Easy Link Cloaking Without Redirects Tool
Posted on December 5th, 2007 in Cloaking, Coding
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One thing about google that you most likely know already, but may not, is that they penalize you for having affiliate links on your page. If you use adwords, this equates to a lower quality score which in turn makes your cost per click more expensive. For normal ranking in google search, this means a lower position in the SERPs (search engine result pages).
One thing about spammers is, they like to scrape email addresses off webpages. Put your email addy on the front page of your blog, and wait a month, and feel the love as you get hundreds of ads for penis pumps and viagra clogging your inbox.
Fortunately for you, both of these birds can be killed with one stone. Just convert the link to unicode, throw it on your site, and it will be near invisible to nearly all scrapers and web spiders. Now you’re probably asking yourself, “But nickycakes, how do we convert a link to unicode?” You do it with this tool, duh:
December 5th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Why do I feel like this was directed at me?
You forgot to put ‘http://’ in front of the url which is required by older browsers btw
December 6th, 2007 at 7:55 am
hmmm… and after we hit submit, you store the URL as a little market research, right? at least that’s what i’d do.
December 6th, 2007 at 8:05 am
im not john chow
December 11th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Hi Nicky.
Obfuscation only stops about 70% of bots. I wouldn’t suggest any large affiliate sites switch to this method as Google can decode it.