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What Is Link Cloaking?

Topic: Internet MarketingPublished July 9, 2012

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So you have decided to take the jump into affiliate marketing, you have your webpage built around all the great keywords you spent time researching, and you have all your affiliate links strategic placed around your webpages. Or do you? Strategically placed? How do you know the best way to place your ads or affiliate links on your webpage? Where should you place them? There are some guidelines to go by, but they are not perfect. The best way to find out is by using link cloaking software. You have probably heard about link cloaking software and maybe you are not sure what all the buzz is about. Well, link cloaking software can help you to do many things.rnLink cloaking software gives affiliate marketers an advantage over other affiliate marketers. Link cloaking software can be used to cloak links that do not look natural. And by this I mean those big ugly cryptic looking links. I am sure you have seen them before. Maybe you have even received an email from a friend that contains a link that wraps down the page 4 times or more. There are a lot of people who do not want to click on these links. Can you blame them? Link cloaking software allows you to change the way those links look. You can make them look very natural. You can give them a good descriptive name that will make people want to click on them. Link cloaking software can also save your commissions from being stolen right out from under you. A lot of affiliate links are obvious, especially to the savvy Internet user. If they recognize the link as an affiliate link, they can simply remove your affiliate ID from the link and continue on to the site that you sent them too. If this happens, you don’t make any money. Even after you did all the work, analyzing the product and writing a review and directing them to the sell. And I am betting you spent many hours optimizing your page and working to get your webpage to the top of the search pages. Link cloaking software can also give you lots of wonderful stats that can give you an idea of what links people are clicking on and what links on your website visitors are not clicking on. Once you have this valuable data in your logs, you can then monetize your website to fit the needs of your website visitors. You might have a webpage with 4 affiliate links but only one of them gets all the clicks. That would mean the other 3 are just setting there taking up space. If you had this information you could then make sure that your best affiliate offer is located in the one place that gets the most clicks. On the other hand, the other 3 links are not getting clicked on. You might decide to do a little testing by changing the link keywords to see if this makes a difference. Or you may just remove them completely. You may also find out that there is one particular page on your website that most of your visitors are landing on. If this is the case, you can then optimize that particular page for your visitors. rnRyan King helps people to discover the benefits of using link cloaking software to your online business. As an experienced marketer with number of websites on the first page of Google, he would like to share his internet marketing journey.

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