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Can anyone tell me about link cloaking.

Link cloaking or masking is the technique of hiding the true destination of a hyperlink. This is done to improve CTR as visitors may feel more comfortable clicking on a friendly-looking link. There are several ways to accomplish this including using Javascript to hide or change the destination that shows in the browser’s status bar, iframes or redirects. It is generally viewed as black hat but this has been debated depending on it’s usage.

The purpose of link cloaking is to hide your affiliate link so people don't know if they click affiliate link. The reason is, most people don't click affiliate links. They don't like the idea of someone is making money from them.

yes i agree with you thanks for sharing such a nice information.

Link cloaking, you can say it is just like bluffing. It is the technique which used to hide actual destination or target page.

Link cloaking is used to conceal your affiliate links from the users. The motive for hide link is for the reason that peoples might not like to hit off the affiliate links because they don’t like that somebody is making money from them.

Hi

Cloaking is a search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's  browser.Cloaking is often used as a spamdexing technique to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking. By the same method, it can also be used to trick search engine users into visiting a site that is substantially different from the search engine description, including delivering pornographic content cloaked within non-pornographic search results.Cloaking is a form of the doorway page technique.

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