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Are You Cloaking Your Links?
I'm sure you know all the reasons why you should cloak your links.
- It makes your links shorter and easier to share with others.
- It keeps your referral links safe. If you cloak your referral links, then it's much harder for someone to delete your referral code when following your link.
- Your links are easier to remember. With many link cloakers, you can choose a tag to use as part of the link. A tag with a recognizable word is much easier to remember than a link with random numbers or letters.
- You can use your cloaked links as a tracker. You can take one link and cloak it multiple times and use a different tag for each. Each tag would be different and correspond to where you plan to post the link. It's not the best form of tracking, but it's a quick method to see how many hits each posting location is giving you.
I know people have many excuses as to why they don't cloak their links. I know that for me the biggest was that it was too time consuming. I had to copy the link, then open the website to the link cloaker, then paste in my link to get my cloaked link. Finally, I had to select the new link and copy it. It was time consuming.
There is a faster and easier way to cloak links.
Many link cloakers now have plugins for Firefox that will cloak your links with just a couple clicks. It's much faster and easier than the old method.
© Michelle Schneider, All rights reserved.
I cloak my links here: http://vur.me/s/Viral_Cloaking
Submitted on September 17, 2009
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