Link Cloaking Tools

Posted by Dave 9 February, 2009

hiding-the-affiliate-link Link cloaking tools is very important when you try to promote products. You to look as professional as can be you don’t your links to use many different and strange characters.

If you don’t know what link cloaking is, then here is a short explanation.

Most affiliates networks give a very ugly link that include many letter and characters that make the link un-professional to you website visitors.

For example a link for a Clickbank product will probably look like this:

http://myaffiliateid.merchantid.hop.clickbank.com , others affiliates networks will you an even hard to watch affiliate links for example:

http://www.ecovergenerator.com/x.cgi?adminid=814&id=36353&pid=20648

What if you could change this link to something more professional, something that will use your own domain and still save all the data of the affiliate link.

That is where affiliate cloaking tools can help you.

There are many ways to cloak you link manually but in most case is a lot of time and more important you don’t any tracking on what link did you use and how many times it was clicked.

While I have used many tools that can help me cloak my affiliate link I have found that only two of them deliver almost every aspect then I need in an link cloaking software.

Covert Affiliates Links VS Power Link Generator

Both are PHP script that need to installed on your own server, you can one installation and manage unlimited amount of affiliates links.

Both script will almost perform identical jobs and includes very similar features.

You can add many details for every affiliate link including: affiliate network, username and password, payment method and much more.

Both script track the number of time each link was clicked while Power Link Generator give break it into groups like day, month and so on Vs. Covert Affiliate Links that give you only the total number.

The Price

Although both software deliver the same features the is a huge price different between them Power link Generator price is 97$ while the price of Covert Affiliate Links price is almost half of it and stand on 47$ ( only for a limited a mount of time).

From my point of view there is no need to to pay twice for almost the same product and Covert Affiliate Links will do the same job while paying only half of the price.