Be Careful When Your Affiliates Practice Link Cloaking

Ok, this blog post is for the folks who are running an affiliate program for the business/products. You might want to get in touch with your army of affiliates and see if they are using link cloaking to promote your product or business. Read this whole blog post to know what i am getting at.

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If you run an affiliate program you may have noticed that some of your affiliates use a practice known as “link cloaking.” Link cloaking is a method used to make a long affiliate URL link into a shorter and prettier one—often to the detriment of a brand.
One of the most common forms of link cloaking occurs when an affiliate doesn’t use its own URL at all, but rather just appropriates a brand’s URL without any disclosure…

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Anyone have any thing to add or have feedback about the link cloaking?

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