=affiliate

Your "actual" link that Magic Link Cloaker generates would look like this:

yourdomain.com/whateveryounamedthegroup

Mifoxy · 08-02-2009, 03:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stma

Once you actually get redirected to clickbank - clickbank will do it's thing. There isn't a way to change what happens then.

In your example there you would end up at:

xxxxx.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=affiliate

Your "actual" link that Magic Link Cloaker generates would look like this:

yourdomain.com/whateveryounamedthegroup

There actually IS a way to bypass that

If your domain is domain.com/fatloss and the visitor clicks that link it will KEEP showing domain.com/fatloss in the browser instead of the redirected domain.

steveniam · 08-02-2009, 03:58 AM

I know. That's iframe which Clickbank TOS does not allow.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mifoxy

There actually IS a way to bypass that

If your domain is domain.com/fatloss and the visitor clicks that link it will KEEP showing domain.com/fatloss in the browser instead of the redirected domain.

Mifoxy · 08-02-2009, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by steveniam

I know. That's iframe which Clickbank TOS does not allow.

Otherwise there is no way to change it.
Send the vendor an email and ask them to change their hoplink redirect to their domain.com instead of domain.com/?hop=
It is possible, i have seen Clickbank sites what does that.

stma · 08-02-2009, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mifoxy

Otherwise there is no way to change it.
Send the vendor an email and ask them to change their hoplink redirect to their domain.com instead of domain.com/?hop=
It is possible, i have seen Clickbank sites what does that.

I wish they all did it - but most CB merchants don't. Since CB (and most networks) don't allow framing anymore I've skipped that part.

I've had a request or two though - so I'll probably add it in the next version.

Mifoxy · 08-02-2009, 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stma

I wish they all did it - but most CB merchants don't. Since CB (and most networks) don't allow framing anymore I've skipped that part.

I've had a request or two though - so I'll probably add it in the next version.

Maybe a checkbox will be the best choise.
Let the users choose themselves whether they want to use it or not

stma · 08-02-2009, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mifoxy

Maybe a checkbox will be the best choise.
Let the users choose themselves whether they want to use it or not

It would definitely be optional. To many places don't like it and/or break out of frames automatically unless you block javascript - and that could affect your commissions.

scorpio9 · 08-02-2009, 08:44 PM

I was considering joining gotrythis.com, how does your script compare to GTT2?

scorpio9

stma · 08-02-2009, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by scorpio9

I was considering joining gotrythis.com, how does your script compare to GTT2?

scorpio9

I'm going to be careful with my answer because I'm not a member or owner of GGT (1 or 2). It seems based on what I see on their page to really revolve around the fact that it creates a rss feed based on the links you put in there.

It's just a redirect tool that creates a RSS feed and can submit it a few places. If you want to market with feeds there are much easier ways than using your redirect feed... even if the "widgets" they generate look nice.

With feeds you need more than affiliate links to end up with sales - just dumping a lot of affiliate links into a feed won't turn into sales (promise) no matter where you submit them.

Now with that said - really dig through their features. Decide what you would actually end up using -- and if you think any of that stuff would result in actual "sales", income, or link juice for your other sites.

It wouldn't.

A redirect tool should focus on tracking, redirecting properly, using attractive links (yourdomain.com/singleword, and blanking referrers if that's what you want it to do. Anything else is just overkill that's going to distract you from what's important.

What's important is putting those redirect links in places that actually result in sales, and determining where to put more effort by fine tuning what your promoting/selling/marketing.

The rest of the things in GTT2 like the marketplace are just fluff. How much converting traffic will a "directory" of affiliate links or sales pages get? Not much.

O.K. I should stop there. Sounds like I'm badmouthing another service and that's not what I'm trying to do. You asked for a comparison and that's hard to do since Magic Link Cloaker focuses on one thing (what you need it to do) and GTT2 does do more. I just don't agree that it's effective.

Want a redirection tracking script? Get one that does just what you need (be it mine, theirs, or someone else). Want to market with RSS feeds - get a feed creation tool like RSS rebound (or I have free code for one in black hat digest). Heck if you "really" want to get easy with rss feeds use a base install of wordpress, make categories and use the feeds for each category. You'll get scraped and syndicated more often than anything else you do unless you jump over to the dark side a bit.

Success · 08-03-2009, 12:48 AM

Guys, this is worth buying.

Simple interface but the referring url + auto TID tracking combo is great. For every click, you get stats like the referring URL, IP address, Time of click and even an email notification if you want.

