Cloaking Links has been the subject of many email questions lately so I thought I would take the time to teach you what it is. I want to give you a basic idea of what link cloaking is, why it should be used, and how you can use it to protect your profits.



In a nutshell link cloaking is where you link to an affiliate site but to visitors it appears that they are still on your blog. You might think that it is the old "bait and switch" tactic but there you would be wrong. Unlike bait and switch, link cloaking is not designed to cheat a customer out of their money rather it is designed to protect your money.

Some people think of link cloaking as a black hat SEO tactic these people usually don't grasp what it actually is while it can be used to less than honorable reasons it is in actuality a tool that can be used by legitimate affiliate marketers to protect their profit.

There are a few reasons that you might want to use link cloaking on your website. Cloak N Rotate gives you all of these features and more!

1.) Protect your profit

An unprotected affiliate link is easy pickings for the commission thief. There are three ways that your affiliate commissions can be stolen.

First there is the "Over writer", sounding more like a comic book villain than a real world thief the Over writer is tech savvy and when he finds a new affiliate with an unprotected site he uploads a script that changes your affiliate link to his when a customer clicks. The Over writer is not your typical commission thief in that it takes some know how to accomplish this type of crime.

Second there we have the Hijacker. This type of commission thief is typically a visitor that you have brought to your site who is an affiliate marketer. Until you brought their attention to the product that you are promoting they were unaware of it and rather than pay full price they simply replace your affiliate id with theirs.

Last of all we have the "I don't want to give anyone any money" person, who will copy and paste your affiliate link into their browser and remove the affiliate code so you never get the commision

With Link Cloaking none of these 3 thieves will ever be able to steal your commisions

2.) Email Marketing

Link cloaking comes into play in email marketing by making affiliate links shorter and less ugly. Most email marketers ensure that their messages are no more than 60 characters wide so that the the message to be condensed and easier to read. This is great for the reader but not for long affiliate links. In most email programs when a URL is broken into multiple lines only the first line is clickable. This means that your customer is going to have to enter the rest of the URL into the browser and since people in general are down right lazy many will not bother.

You could spend your time researching on the internet exactly how to manually cloak your links but that takes time and unless you are pretty good with code can be very frustrating. Not to worry though as the headline said there is a new free link cloaking software sheriff in town that is the affiliate marketer's hero.

Cloak 'n' Rotate will make the process automated and save huge amounts of time and money. Don't do the tedious process of hand coding when you don't have to. Your time is better spent working on your business, not spending energy learning programming to do it yourself. Do you value your time at more than $10 an hour?

This free software package gives you much more functionality than simply building your own redirect by hand.

Let Cloak 'n' Rotate save you both time and money by:

- Creating cloaked and encrypted links that stop commission thieves in their tracks

- Seamlessly integrating encrypted redirect pages to hide your affiliate links.

- Rotating up to 20 affiliate product with complete security.

- Organizing all of your affiliate links in one easy to find place.

- Giving you a user friendly control panel where you can track stats, make changes and administer your affiliate links effortlessly.

With these features in mind I think of Cloak 'n' Rotate as a hero to the affiliate marketer. If you want true safety in link cloaking with the added benefit of encryption, product rotation, super easy installation and user friendly control panel then Cloak 'n' Rotate is what you have been looking for. Last of all its completely free so grab it now!