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Making money online with affiliates is possible, but what if you refer someone that removes your affiliate id from the URL? Or if your visitors don’t click on your affiliate link just because it looks like this http://www.text-link-ads.com?ref=77198? That’s why affiliate link cloakers were created. These tools are useful to hide affiliate links and to make them look more user friendly. Here are 3 tools that will help you to rewrite affiliate links.

1) Tinyurl

you can enter a URL into TinyURL, and your affiliate link will be hidden from the visitor, only the tinyurl.com address and the ending address will be visible to your visitors.

A link like this “http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=77198″ will look like this “http://tinyurl.com/yqxbbb” when you go over the tex link with your mouse.

2) Clickfire

This affiliate link cloaker tool hides those ugly parameterized links that users see in the browser status bar when the mouse is held over a link. With this tool, webmasters can make links that end like this: ?affiliateid=9999999&sid=99999999 appear as a clean text link. This way, users will not be distracted by the link parameters in your quality affiliate link.

The best feature of this tool is that you can include a “nofollow” tag for each affiliate link so that seach engine spiders won’t leave your website through these links.

3) Glhoftware

This tools differs from the 2 tools described above. It will create a single html file for each affiliate link. A link likt this http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=77198 will look like this http://www.linkrain.com/text-link-ads.htm. It makes the affiliate links search engine friendly and good looking.

 Using affiliate link cloakers can heavily improve your affiliate link click through rate and I suggest you to rewrite your links as soon as possible.