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You might have heard that increasing exposure to your business is the best way to increase walk-in sales to your business online, but you also might have heard that Link cloaking increase your sales by up to 400% or something of similar.

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Imagine the situation. A visitors comes into a website and want to buy a book. Now, you need to get into the mindset of the visitors when click through to check out the product, and all of a sudden they see an stupid link with a stupid Long 20-character affiliate URLs.

Any newbies, once seen a blatant affiliate link, more probably think that you’re only promoting a product for it’s high commissions and think twice whether to buy or not.

Thus, if the newbies recognize the affiliate link, then chances are the internet expert will recognize too. Here, the reason why you need to disguise your links by making them a simple short snippet such as…

http://www.yoursite.com/referral.php?id=34573 could be redirected into http://www.yoursite.com/name-product/

My Recommend Three Affiliate Cloaking Tool

Anyway, how can you increase your earnings? How can you make a cloak affiliate link? There are a lot of choices out there, but I put my favourites, top-performing three.

The TinyURL re-direct. Free, and quick, it has no server demands, the downside is that if the site will close definitely, you lose all the affiliate link.

The PHP re-direct. Free and effective, though it requires your own server to upload said PHP file to.

The Wordpress Link Cloack - I’ve already said how I prefer to use Wordpress Link Cloack. Last month, I finally overcome inertia to try this plugin. The reason why I prefer than other is because I’d rather pay more for a plugin that I know does quality work and I have full control over where my links go and what they do, than make using service that could close from one day to another.

You can use link-cloaking in your blog, e-mail campaigns, on forums, wherever you want to promote your affiliate offers. If you believe me - If you do not want losing a part of your online profits I reccomend to do so.