How to Cloak Affiliate Links With Short Branded Links in WB Ad Manager

How to cloak affiliate links in WB Ad Manager, the free WordPress plugin. Create a cloaked link under Links, Add New with Destination URL, Slug and Enable cloaking, set nofollow, sponsored and Expiration Date, sort links into Link Categories, and show links on a page with the link shortcodes. A simple WordPress link cloaker for affiliate links.

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In this tutorial you will earn from affiliate links with short links on your own domain. You need WB Ad Manager, the free plugin. It takes about 5 minutes. Four steps. Create a cloaked link. Set the link options. Sort links into Categories. Then show links on a page. Affiliate links are long, ugly and easy to skip, and some readers will not click them at all. A short branded link on your own domain looks trusted, so more readers click, and you earn more. Step one. Create a cloaked link. Under Links, Add New, give it a Name and the Destination URL, the long affiliate address. Slug is the short part, so your link reads your site, slash go, slash the slug. Enable cloaking keeps the long address out of sight. Then click Create Link. Step two. Set the link options. Add rel nofollow and add rel sponsored tell search engines it is an ad. Open in new tab keeps readers on your site. Expiration Date ends an offer by itself. Step three. Sort links into Categories. Categories, such as Affiliate and Sponsors, keep a long list tidy. Pick one in Category on each link. Step four. Show links on a page. The Add New Link form shows the links shortcode, which lists your links by category. Put it in a post or a page, and your branded links show as a clean list. That is all four. create a cloaked link, then set the link options, then sort links into Categories, then show links on a page. You can now do this job on your own site. Next in this series: Take sponsor requests and handle expired links.