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I was wondering if anyone had any experience in cloaking the affiliate link with JS. I know how to do it, but doe it increase your CTR?
Anyone?
when it comes to stopping players from signing up without going through your linking code.. no it doesnt.
it gets used for other purposes.. but they arent very nice ones..
@kar 128598 wrote:
…it gets used for other purposes.. but they arent very nice ones..
Kar, I don’t quite get you. Are you saying that JS cloaking of your affiliate link could be used maliciously? If so how?
i dont think that it will increase the clickthrough rate BUT it is much easier to change links and actually calculate the clickthroughs on your end when cloaking aff. links…
wagerx.. apologies,didnt say it correctly.
It isnt malicious, but sneaky when some affiliates do link exhanges with other affiliates. Some affiliates will do link exchanges using this javascript method.
What this does is make sure that the bots dont follow through the links…As for a user clicking on the javascript link, thats fine, nothing malicious there. Although I prefer to use this an alternate method, rather then having straight normal links to the advertised casino, an alternative is using php, where your link could look like
http://www.wagerx-website.com/linkto.php?gotocasino=casinoid
further.. if the user did copy and paste that link into their browser.. it would still send them to the casino.. with your affiliate id attached!
@kar 128617 wrote:
wagerx.. apologies,didnt say it correctly.
It isnt malicious, but sneaky when some affiliates do link exhanges with other affiliates. Some affiliates will do link exchanges using this javascript method.
What this does is make sure that the bots dont follow through the links…o, I got you now! I totally agree that “link exchanges” are cloaked via JS or exclusions in Robot.txt files.. or orphaned It’s not ethical, and a complete waste of time. One great thing about this forum is that you can find great link partners who keep the links up like they should. Most likely because there’s accountability. lol.
Thanks for the clarification kar!
Cheers!Some people make links to their casino html redirects with no follow so that they dont bleed PR out…. :wink-wink
Nofollowing links doesn’t prevent PR from bleeding out. The site you’re linking to doesn’t receive any PR, but that doesn’t mean that the amount of PR that’s sent to the other links on the page isn’t still divided by the total number of links on the page.
@Professor 128629 wrote:
Some people make links to their casino html redirects with no follow so that they dont bleed PR out…. :wink-wink
@Randy 128631 wrote:
Nofollowing links doesn’t prevent PR from bleeding out. The site you’re linking to doesn’t receive any PR, but that doesn’t mean that the amount of PR that’s sent to the other links on the page isn’t still divided by the total number of links on the page.
You also have to consider what google thinks of a site that’s full of no follow links.
Google doesn’t care if all your links are nofollow or not. The important thing to remember is that Google does actually “follow” the links, they just don’t pass PR to the landing site.
As for the cloaking question, there really is no difference in click-thru rates IMO. The link a user is clicking on can look clean as in http://www.casinosite.com, but have the affiliate code behind it. The user is going to click on it anyway, and many of the affiliate codes redirect to a clean URL anyway, so to the user it is a seamless process. I wouldn’t assume that most surfers pay attention to the URL anyway, or care what it is, there are tons of dynamically driven sites out there today that have all sorts of crazy looking URLs, people don’t stop using them.
If you do cloak the links in Javascript, Google definitely won’t see the link and you won’t leak PR that way, though I’m not sure that’s much of an issue anyway. It would be interesting to test out however.
I just use
before the end of the HEAD tag.
I just hide all links with no links. dont know if that will reduce CTR though.. hoping not.
I am currently making a small application that will let me track the clicks on each link and will also create an outgoing link for each affiliate link. I will let you know how it works.
I just use the redirect code
and to the visitor it looks like mysite.com/casinos/slotland.htm
that way if I need to change the code I just update the slotland.htm file. I’m sure the JS stuff you can do that too but this has worked great for me
A very simple script:
Make a file called 123casino.php
and in it place:
Solid solution, much better than a meta refresh too.
A very simple script:
Make a file called 123casino.php
and in it place:
Solid solution, much better than a meta refresh too.
That does work better that the refresh. Thanks!!!:thumbsup:
