I had a hard time of following George Brown’s Google Sniper video tutorial for cloaking affiliate links.

On his video (Module 6) it does look easy to cloak, but I was unsuccessful of doing it. It could be that I am using  Windows XP and he must  be using VISTA.

According to him that he’s been hearing that some affiliates, who use third party service for link cloaking, didn’t get credit for their sales. Cloaking your affiliate link the right way, will prevent your sales from being stolen.

I’ve been wanting to learn this strategy of link cloaking because it does allow you to make a nice looking link without the ugly numbers seen by your visitors.

If you have a hard time of following George’s video tutorial, I hope this will help you. Part of my tutorial will refer you to George’s Google Sniper video and Manual. After you view his video you may come back to this page to learn how to upload your cloaked link to your site’s server.

UPDATE: It takes time to do cloaking if you follow Google Sniper’s method. Scroll down below to find Pretty Link Cloaking YouTube video tutorial — which makes cloaking very easy.

How to do it
Go to your computer’s desktop and right click. Select New from the small box. Then select Folder on the next small box that shows up.

Google Sniper  Desktop

Name your folder Recommends

Recommends Folder Google Sniper

Click Recommends folder to open
Click File, Select New, Select Text Document
Recommends Folder Google Sniper Select Text

Replace New Text Document with the name of the product you are promoting, then hit Enter button of your computer.
Recommends Folder Google Sniper New Txt

In my case I typed in GoogleSniper
Recommends Folder Google Sniper Txt Doc

Click GoogleSniper Text Document(or the product name of your choice) to open. Once it opens, you will see the header: GoogleSniper – Notepad. Find the cloaking code from Google Sniper Manual then copy and paste link cloaking code in GoogleSniper – Notepad.

Click File tab, select Save.

Recommends Folder Google Sniper php code

At this point I want you to refer George’s Google Sniper Course at his site to find out where to get your affiliate link and how to use the link cloak code. You will also learn how to track your links so that you will know which links that your visitors had clicked. Come back to this page to learn how to upload the affiliate link code to your server.
1. Module 6 – The Fastest Way To Cloak Affiliate Links video (at Google Sniper members site)
2. Google Sniper Manual page 71 – where you can find the link cloaking code. Make sure you copy and paste without missing a code and space.

Changing File Name Extension

After you insert your affiliate link in the cloaking code, click File, click Save.

Click Tools, select Folder Options,
Select Folder Options. A new box will show up.

Recommends Folder Google Sniper Options

Go to View settings.
Uncheck the box that says: Hide extensions for known file types
Click OK button

Recommends Folder Google Sniper View Options

Take Note: Now there’s a .txt added after the GoogleSniper

Recommends Folder Google Sniper Extensions

Right click on GoogleSniper.txt
Select Rename

Recommends Folder Google Sniper php

Replace txt with php
Recommends Folder Google Sniper rename php

A new box will pop up; click YES
Recommends Folder Google Sniper change ext

Final php script file
Recommends Folder Google Sniper final php file

Go to my tutorial section on the right side bar and click on How to Upload Google Sniper’s Affiliate Link Code to Bluehost.

Jan. 6, 2010 UPDATE: PRETTY LINK CLOAKING

I just found out that WordPress has a cloaking plugin. Here is the easiest way of cloaking. . . watch the video.



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