Two affiliate marketing guides I purchased in the last year had a section on link cloaking. I tried out the link cloaking methods used in the guides and found that they did not work. What I found after extensive testing is that the affiliate link I clicked on before I clicked on my link would get the affiliate commission. This is not good. I didn't want to spend all that money on advertising only to have someone else benefit from my effort. Eventually, I did find a way to cloak my affiliate links. The method involves both setting cookies and changing the affiliate link to numeric ampersand or hexadecimal code. As far as I know, this method only works with Clickbank products at the moment, and I have found it unnecessary for other affiliate products.

The way it works is with a perl script that sets your affiliate id and also checks for cookies at the same time. You send the affiliate merchant id via the link. The script actually detects whether the user has cookies set or not and then prompts them to set them if they do not. If you have a website of your own, you can then use a link within frames method, which is generally not possible with the usual means provided in the typical affiliate marketing guides. The methods just using frames will most likely result in someone else getting credit and not you, as my own testing showed. I've been testing this method with the perl script for almost a year with spectacular results. Currently, the script I use is not available for general usage, but soon a method will be made available for others to use.

The bottom line is that if you sell Clickbank products, you want to be aware that most methods of affiliate link cloaking will not work or cost you a lot of money. Check my website often as the script will be made available soon and there might be limitations on the number I give the code out to.

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