So you made an astonishing auto-responder email orders, you wrote plenty of good articles, and you have a very captivating landing page which sucks in the leads. Yet by any means you're getting almost no sells and you don't understand why. Sound familiar? I know this is a quiet general problem, but it's unlucky that individual still haven't discovered what's causing it.

I'll try to clarify a little of what's happening to your sales without link cloaking throughout this article. Conversely to what you could be thinking - it is completely feasible that your sales funnel is making plenty of sales, but you're not observing any of the commission. Obviously this is a quiet great problem that you'll want to take care of as soon as possible.

Basically what's happening is this: the user is changing your affiliate ID to their own, or spyware on their computer is doing it. Both of these will prevent you from obtaining credit for the sale though you're the one who made it. There's no way that you can stop them from doing that, unless you conceal your link.

Link cloaking is when you program a redirect on your website that conceals affiliate ID's and makes it unworkable for spyware or users to stop you from getting sales.

I hope you understand the variation this could make, you could be giving someone else all of your sales already. Rather than making money from your sales funnel you could be simply giving it off to somebody else.

Even if you make sales constantly without problems, some of them could still be stolen. It shouldn't harm anything to start cloaking your links so you lock in the sales. The problem is that it might be hard to make a good link conceal, unless you're a programmer (or something of that nature).

Instead you might use one of the many link cloaking services on the net, but I wouldn't advice you just use the first one that you get. Many of these will in fact mess up the tracking cookies and you STILL won't get credit for the sale. You need to ensure that you're using a concealing service intended for affiliate marketing - and there aren't almost as many of those.

I have heard terror stories of individual who used redirection services like TinyURL and Bitly - actually they are disreputable for regular screwing up affiliate links and not providing you credit for any sales. Most various link restricting services will have these problems also.

The excellent link cloaker is one that you might set on your own site so you don't have to agonize regarding anything going down or not functioning correctly. As I mentioned before, this might be tough to make if you aren't a programmer - or willing to pay one.