Should we hide our affiliate links?

[nhc1987]

Some people believes that affiliate links have to be visible, to be honest that this link is actually makes some financial income to site owner.

Others are sure that showing affiliate links equal to loosing money because lots of people do not want to join under you.

So what do you think?

[urvisoni]

Hello

Do you people know any software which can be used for cloaking my affiliate links so that I can have lots of affiliate?

[Alan]

Oh bad practice. If you get caught using this you run the risk of being banned from the SEs that find the cloaking, and probably the affilliate program too.

[decipher]

If your referring to to affiliate link masking you can find a tool for it here, as for actual cloaking software there is search engine cloaker however using a software like this comes with great risks.

Thanks!

[santan]

Cloaking is not allowed by google. If you mean masking then you can try tinyurl or other similar masking services by searching on google.

[akira07]

No, not always needed to be hidden...
if you can provide good strategy to earn from some affiliate program, you can write :

"If you think my post is usefull, then please join under my reff link"

[Barton]

Hi,

I think we can not hide our affiliate link because that link is actually makes some financial income to site owner.

[donald]

Some people believes that affiliate links have to be visible, to be honest that this link is actually makes some financial income to site owner.

Others are sure that showing affiliate links equal to loosing money because lots of people do not want to join under you.

So what do you think?

hi.....
i don't think that we can hide it...
and if it is really so then i really not know how to hide it..!!
can you tell me about doing that.....

[urvisoni]

People now so smart and they dont signup affiliate program easily. So its good habit to hide affiliate links.

[yanamk]

I think the best way to go around this is to promote affiliate programs that really work. This way people will not mind joining under your name.

Give honest reviews, explain why joining is such a good idea in the first place (but in your own words...).