If you’ve been around me for more than a few minutes you probably already know I’m a big proponent of cloaking your links.<\/p>\n
Not necessarily to slow down link-hijackers — that’s just a fringe benefit. The main reason is so you can know where your traffic is coming from.<\/b><\/p>\n
Plus, by cloaking your links you are able to change the redirect (where the link sends the person who clicked) at the drop of a hat. Why would you want to do that? Let me give you a real-world example.<\/p>\n
I like to promote products and services that have an affiliate program, but if the “best” option doesn’t have one, I’m not going to promote the second choice just so I can make a commission.<\/p>\n
NameCheap<\/a>, for example, is where I register all my new domain names. They don’t have an affiliate program so I make nothing by promoting them, but I think they’re the best.<\/p>\n However, I still cloak the link when I promote them because one day they may start an affiliate program and all I have to do to capitalize on all the links I’ve used for them is to change the redirect to use my new affiliate link.<\/p>\n Voila!<\/i> Instant affiliate links — in all the forum posts, blogs, articles, ebooks, special reports — everywhere that I’ve promoted NameCheap<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today I found out my link to HostGator (my absolute favorite web site hosting provider)<\/a> was not working because of a problem with my Commission Junction account. I still don’t know what that problem is, but in about 15 seconds I had the HostGator-generated affiliate link in place — so all the links out there are once again going to HostGator<\/a> via my affiliate link.<\/p>\n If you’re not cloaking ALL your links you’re in danger of losing a lot of money. And don’t rely on a 3rd-party link cloaker such as bit.ly or tinyurl — you need something YOU control<\/b>. Those other guys could go out of business at any time and then your links are toast.<\/p>\n The best all-around link cloaker\/tracker<\/b> on the market is my Sonic Sneak<\/a>. It’s web-based so you can use it from any location, even when you’re on the road without your laptop. Second choice is my Cloak and Tracker<\/a> software which runs on Windows and Mac.<\/p>\n Whichever one you like, get one and put it in place right away<\/b>. Cloak your links starting today and you don’t have to worry what happens down the road — you can change the destination for all your links in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve been around me for more than a few minutes you probably already know I’m a big proponent of cloaking your links. Not necessarily to slow down link-hijackers — that’s just a fringe benefit. The main reason is so you can know where your traffic is coming from. Plus, by cloaking your links you are able to change the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}