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Losing affiliate commissions is not the only reason you should hide affiliate url’s.

If you can present your website as an unbiased resource designed to refer visitor’s to another website without you appearing to gain anything, then the visitor will be more likely to buy. Why should they help you line your pockets? By hiding your affiliate url- also known as a masked frame redirect - you improve your chances of closing more affiliate sales.

Further to this, visitor’s will be more likely to reccomend your site to other visitor’s if it appears unbiased- which will result in an increase of traffic.

Many affiliate marketer’s aren’t aware how affiliate cloaking actually works- some don’t even know that it is possible to steal affiliate commisions.

If you take the example of ClickBank, everytime a visitor clicks on an affiliate link on your website they are directed to the merchant’s sales page via the ClickBank Server. The ClickBank server writes a cookie to the visitor’s machine, which if they purchase you are credited with the commision. Affiliate cloaking allows the affiliate to hide their clickbank hoplink from the visitor, thus presenting themselves as an unbiased reccomendation. It has been proven that someone is more likely to buy if they believe the website will not gain from their purchase.