Protecting Your Affiliate Links

If you are an Internet Marketer and your job is making money on the internet you are probably paid with commission or with full profit. Most Internet Marketers make profit with the use of commissions through affiliate links. If you need to protect your affiliate links you need to use link cloaking software.

Because each product has an affiliate ID it is very important that you protect your affiliate links. By giving each product or affiliate an ID, it is ensured that there is a track of the sales.

Commissions can be easily lost: the affiliate ID is found at the end of the URL so if somebody makes a mistake when copying your URL, you will not get any commission.

Another way to lose commissions is when somebody uses their own id instead of yours. This is a very common thing because other affiliate marketers are always searching for products. If they find a product they want they can search for the program you are using to sell or if they are members they can change your affiliate ID with their own. So, in this case, you are the one who loses commission.

If you are like me, then you also probably do the following. Before I go to any link, I place my mouse over the link and see where it is going to send me. Then, I make a decision if I am going to click on this link. Others do this as well. Some people will not click on the link if they know it is an affiliate program. You need to protect your affiliate link in this case as well.

If you want to protect the link you need to use link cloaking software. The link cloaking software will hide your affiliate links or, if you wish, it will redirect your affiliate link. The ways of cloaking are various and this depends on the cloaking program.

The best way I have seen is the link cloaking software that will place the affiliate web page still inside your own web page. This is extremely useful for building trust. People online then will see the link goes to your own web page, and then still keeps them on your website. They are much more likely to click that link.

Also, keep in mind that the affiliate link is hidden on the new page and this makes it hard for people to steal it and use it in their own benefit.

Both of these cases are possible to overcome with the use of link cloaking software. It is professional looking software, and many people online will never know you are using it. If you are using affiliate links to sell products online, then using link cloakers is a must.