With auto TID, you do not need to set a TID for each of your Clickbank link. When you made a sale, you will know exactly which referring url and at what time you made the sale. This data alone can save you a lot of time and money.

Some suggestions.
- Option to add a prefix to the TID, so it don't mixed up with other TID we are using elsewhere, manually or with other softwares. For example, I can add a prefix like mlc, so when I see a TID like mlc12345, I know the TID is generated by this script. Should be easy to add.
- Timezone

stma · 08-03-2009, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Success

Guys, this is worth buying.

Some suggestions.
- Option to add a prefix to the TID, so it don't mixed up with other TID we are using elsewhere, manually or with other softwares. For example, I can add a prefix like mlc, so when I see a TID like mlc12345, I know the TID is generated by this script. Should be easy to add.
- Timezone

Great suggestion on the prefex - I'll add it to version 2.2. Probably a week out since I want to get a few more suggestions and add them all in at once.

What do you mean by timezone? It uses the 'time' your server uses so if things aren't matching up that's what you need to change. I'm not sure how you change the timezone for a shared server (probably have to contact their support) but if you have a vps or a shared server the option is inside WHM. It's "server time" on my servers. You can set it to whatever you prefer in there.

teleam · 08-05-2009, 05:29 PM

When I heard the name "Jeff Hope" I knew this would be a great tool. I have known Jeff for a number of years now. During the last year I have been in and out of hospitals that I haven't been active. I am raring to go now. Look for my order after I post this

Tom

vinku · 08-06-2009, 08:30 AM

Can i USE it with AzoogleAds ?

stma · 08-06-2009, 11:24 AM

You can use it with any link.

If your using one of the supported networks though we add on a layer of tracking. I'm not sure if azoogleads supports sub id tracking - if it does and it's requested I can add it in on the next update.

Success · 08-08-2009, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stma

Great suggestion on the prefex - I'll add it to version 2.2. Probably a week out since I want to get a few more suggestions and add them all in at once.

What do you mean by timezone? It uses the 'time' your server uses so if things aren't matching up that's what you need to change. I'm not sure how you change the timezone for a shared server (probably have to contact their support) but if you have a vps or a shared server the option is inside WHM. It's "server time" on my servers. You can set it to whatever you prefer in there.

I use dedicated server. I prefer to leave server time as it is for other sites. It would be good if there is an option to add or minus to the server time on the script. This feature is nice but not as important as the prefix.

stma · 08-15-2009, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Success

I use dedicated server. I prefer to leave server time as it is for other sites. It would be good if there is an option to add or minus to the server time on the script. This feature is nice but not as important as the prefix.

I'll see what I can do on the next update. Probably be a version or two away before this gets added though. The next update to be released has a few more built in tracking modules and the prefix idea.

MAV923 · 12-02-2009, 10:37 AM

Be very carefull with this guy, I have been trying to contact him with an issue for over a month...he does not reply to emails, posts on his own forum, or private messages here.

I am trying to contact him because in my opinion he is not doing what I paid him to do.

Of course this might get his attention.

