Affiliates were asked “Do you cloak/redirect links?” for the 2011 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report . The majority of respondents, at 59%, said no, and the remaining 41% indicated they do cloak their links. I’ve been cloaking affiliate links for as long as I can remember – first through meta redirects, then via an .htaccess file, before I moved on to using a WordPress plugin called Pretty Link
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The Majority of Affiliates Do Not Cloak Links
