Hello Fellow Readers,
on the last days I had people saying me that I should hide my affiliate links, but, I have to admit most of the time I prefer to use the affiliate links, so let me explain why!
The first reason is, even that my blog has lots of free information and tips, I am a seller, and when I sell I don´t have to hide myself…
But the main reason (and you should read this one) is that not hiding your links can be really powerful! Why?
Well, google and some other search engines do not like redirect links and not hiding your affiliate links its a good way of having them indexed…
Let me share and example, back in May (day 7) I had a post about a report on “List Building” from my friend Gabriel Aguiñaga, (Click Here To Check The Post) and even that you don´t see the ref link, I am not hiding it… The report is 100% Free but has some backend sales that when my referrals decide to buy I get some commissions…
Now, since I am not hiding the affiliate link, and only as an example, you can visit google.com and search for “criticallistbuilding” (I know its not a keyword other people will search, but its only and example) and you will see my affiliate link as main result:
I am not promoting that same product for long time, and still I can get lots of members signing under me…
Remember that I have told you that the site is free but some members can buy some backend offer?
Well, without promoting, and cause I don´t hide my affiliate links I had $20 in commissions from “Critical List Building”, I know is not much, but its almost 3 month since I promoted it:
I can also understand why people hide their affiliate links and don´t have nothing against it, in fact in some posts can be a good way of doing things, but you should not always do that with all your affiliate links!
With Success
Pedro Sardinha
It does’nt matter how much affliated links you show. what matters is how much your links will be usefull for our bloggers. My question is how to you make profit through backend sales.
Hi
Interesting argument, I must say that I do use a redirect system on affiliate links, not just to hide those links, but also to give me back control over those links, giving one place where they can be updated. Affiliate managers (as we have seen with text-link-ads) have a habit of changing things around every now and then, if you are forced to go through in my case 1000’s of affiliate links scattered across many sites it becomes an impossible task.
As far as search engines are concerned, i think that you are probably right, redirects are bad, but the question is which is worse, redirects or broken links that you have missed while updating?
Nice comment 
As I´ve told before, both can work in different ways
I also think hiding link is necessary. But mouseovver javascripts only hides links on mouse over time. When they try to click, actual link will appear on the page. Also if the browser disabled JavaScript, it will not works.
I found a simpler way to hide affiliate links completly. Visit: http://cutelink.info and you will realise how it is simple to hide your links.
I completely agree, you should not hide anything. Search engines are smarter than you think, and so hiding things from them will cause problems in the long run. You have to be completely truthful in everything. Work with the search engines, not against them.
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