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Link tracking and cloaking for affiliates - Amazon Associates Tutorial
From the course: Affiliate Marketing Foundations
Link tracking and cloaking for affiliates
- [Narrator] As an affiliate, merchants will track your affiliate commissions via a special affiliate link. So I am an affiliate for a company called AWeber, this is an email marketing software, and this is an example of my affiliate link. Now, unfortunately, these affiliate links are really long and unsightly, and this could put people off clicking on them. So instead of using this link that AWeber have provided for me, I can actually cloak this link. So cloaking is when you take that link and you essentially try to shorten it or hide it so that it doesn't look as unsightly as it does now. If you are a WordPress user and you've created a WordPress site, then you can install a plugin called Pretty Links. So Pretty Links will look something like this once you've installed it, and as you can see, here are an example of some of my affiliate links that I have created using this particular Pretty Links plugin. So…