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In reference to the Cloaking Your WordPress Affiliate Links post I wrote a few days ago, I had a little accident that I should relate.

For whatever reason, maybe WordPress updated something or maybe I wrote over the file, .htaccess was reset to its initial state thereby breaking every affiliate link on my site.
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Okay, I previously mentioned I’d talk about cloaking your affiliate links, why it is important and how to do it.

Just to be sure we all know what’s being discussed, an affiliate link is a link on your web site or blog to a sales page or process on a different web site with a different domain name.

An affiliate link might look something like this:
http://www.nastylink.com?aff=1234

That’s an ugly link and it reveals your affiliate ID to the general public. The argument goes that some potential buyers might be put off when they see it. Either they don’t like the fact they are changing to another web site or they just don’t like clicking on affiliate links and prefer to deal direct with the vendor.
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