What is url masking for affiliate marketing?

I heard that when affiliates ';mask'; url, it is better from the search engine perspective. It is less likely that my keywords will become inactive as google adword does not see this as a link to affiliate site. Is this true? Please explain.What is url masking for affiliate marketing?
I use a product called Super Affiliate Link Manager. There is a link in my profile. It takes your affiliate link and makes it pretty, short, and you can cloak it so that your affiliate ID cannot be removed.





People will find a way to get around it if they really want to but most of the time it isn't a problem.





Good luck and I hope you find your answer!





Denise Johnson


http://www.bjohnsonco.com/WealthyAffilia鈥?/a>What is url masking for affiliate marketing?
Thanks for the info. If I have a coupon site which has 5-10 links per merchant, is there a faster way to clock the links?





Some of the links have the 1x1 pixel too. What do I do with those? Report Abuse

You are getting a little muddled here.





It is affiliate cloaking - this hides the affiliate link and stops people stealing your commission. There are several ways of doing this - the easiest is to use tinyurl.





It is not better from the search engine. It is better for the search engine if you use an inbedded link. This means you use a keyword as your linking word and then attach the link to the keyword via html.





Google adword does not like affiliate links. Clickbank explains one way of getting around this. A better way is to adword to your web site - not the affiliate link. Adword recognizes many cloaking methods.