Master Cloaking Your Links – Day 4 Make Money Online

Today is Day 4 of my spine-tingling series of making money online!

And for today, I'm going to focus upon:

Cloaking…..your links.

My gosh, please!

One of the ways lots of newbie Internet affiliate marketers are losing money hand over earlobe is by leaving uncloaked links on their site, ie, stuff like:

lingstar.seoprofits.hop.clickbank.net

The above link is a clickbank link.

• The first component is the affiliate.
• The second component is the vendor.

And if I'm a Clickbank affiliate meself, I can simply substitute in *my* affiliate ID…and steal *your* affiliate commissions.

Not good at all!

One way to prevent unscrupulous peoples from stealing your commissions is to cloak your links.  I

And here's  how you do it.

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Option 1.)  Use a 4 line php redirect to cloak your links

Take this affiliate link.

• lingstar.wpgoldmine.hop.clickbank.net/
  

Now,  because you're a smart savvy person, you can hover your mouse over said link and see that's it's Clickbankable!

But!

Check out link instead.

• www.barbaraling.com/learnmore/wpgoldmine.php
  

It goes to the same place!

The file, "wpgoldmine.php", simply is:

(?php
$URL="lingstar.wpgoldmine.hop.clickbank.net/";
header ("Location: $URL");
?)

(replace the parenthesis with greater-than/less-than signs)

By using this technique, I effectively cloaked my link….woot!

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Option 2.)  Use free WordPress Link-cloaking plugins

There's several free WordPress plugins like:

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/affiliate-link-cloaking/
• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/
• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-affiliate-links-cloaker/

and also paid ones like

• ninja.barbaraling.com
  

That brings me to the next link-cloaking possibility:

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Option 3.)  Use sub-domain redirects to cloak links!

Notice that link above?

I'm using a sub-domain off of BarbaraLing.com!

• How to cloak your links with Cpanel Redirects
  

explains this nicely.  🙂

Remember, gentle reader…

Making money online is a very serious business….and you owe it to yourself to protect your affiliate commissions as much as possible.

Doing the above is a grand way to begin!

This concludes Day 4 of making money online – so far, we've seen:

• Make Money Online – Before You Begin.
• Day 1 of Make Money Online – Take A Good Look At Yourself
• Day 2 – Time Management
  
• Day 3 – Master Google Search
  

Tune in tomorrow for our next lesson – the schedule is:

• Before You Begin (that's today!)
• Day 1 – Take a Good Look At Yourself
• Day 2 – Understand Time Management
• Day 3 – Master Google Search
• Day 4 – Master Cloaking Links
• Day 5 – Define Your Launchpage

See you then!

Grow strong,

Barbara Ling