There are several reasons for cloaking or redirecting affiliate links. For instance, it’s easier to work with affiliate links when you redirect them, plus you can make them look prettier. But do you know how to cloak affiliate links? We explained how the process works in one of our previous posts. This Ask Yoast is about the method of cloaking affiliate links we gave you in that post. Is it still a good idea to redirect affiliate links via the script we described?
Elias Nilson emailed us, saying that he read our article about cloaking affiliate links and he’s wondering if the solution is still up-to-date.
“Is it still a good idea to redirect affiliate links via the script you describe in your post?”
Check out the video or read the answer below!
Redirect affiliate links
Read this transcript to figure out if it is still a valid option to redirect affiliate links via the described script. Want to see the script directly? Read this post: ‘How to cloak affiliate links’:
Honestly, yes. Recently we updated the post about cloaking affiliate links, so the post and therefore the script is still up to date. Link cloaking, which sounds negative, because we use the word cloaking, is basically hiding from Google that you’re an affiliate. And if you’re an affiliate, that’s still the thing that you want to do, because usually Google ranks original content that is not by affiliates better than it does affiliates.
So, yes, I’d still recommend that method, the link will be below this post, so you can see the original post that we are referencing to. It’s a very simple method to cloak your affiliate links and I think it works in probably the best way that I know.
So, keep going. Good luck.
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