Comments on: What Is Link Cloacking?

By: muhyar

muhyar — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:02:22 +0000

yes, I thing this is special attention for blogger, improvement on your conversion rates will decrease. agree!

By: Niche Profits

Niche Profits — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:07:03 +0000

Someone has told me that Google won’t rank your site as highly if they can see your site is an affiliate site – lets not forget they are also now selling products too – it makes sense.

Is this true? I currently don’t cloak my links.

By: Dave Higgs

Dave Higgs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:22 +0000

Thanks for the post – I just learned something

I understand the concept of clocking the link, but is there not an ethical issue with this? Is our job (as publishers) not to get target traffic to the advertisers – not just any traffic? Am I being naive here?

I think users that want to click the link (if your article has inspired them or not) they will, unless it is something dodgy-looking…

Benefits I see:
1. Makes URL look neater,
2. Redirects can make admin a lot easier.
3. It should (in most cases) increase click throughs – but is this right?

By: ImagingDesk

ImagingDesk — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:24:34 +0000

I use link cloaking for hiding some secured IDs. I use php redirection for Facebook profile, LinkedIn profile, etc.

By: Cebu Tech Blogger

Cebu Tech Blogger — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:32:57 +0000

Some internet savvy users can still check where the cloaked links redirect. Anyway, it still a good practice both cloacking or not cloacking links.