Noob question about cloaking links - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

allco · 04-01-2009, 12:58 AM

I understand cloaking links and have done that for years.

Reading many posts in the past, there's suggestions to re-direct your affiliate links on your landing page (have your links go to an html page on your site then redirect that page to the sales offer page from the network) - to hide your keywords from the affiliate network.

I have to be missing something stupendously obvious here...

The visitor finds your ad on Search network - clicks and goes to your landing page, likes what they see, then clicks your affiliate link to go to the sales page....

but how would the affiliate network know your keywords (you used on Adwords etc.) if your visitor came from your landing page?

Or is this refering only to direct linking (from Adwords etc. straight to the network sales page?

And some boobs......

zimok · 04-01-2009, 02:42 PM

It never ceases to surprise me that when I have a question in my head, without a miss, a few days later a thread pops up about it...

so... another +rep from me for the answer :P

xentech · 04-01-2009, 03:08 PM

If you use sub id's to track keywords.

JamesH · 04-01-2009, 03:49 PM

^ But if you use P202 it cloaks your keywords. I think it does that by encrypting the sub ids.

04-01-2009, 12:58 AM	#1 (permalink)
allco Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 631 iTrader: 26 / 100%	Noob question about cloaking links I understand cloaking links and have done that for years. Reading many posts in the past, there's suggestions to re-direct your affiliate links on your landing page (have your links go to an html page on your site then redirect that page to the sales offer page from the network) - to hide your keywords from the affiliate network. I have to be missing something stupendously obvious here... The visitor finds your ad on Search network - clicks and goes to your landing page, likes what they see, then clicks your affiliate link to go to the sales page.... but how would the affiliate network know your keywords (you used on Adwords etc.) if your visitor came from your landing page? Or is this refering only to direct linking (from Adwords etc. straight to the network sales page? And some boobs...... Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

04-01-2009, 02:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
zimok Click, Whirr. Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 1,995 iTrader: 0 / 0%	It never ceases to surprise me that when I have a question in my head, without a miss, a few days later a thread pops up about it... so... another +rep from me for the answer :P Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ You can't effectively ride two horses at once.

04-01-2009, 03:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
xentech NFLol. Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Great Britain Posts: 1,838 iTrader: 1 / 100%	If you use sub id's to track keywords. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

04-01-2009, 03:49 PM	#4 (permalink)
JamesH Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,511 iTrader: 13 / 100%	^ But if you use P202 it cloaks your keywords. I think it does that by encrypting the sub ids. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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