Effectively cloaking affiliate links is very important for affiliate marketers. When we are talking about cloaking affiliate links, we are not talking about unethical seo practices, we are talking about protecting your affiliate link from dishonest syndicates who download your article.

Article syndication and affiliate marketing go hand in hand and many affiliate marketers earn a living through the affiliate/article marketing combination.

Although some article directories do not allow affiliate links in the articles submitted to them, some do. Therefore, some caution is necessary when making your article available for syndication through directories.

After an article is downloaded from an article directory and published to a website, the unique identifier of a hop-link can be changed without the attention of the articles author. For this reason, your link needs to be cloaked.

To cloak your affiliate link, you will need your own website. Third party websites are not recommended because you never know when they will close their doors and take your redirects with them. To effectively cloak you affiliate link, create a sub-folder in your root domain that contains the name of or keywords for your affiliate product or service. Create a single index.html file in that folder with the following code:

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