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Forwarding With Masking Vs Forwarding Without Any Difference?

by Jon Tees
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If you purchase a functional/catchy domain name that you simply plan to forward to an affiliate product is it better to use masking so that returning customers might better remember your domain name specifically for repeat business or would it not really make a difference if you just forwarded it without the masking.
#difference #forwarding #masking
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Hi Jon,

    If you're redirecting a domain-name to a Hoplink, I'd strongly advise you to use masking.

    Originally Posted by Jon Tees View Post

    so that returning customers might better remember your domain name specifically for repeat business
    Not entirely for that reason, if the domain's redirected anyway. But because it looks better, from the customer's perspective, when they type in or click on yourdomain.com, if it appears to resolve to "yourdomain.com" rather than to a very long and (to some) suspicious-looking and hard-to-understand affiliate-link
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    • Profile picture of the author raywarrior1978
      Masking a url used to sound so complicated for me, now is soooo easy.

      If anyone wants step by step instructions on how to do this let me know and I will post it here.

      That is the only thing that I have learn how to do well, lol.

      Maybe I should offer that as a gig on fiverr.
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  • Profile picture of the author webted1
    Do masked domains get ranked on google?
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