Every Affiliate Link It's an Asset: Free Cloak Tool

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For affiliate marketing, every single link it's an asset.
Every link it's kind of employee working for you 24/7

Why? because if you seed 5 links per day (blog post, articles, forums, etc.)
then:
day 1 = 5 links
day 2 = 10 links
day 10 = 50 links
day 30 = 150 links
day 90= 450 links

And so on... one of the most common mistakes its to publish your affiliate link "as is"
some people never will click on your link, and even you can lost commissions in a big way.

I notice these days people use some free short services as bit.ly or goo.gl
but this is not safe enough, because you don't have any control about your links at all.
You are making a cash deposit on a complete stranger you find on the street!

I can tell you 2 free short services disasters: tinyurl & U2T (but there some more)

tinyurl was one of the most used until one day several services banned it,
and U2T one day redirect all the links to a sales page!

Thousands of people lost all their link (mainly tweets) because all of them goes to a
sales page, right now is not a sales page, it's a parked domain.

But the lesson here it's to take care for every single link you seed on the net.

There is a great tool that allow you to create redirects and cloak your links on your
own hosting, easily and free it's Profit Protector, you can download it here:

Free HTML Tool - Profit Protector Affiliate Link Cloaker

With this tool you can cloak, manage and modify every single link you seed.

For example, you are promoting some product on weight loss, but that program
disappears, or you find a better product to promote, so you create a new redirect
with the same name, upload to your server and all you links goes to your new product
now.

You really need to consider every single link a real asset on your business and you must
have a full control on your assets.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    thanks for the information and sharing the link too. i think its helpful. don't have the time to watch and observe it in detail. jut had a look. and it attracted me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Olvera
    Thanks for sharing, the tool must me installed on my PC or in the hosting account?
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    • Profile picture of the author Yadira Barbosa
      Originally Posted by Alex Olvera View Post

      Thanks for sharing, the tool must me installed on my PC or in the hosting account?
      You will install Profit Protector on your computer, it's very easy to do:

      1.- Install the software
      2.- Run the program
      3.- Add your affiliate link
      4.- Provide a name for the link (the product name you are promoting or some name regarding it)
      5.- Save the link on any folder you wish (I create a folder just for storage all the cloaks), the tool create a new html redirect, so you mus see "nameyouchoose.HMTL"
      6.- Change the . HTML to .html
      6.- Using you FTP Program create a new folder on your hosting account (as "goto", "recommends", "go")
      7.- Upload the file to your hosting
      8.- You're done!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Olvera
    Thanks for the explanation!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ladyboss1
      Can you still use this with wordpress sites?
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      • Profile picture of the author Yadira Barbosa
        Originally Posted by Ladyboss1 View Post

        Can you still use this with wordpress sites?
        Yes, you can create a folder inside public_html that you can name as "goto" "go" "recommends" or whatever you want, and upload the generated file using FTP program as Filezilla.
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      • Profile picture of the author briancassingena
        Originally Posted by Ladyboss1 View Post

        Can you still use this with wordpress sites?
        There's a great plugin called Pretty Link, free and paid versions, I've only tried the free version but it seems to do just as well as any other method of cloaking your link and making it look like it's on your domain. Would never have a WP affiliate site with out it, wondering how much better can the paid version be if the free one is so good?
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        • Profile picture of the author Haphiza
          Thanks for the information about the link cloaker. Can a link be cloaked and used on squidoo lens without buying a domain name and having a hosting account.

          Thank you
          Haphiza
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  • Profile picture of the author Elkinton
    Originally Posted by Yadira Barbosa View Post

    For affiliate marketing, every single link it's an asset.
    Every link it's kind of employee working for you 24/7

    Why? because if you seed 5 links per day (blog post, articles, forums, etc.)
    then:
    day 1 = 5 links
    day 2 = 10 links
    day 10 = 50 links
    day 30 = 150 links
    day 90= 450 links

    And so on... one of the most common mistakes its to publish your affiliate link "as is"
    some people never will click on your link, and even you can lost commissions in a big way.

    I notice these days people use some free short services as bit.ly or goo.gl
    but this is not safe enough, because you don't have any control about your links at all.
    You are making a cash deposit on a complete stranger you find on the street!

    I can tell you 2 free short services disasters: tinyurl & U2T (but there some more)

    tinyurl was one of the most used until one day several services banned it,
    and U2T one day redirect all the links to a sales page!

    Thousands of people lost all their link (mainly tweets) because all of them goes to a
    sales page, right now is not a sales page, it's a parked domain.

    But the lesson here it's to take care for every single link you seed on the net.

    There is a great tool that allow you to create redirects and cloak your links on your
    own hosting, easily and free it's Profit Protector, you can download it here:

    Free HTML Tool - Profit Protector Affiliate Link Cloaker

    With this tool you can cloak, manage and modify every single link you seed.

    For example, you are promoting some product on weight loss, but that program
    disappears, or you find a better product to promote, so you create a new redirect
    with the same name, upload to your server and all you links goes to your new product
    now.

    You really need to consider every single link a real asset on your business and you must
    have a full control on your assets.
    Thanks, for sharing the information, money saving tips, and a free tool- worth more than gold.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Big Deal
    Thanks for the info, I will check it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author kianhowe
    Looks great, I will definitely give this a try!
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