In a previous post about using facebook to generate traffic to your website and leads into your business I talked about cloaking your links. This has sparked a lot of inbound emails and comments about what sites to use to cloak links.
In today’s post I will cover what site I use for link cloaking and how to do it…
…Before I do though, you may be wondering what link cloaking is, instead or re-hashing information that is widely available here are a few resources for you:
What Sites To Use for Link Cloaking?
I personally use a service called www.TinyURL.com and this is one of the most used services by Internet Marketers. It allows you to set up a url manually (you can suggest what the TinyURL will be) or you can have a url automatically generated by the service.
Here’s an example of an automated tinyURL:
Here’s an example of a manual tinyURL:
In my personal testing I have found that using a manual tinyURL will result in higher click through’s to my site or my offer.
There are many other services that you can use other than tinyURL and one that was launched only a few months ago is Joel Comm’s own service called TwitPWR. This service is more advanced than tinyURL and has some really funky tracking abilities. It is constantly being developed and is one cloaking service that you should keep an eye on.