Blogging Pays U?

Until a few weeks ago, I never bothered with cloaking affiliate links. I mean why would I? Anyone signing up for a program and carrying my links (ie giving me some type of refferal fee or earnings) isn't penalized for it. They don't lose anything be being my affiliate.

Now, its easy to cheat someone of their affiliate earnings. When you hit an embedded url you just delete the last bit that contains the affiliate id and so doing, you stop them getting a referral fee or whatever. Again, why would anyone do that? Except through sheer bloody mindedness right?

Well, a few weeks ago, I embedded some of my affiliate links using a cloaking program available of the internet for free. It just mkeans that when someone clicks on the affiliate program link, they don't see the affiliate code there and so there is nothing to delete to stop me getting my fee or reward for referring you. I didn't code all the links on the site like that - just a few...just to see how YOU behave.

SHAME on you all. What I found is that my referal rate went up more than 200% for cloaked affiliate links versus the non-cloaked ones. That means that YOU folks are cheating me out of referal fees. WHY? Sheer bloody mindedness? So I work to find programs, investigate them and then post on them for you. This affords you the opportunity of signing up too. But you remove my affiliate link code so that I don't get paid for my work? Lovely and thanks....

All links will now be cloaked - I cannot trust you it seems!!!