It’s so sad to know that so many people know about affiliate links and when they see them they tend to turn away or some even hijack the link, changing it to suite their greedy needs.

Because of this I have had to figure out how to keep my affiliate links disguised long enough for the visitor to click it and land on the web page I was directing them to. Once they are there it usually means a cookie has been set on their computer so that I should get credit for the sale, if they purchase of course.

How To Protect Your Affiliate Link

After a year or more of not realizing what was happening to my income I read about why people turn away from affiliate likes and why others switch the affiliate link around so that they can purchase for less without giving any to me at all.

Now I use ShrinkURL.com to create a new shorter affiliate link that protects my link.

I also have Wp Affiliate Pro, a plugin for my Wordpress blogs. I can specify what keywords I want to link to in my blog and I can even give it anchor text that says what I want instead of showing a linked address.

If you look at my affiliate link in the WP Affiliate Pro link above you will see that I used ShrinkURL.com to change my affiliate link into just another link. Now it’s protected.

Another way to protect your affiliate links is using a PHP re-direct. I am not a programmer so this is a little beyond me at this point but those that use it seem to like how it works.

So if you are new to affiliate marketing I would suggest you protect your links and watch your sales go up like I did.

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