Link Cloaking, What is it?

I hear a lot about “link cloaking” and that I should be hiding my affiliate links to keep them from getting hijacked. Is this true?
– Joe S.

What is Link Cloaking?
Link Cloaking is the technical practice of hiding an actual URL through a link on the local domain, or a through a benign third party domain.
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Search Engine Optimization is vital for an online business’ success.

There are no secrets on how to rank high with the major search engines because effective search engine optimizations are now immense. What is search engine optimization? Before we discuss that thing, you have to understand first how search engines work and a bit of know-how.
Search engines are into providing their users with the most [...]

TheSpew, Episode 6: Sometimes Technology Really Sucks

Listen above or download to iTunes.
I (@MissyWard) of Affiliate Summit moderated this week with panelists:

Lisa Riolo (@LisaRiolo), Internet Marketing Consultant

Karen Garcia (@KarenGarcia), Co-founder of GTO Management

Jen Goode (@JGoode), the Chief Doodler of JGoodeDesigns.com and Carolyn Tang (@catango), Director of Client Services at ShareASale, were our special guests this week.
Today’s episode reminded me of [...]

Changing Permalinks in Wordpress Doesn’t Have to be Scary

For a website owner who knows anything about search engine optimization, one of the scariest things in the world is changing the URL structure. Not only do you need to make sure the pages work on the new URLS, bu you have to make sure that all of your old urls properly redirect to [...]