Martin

08-01-2009, 09:16 AM	#1
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM If You Promote Affiliate Products with Articles or Review Sites, How Much More Money Would You Make If You: Knew EXACTLY which article view on which site produced a sale Could easily test several products from the SAME LINK to see which sells best for you COULD EASILY HIDE YOUR REFERRER Magic Link Cloaker THE Link Cloaker & More for Article & Review Site Marketers (Works Great for Everyone Else Too!) With Features Found in NO OTHER LINK CLOAKING SOFTWARE! Please don't let the "link cloaker" bit fool you. I had to call it something after all, and yes, it does cloak (hide) your affiliate links with the best of them. But that's where the comparison ends. Magic Link Cloaker offers so much more, it truly is magic! Very Important Unique Feature 1: Magic Link Cloaker will, at your option for each product you promote, automatically create a Clickbank-compatible unique tracking ID (TID) for each visitor that clicks one of your redirected links. If a visitor buys the Clickbank product you're promoting, that tracking ID will be recorded in your Clickbank affiliate sales activity. You can then check the tracking IDs against the data stored in Magic Link Cloaker, and find out exactly which article view, on which web site, and the exact date, time, & IP address, that led to the sale. Don't underestimate how powerful this is! Let's say you publish articles at both Directory A and Directory B. You find by using tracking IDs that Directory B frequently leads to sales, while Directory A almost never does. You don't really know why, as you publish the same articles at both places. Regardless of the reason, it would make sense for you to focus more effort on Directory B for increased profits. It might also be useful to change your article "style" or topics & see if sales generated from Directory A will improve. Point is, you can't do those things unless you know for sure exactly which article views are leading to sales. Now imagine this scenario. What if another website uses one of your articles on their site, and all of a sudden you start getting a bunch of sales from that article? Wouldn't it be nice to know whether the sales are coming from the original article directory or the site that has used your article? Do you think you might want to approach that site owner to offer to write some unique content for them, to see if maybe it would lead to even more sales? If that site's readers responded so well to your content the first time, they may well do it again. But, unless you know where the sales came from, you wouldn't be able to follow through. Very Important Unique Feature 2: All link-cloaking software that I'm aware of will only let you redirect the visitor to one affiliate product. It's "one link leads to one affiliate product." But what if you don't know which product to promote? Wouldn't you like to find out which product sells best for you, based on the articles you're writing, the style of those articles, and on which site the visitor finds your articles? Well, with Magic Link Cloaker, you can do just that. Instead of a one-link-to-one-affiliate-product approach, Magic Link Cloaker, at your option, has the ability to create "one-link-to-many-affiliate-products" cloaked links. Here's what I mean. Let's say you write five articles on dog training. There are 3 dog training products you want to promote, but you don't know which will sell best. Until now, you had to link to a single product from a single article resource box. To promote more than one product so you could see which sold best, you had to create another article with a link to that product. But that's not really a fair test, since the articles are different. Now, with Magic Link Cloaker, you can create one cloaked link that appears in your article or your resource box that will randomly redirect visitors to multiple related products! In the above example, all of your articles will have the same cloaked link. When a visitor clicks on one of those links, they will be randomly redirected to one of your dog-training product affiliate links. Over time, you will likely see that one of those products sells better than the others, and you can then set the link to permanently redirect to that one product. Essentially, you put related affiliate products into "groups" in Magic Link Cloaker, and by doing that you can test the products against each other to see which makes the most money for you. This concept works with digital products, physical shipped products, any type of affiliate product you can think of. You can also use this concept to easily split-test your own squeeze pages, sales letters, pay-per-click campaigns, and even offline promotions. And yes, for EzineArticles, it will even work from a top-level domain! That's right - send visitors from an EZA article to a top-level domain, and redirect them from there to randomly selected but related affiliate products until you find out which product sells best for you. Review / Conduit Site Marketers I don't want to leave you out! Obviously if you're reviewing Product A, you don't want to send visitors that click on your Product A link to Product B instead. But, you do need to know which of your product review pages are leading to sales. Suppose you've reviewed Clickbank Product A on several different review sites of your own, plus Hub Pages, Squidoo Lenses, Blogger, etc. Even if you're already using a cloaking script at those places to hide your affiliate link, what you really need to know is which of those links is leading to SALES, not clicks. That way you can concentrate your efforts on what's producing the most profit for you, not just on getting more clicks. Magic Link Cloaker sells at retail for at least $37, probably more. Check out the link cloaking scripts already on the market at $47-$97. None of them will do what Magic Link Cloaker does. For this WSO if you enter in the discount code "WSO" in the little box before the order button you can save an extra $12.50. Magic Link Cloaker was originally developed by Jeff Hope. If you already purchased MLC (original url), Jeff will be contacting you shortly with instructions on how to get your upgrade to this new 2.1 version. Do I Really Need Another Link Cloaking Script? Can't I Use One of the Free Ones? Yes, there are a number of free web-based link cloaking services out there. I personally would never trust my business, my money-making links, to them though. They probably have the best plans & intentions, but What if they went out of business? What if they changed the rules & showed their ads to my visitors first? What if someone who works there is snooping on my markets, keywords, & traffic? I don't know about you, but it's just not worth the risk to me. There are also already both free & paid link cloaking scripts out there that you host yourself, and they're fine for what they do. Most link cloaking scripts, whether free or paid: Will show you the number of clicks from a given URL (the referring web page) They let you set up a one-to-one redirect - meaning, this one link sends visitors to that one web page, always Almost all of them require you to use a /go/ or /recommends/ in your URL I know you've seen them - yourdomain.com/go/this-product/ or yourdomain.com/recommends/that-product/ . Let's face it, within the internet marketing world, even /go/ and /recommends/ are recognized by almost everyone as cloaked affiliate links. Your new links can be VERY short. Something like: yourdomain.com/dogcollars Why Magic Link Cloaker? The existing self-hosted link cloaking scripts that I found are certainly better options in my view than the hosted services. But I wanted something more, something that would help me increase profits. So I created Magic Link Cloaker. I wanted to be able to: Know which of my articles on which sites were sending me the most traffic Know which of my articles were leading directly to Clickbank sales Test multiple Clickbank products from a single link to see which products sold best for me Redirect from a top level domain ( domain.com ) to comply with EzineArticles.com requirements, yet still have all the other features I wanted Redirect from a real page on my site OR a single level "directory" - such as domain.com/product Of course, I also wanted features that would be helpful to me as a marketer / webmaster: Choose whether to be notified by email every time someone clicks on one of my redirect links Subscribe to an RSS feed of my visitor click activity Have an easy way to backup all my data without having to log in to Cpanel Be able to export my visitor stats to a CSV file, so I could slice, dice, & graph in Excel or another spreadsheet Magic Link Cloaker does all that & more! Built In Summary Level reports run with one click View all stats records individually Delete stats record by time period Set cookies for visitors who click on my link more than once, so they will see the same product they originally saw MySQL for safe data storage Can use for Adwords, all affiliate links, or just links where you want to track the number of clicks Mass Load Redirect Links The Warrior Special Offer: Magic Link Cloaker Version 2.2 (currently at 2.1)will sell at retail for at least $67, probably more. Current customers will get the upgrade FREE! Check out the link cloaking scripts already on the market at $47-$97. None of them will do what Magic Link Cloaker does. Warriors can go here to enter in the discount code to save even more ($additional 12.50 discount). Please enter in "wso" with out quotes into the box just before the order form!

