How you normally cloak your affiliate link or you just direct using the affiliate link in a blog post or place it at somewhere in your blog such as sidebar? Cloaking an affiliate link professionally could definitely increase the click through rate and sales. There are many ways to cloak an affiliate link, either using free method or using paid softwares and tools.
There is nothing wrong to use free method to cloak your affiliate link, you can simple create a folder and an index file with some redirection coding and you’re done. Why people still want to use paid softwares or tools for link cloaking if they can do it themselves without paying a cent? Of course, there is some features which free method couldn’t do but they can be done by using paid softwares and tools.
Cloak Your Affiliate Link Professional
I’ve been using free method to cloak my affiliate link on my blog, but I found it difficult to track the performance of the affiliate link such as the click through rate and etc. We don’t know how’s the conversion rate of the affiliate link, so we need a link cloaking software or tool to do the job for us. Recently I got to know about a link cloaking tool named LinkTrackr and I’m testing the performance of this tool.
Linktrackr - Links
LinkTrakcr is a link cloaking software which helps you to cloak the affiliate link and track the performance. That being said, you’ll know which affiliate link converts well and which affiliate link does not. It’s a very simple software, you just have to add your link and do the setting, place the affiliate link with your desired URL for better conversion, and track the performance, that’s it.
Linktrackr - Links Setting
The tool is easy to use, even a 10 years old kid knows how to use and manage it. What I like LinkTrackr is the statistics, at least I know which affiliate link converts well. If the affiliate link doesn’t convert well, then I know that I need to do something else to increase the click through rate, this is what I can’t do with the free link cloaking method.
Linktrackr - Stats
LinkTrackr benefits:
- Easy to use web-based application – great for the average user
- Complete video tutorials, knowledgebase and PDF guides
- Viral marketing tools that help you get free traffic
- Flexible billing and low start-up costs – $1 trial, cancel anytime
- Don’t have to install / upgrade / fix script or software
- Centralized ad / click tracking for all your sites and blogs
- Complete data backups, reliable 24/7 servers
- Constant improvement and optimization
LinkTrackr features:
- Link cloaking, link tracking / masking
- Full graphical stats and reports
- Viral bar – shares your cloaked link on FaceBook / Twitter
- Custom domain names – as many different domains as you want
- WordPress plugin that converts keywords to your tracking links
- Use on all kinds of static sites, BlogSpot blogs, email links, PPC ads
Upcoming features:
- Weekly / monthly email reports of top 10 links
- A/B split testing and conversion tracking
- Integration with ClickBank API for accurate conversion tracking
- Viral bar can be positioned on top or at the bottom
- Ad builder – create ads similar to Google AdSense from all your links
Wrap Up
The method that you use to cloak your link would definitely affect the click through rate and sales, so you must learn how to cloak your affiliate link professionally. If you’re an affiliate marketer, you definitely need to know about the strategies of link cloaking. LinkTrackr provides free affiliate tips on their site and I’m sure you’ll learn something new over there.
Have you heard about LinkTrackr? Or if you’re using it, what do you think about LinkTrackr?
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About Lee Ka Hoong
I’ve decided to use Bit.ly to track my affiliate banner hits as it’s a lot more reliable then my self hosted url shortner which unfortunately tracks visits by bots :-(.
Very important as you can depend on manual or your affiliate records to monitor click , expression etc.
Just think if big affiliate companies like Amazon is hiding 10% record from publishers means how much money they are keeping in their pocket
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