Many people are trying to earn a living, or make a little extra money only, with affiliate marketing.

One of the things that can make it tough is that there are people out there who seem to delight in ’stealing’ your affiliate commission if they can. For various reasons as soon as some people see that a link is an affiliate link they delight in trying to prevent the affiliate from getting paid.

There are ways to make this harder for the digital thieves, but sometimes those ways can be harder for you, too. And if a security system isn’t easy to use you probably won’t use it.

I’ve bought many link cloakers in my time and ended up never using most of them because they’re so difficult to use. Eventually, I actually learned how to create a cloaked link in php and started doing them myself.

For anyone who doesn’t want to spend time learning about php and programming, but wants a simple link cloaker system that just works, I now offer my PLRNicheprofits Link Cloaker software. It’s absolutely free. All you have to do to get your copy is visit plrnicheprofits.com

You have to sign up for the newsletter and I’ll email you from time to time with more information, but you can’t beat the price. $0 is a pretty round number, after all!

You don’t have to use it just to cloak affiliate links: you can also use it as a rudimentary link shortening tool as well. And you can use it to cloak links on your own site. After all, it might be easier for a potential customer to type www.yourdomain.com/mondayoffer rather than www.yourdomain.com/offers/2008/March/23/plrarticles.html

Which would you rather use?

There’s another benefit, which anyone who’s been promoting affiliate products for a while will recognize. Say you’re promoting a book on golfing tips. What do you do if that site ever goes out of business? You have to change all your links in your advertising and websites.

But if you cloak the link to a page on your own site, you can change that page as many times as you like. So if you ever need to send your visitors to a different golf affiliate program they’ll still visit the same page on your site.

Think about that for a moment.

Your visitors will visit the same page on your website, even if you decide to switch affiliate programs! That’s an invaluable benefit. It means you get to control where your visitors go for a particular topic.

Don’t underestimate the usefulness of that facility - it can make you a lot of money over the years.