08-01-2009, 09:47 AM	#2
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM WARNING: Just so you don't order again if you already have this. This was originally posted by Jeff Hope months and months ago (link above). Jeff will be mailing his clients with instructions on upgrading to the new version. Jeff doesn't have time to maintain this, upgrade it, etc... so I've taken over. You can see what others had to say about the script there as well. There are a number of new features in this version - namely I've squashed the few minor bugs that were in the script, added additional tracking options, added DMR(double meta refresh), and put in the framework for additional upgrades. There are currently two versions of the script to download. One is for really paranoid people who want to attempt to hide even what group is getting sales from prying eyes, and the other is for those who aren't so paranoid I expect several 2.x series upgrades that both Jeff's and my own customers will receive free.

08-01-2009, 10:23 AM	#3
Chucky Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA Posts: 911 Thanks: 234 Thanked 496 Times in 137 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Hi Stma, Very much interested because 90% of my income is from articles. And I have no clue which one makes me sales. How much work is there to get this thing up and running? BTW, a few months ago I was going to get myself Prosper202 to do the same thing. But then I found out that you can't install it with Hostgator. Will there be such compatibility issues with this cloaker? Thanks! Chucky

08-01-2009, 10:35 AM	#4
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Chucky, You shouldn't have any problems with any host. Nothing "crazy" going on so it should install anywhere. There are install videos and textual directions on the site (magiclinkcloaker.com) but it's as simple as creating a database, editing a file, and uploading. I walk you through the whole thing with video if you've never done it before. If you get hung up on something - I'm there to help. I can't count how many scripts I've popped into and installed for folks There is also a full support forum if you need general questions.

08-01-2009, 10:55 AM	#5
Nightengale Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: West Palm Beach, FL, USA. Posts: 1,425 Thanks: 299 Thanked 350 Times in 189 Posts Social Networking	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM I'm a little confused. Your link goes to the original WSO, but the link in THAT WSO is broken. Where can I get it and exactly what is the price? The original WSO says $10, but this WSO says something like $12.50 off of the original price of $67???? This is VERY confusing! Michelle

08-01-2009, 11:20 AM	#7
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Michelle - ONE of the links in the post above WAS wrong - you aren't crazy. I've fixed it

08-01-2009, 11:50 AM	#8
Nightengale Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: West Palm Beach, FL, USA. Posts: 1,425 Thanks: 299 Thanked 350 Times in 189 Posts Social Networking	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate it! Michelle

08-01-2009, 12:32 PM	#9
Success HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: , , . Posts: 363 Thanks: 1 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Does it track referral urls?

08-01-2009, 12:40 PM	#11
Success HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: , , . Posts: 363 Thanks: 1 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Just to make sure we are on the same page... I mean does it tells me the exact page url a click came from without using tid? Like server log referral urls. Thanks.

08-01-2009, 01:06 PM	#13
Success HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: , , . Posts: 363 Thanks: 1 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Thanks. Sounds great. I bought it already. There are 2 download files. Any info on which to install? "NO Double Meta Refresh." "WITH Double Meta Refresh."

