When it comes to affiliate advertising and marketing I’m sure you realize that the links that are provided to you by the owners of the product are typically large and ugly. This is needless to say a primary reason that cloaking your affiliate link will be so essential in order to improve your click through rate on those links. There are different methods that people can actually use to cloak their affiliate links and you are going to discover that certain methods will be far more effective than other methods. These different techniques of cloaking your affiliate links are something we are going to be speaking about in the following paragraphs to allow you to know which methods you need to actually be using.

Plenty of folks don’t realize the importance of cloaking an affiliate link but you need to comprehend that when men and women see a long link they are less apt to click on it. Obviously when your affiliate link is cloaked it’s going to be much shorter and men and women will have more of an inclination to in fact click on the link to go to your affiliate page. For individuals who are experienced in cloaking your affiliate links I am certain you realize that there are ways to make it look like people aren’t clicking away from your web site to be able to get to the product page.

I’m certain quite a lot of you have heard of a web site generally known as tinyURL or bit.ly, and these are actually two ways you are able to wind up shortening an affiliate link. Simply because these services are extremely well known for people that want to cloak affiliate links many people will see a link with these in them and still avoid them. While you can make use of these services and they might end up generating a couple more clicks, in most cases this is not the very best way to cloak your links.

One of the best ways to end up cloaking affiliate links is by carrying out this with your very own domain name and utilizing sub domains to redirect the affiliate link. You will need your own hosting account to accomplish this and you are going to want to ensure that you have the ability to generate unlimited sub domains on this account. When you generate a sub domain you’re allowed to redirect this domain to any web page you want and this would include affiliate links, so when you make a good looking sub domain you are going to end up getting more clicks. If you don’t yet comprehend how powerful this can be, if you take a look at this URL, http://painlesstraffic.obett.com, this URL will in fact lead you to an affiliate page but it does not look like an affiliate link.

By now you ought to understand how important it’s to cloak your affiliate links if you want to make sure that you are receiving more clicks. You are going to also discover that this will be something which is extremely helpful for individuals using e-mail marketing because if you place a long affiliate link in an e-mail it could wind up getting broken.

Robin Marks also writes on a other topics in the direct selling and affiliate marketing industry including the 5linx Scam and how to market the Send Out Cards business.