WordPress Plugin to mask affiliate links: Link Cloaking
Let’s say you have hundreds of affiliate links on your website. And all those affiliate links are ugly with long urls that if detected by an user would be avoided given a chance. But you still want people to click through your affiliate links and possibly drive you some sales. In such situations the solution is a link cloaker plugin.
What is Link Cloaking plugin – what does it do?
Like I said, assume you have the following ugly affiliate URLs.
http://yourblog.com/uglylinks12334jnfjndjfndfdfbdfjbjfaffiliatelinks
And you want them to be something like…
http://yourblog.com/affiliate-name-here
The second links has a better click through rate isn’t it?
This is exactly what this plugin does. I helps you manage all your affiliate links from the backend at one single dashboard and create pretty URLs for each affiliate link.
Also, it can assign particular keywords to a link. For instance if you want all the instances of the keyword “Photo Gallery” on your site link to your affiliate link, this plugin does it easily.