08-01-2009, 01:31 PM	#15
Success HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: , , . Posts: 363 Thanks: 1 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Let you know why I bought it without hesitation... It's the referring url+tid tracking ability. The ability to know exactly which referring urls give you the clicks/sales is what many link cloaker don't provide. This feature is very useful. I own quite a few trackers and many of them overlook this.

08-01-2009, 02:08 PM	#17
Coach Cheese Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: , , . Posts: 734 Thanks: 9 Thanked 20 Times in 18 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Hey Ed, I bought this immediately. My financial advisors need to know exactly which of their articles and which directories actually result in clients who engage services, because lots of leads that are looky-lous suck up their time. Also, I do have others I would LOVE to add, and I know how you handle your stuff, so I bought this. It's perfect for my major authority sites that I need to monetize while I'm getting leads through PPC. Thanks for this. I'll be in touch about the network I would like to add.

08-01-2009, 08:10 PM	#18
steveniam Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,163 Thanks: 119 Thanked 58 Times in 51 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Just a question - when someone click on your clickbank affiliate link through your magic link cloaker, what will it show - vendor .com/?hop=affiliate or just vendor .com?

08-01-2009, 08:26 PM	#19
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM It's going to add a unique tracking ID. For example: /?tid=22. That number changes each time so you can always see exactly what time, from where, and how the sale happened.

08-01-2009, 09:37 PM	#21
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM This is a clickbank hoplink: xxxxx.earth4.hop.clickbank.net This is a clickbank hoplink with tracking in place: xxxxx.earth4.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=33 Upon a sale Clickbank reports to you the TID where the sale comes from. You pop that TID number in MagicLinkCloaker and poof - it spits out all your data. No hunting around, guessing, etc... Note: You aren't limited to just clickbank.... you can use ANY affiliate url out there. It's just we do the extra step for CB, shareasale, and Pepperjam.

08-01-2009, 11:24 PM	#23
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Once you actually get redirected to clickbank - clickbank will do it's thing. There isn't a way to change what happens then. In your example there you would end up at: xxxxx.fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=affiliate Your "actual" link that Magic Link Cloaker generates would look like this: yourdomain.com/whateveryounamedthegroup

08-02-2009, 08:44 PM	#30
scorpio9 VRE Constructor War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland. Posts: 669 Thanks: 146 Thanked 123 Times in 79 Posts Social Networking	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM I was considering joining gotrythis.com, how does your script compare to GTT2? scorpio9

08-03-2009, 12:48 AM	#32
Success HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: , , . Posts: 363 Thanks: 1 Thanked 19 Times in 19 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Guys, this is worth buying. Simple interface but the referring url + auto TID tracking combo is great. For every click, you get stats like the referring URL, IP address, Time of click and even an email notification if you want. With auto TID, you do not need to set a TID for each of your Clickbank link. When you made a sale, you will know exactly which referring url and at what time you made the sale. This data alone can save you a lot of time and money. Some suggestions. - Option to add a prefix to the TID, so it don't mixed up with other TID we are using elsewhere, manually or with other softwares. For example, I can add a prefix like mlc, so when I see a TID like mlc12345, I know the TID is generated by this script. Should be easy to add. - Timezone

08-05-2009, 05:29 PM	#34
teleam HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Baltimore, MD , USA. Posts: 422 Thanks: 31 Thanked 22 Times in 20 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM When I heard the name "Jeff Hope" I knew this would be a great tool. I have known Jeff for a number of years now. During the last year I have been in and out of hospitals that I haven't been active. I am raring to go now. Look for my order after I post this Tom

08-06-2009, 08:30 AM	#35
vinku HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 120 Thanks: 3 Thanked 10 Times in 10 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Can i USE it with AzoogleAds ?

08-06-2009, 11:24 AM	#36
stma Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: , , USA. Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 101 Times in 54 Posts Contact Info	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM You can use it with any link. If your using one of the supported networks though we add on a layer of tracking. I'm not sure if azoogleads supports sub id tracking - if it does and it's requested I can add it in on the next update.

12-02-2009, 10:37 AM	#39
MAV923 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 144 Thanks: 37 Thanked 21 Times in 18 Posts	Re: ---> MAGIC LINK CLOAKER <--- ARTICLE MARKETERS DREAM Be very carefull with this guy, I have been trying to contact him with an issue for over a month...he does not reply to emails, posts on his own forum, or private messages here. I am trying to contact him because in my opinion he is not doing what I paid him to do. Of course this might get his attention. Martin