MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Link Cloaker

As you might have noticed, when I link out to a site using an affiliate link, I don’t link out directly through the affiliate program as many do, but it actually looks like an internal link.

There are many reasons for doing this. Basically the link first passes through my link internally on my site before going out to the affiliate program. This is a practice that I highly recommend, I explain why and show you the tool that I use to do it.

Track your clicks

First of all, when you “cloak” your links and send them either through a tool like MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate or a custom piece of software that you develop yourself, you gain the explicit ability to track clicks on the traffic you are sending to various affiliates. This allows you to keep tabs on the numbers you are reporting vs. numbers they report. I personally have seen differences in click numbers from what I was reporting and what my affiliate programs were reporting before, and if affiliate marketing is something that brings you income, you definitely want to be on top of keeping your revenue streams honest.

Keep Google Out

While Google doesn’t necessarily say that they don’t like to see affiliate links on sites, I can’t imagine that they love it. Especially if you are running a site that is full of affiliate links, it can’t be Google’s favorite thing. When you cloak your affiliate links they just look like internal links, and if you use a directory like /hop/ or /recommends/ to pass all your links through like I am on this site, you can simply disallow that directory in your robots.txt file so bots will stay out and leave your aff links alone.

Change All Your Links At Once

What happens if the product you’ve been pushing decides to change affiliate networks? Or if you find a competing product that pays out better commissions and want to switch out all your links? If all of your links are direct, you’re gonna have to go back through your site and find each link by hand and convert them over. But if you have a tool like MBP Ninja Affiliate it just takes a few clicks to change all of the links on your site.

MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate

For all of these reasons, I use and recommend the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate tool. MBP Ninja Affiliate allows you to cloak your links, track link counts, convert keyworks to ninja links, create groups of links, temporarily suspend link campaigns, and backup all of your data, all in one tool.

I have seen several other tools with similar functionality since I started using MBP, I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on them. These other tools, like MBP aren’t free, so I obviously haven’t tried them out cause I’ve loved the functionality of MBP and I don’t have a giant budget for trying out tools, as fun as that would be!

Also, if you decide to go ahead and try out MBP Ninja Affiliate, if you buy before friday they’re running a 30% discount! Let me know what you think!

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