What % Avoid Clicking Obvious Referral Links?

**PaperstreetWinston** · 04-30-2014, 05:26 PM

bump for answers

**wehateporn** · 05-01-2014, 03:20 AM

Originally posted by PDeluxe

bump for answers

And another

**CurrentlySober** · 05-01-2014, 03:31 AM

Are we talking surfers to sites, or webmasters avoiding webmaster referrals to sites?

**wehateporn** · 05-01-2014, 03:33 AM

Originally posted by CurrentlySober

Are we talking surfers to sites, or webmasters avoiding webmaster referrals to sites?

I'm more interested in surfers, but I would assume webmasters do it far more

**Nice_Nick** · 05-01-2014, 05:25 AM

Originally posted by wehateporn

I'm more interested in surfers, but I would assume webmasters do it far more

I can't understand why a webmaster would avoid using a ref link.

**ITraffic** · 05-01-2014, 05:30 AM

99.99% of surfers would have no idea what a referral link is. did you before you got into affiliate marketing?

**wehateporn** · 05-01-2014, 05:31 AM

Originally posted by Nice_Nick

I can't understand why a webmaster would avoid using a ref link.

I've heard some say they expect better bonuses from the program

**wehateporn** · 05-01-2014, 05:35 AM

Originally posted by ITraffic

99.99% of surfers would have no idea what a referral link is

Please can you link to that survey

Thing is, even if they don't know what it is, many have learned to be careful about what they are really clicking on, especially after all of the spam emails etc. If they see the strange referral code come up they might not click just to be safe, perhaps they can look for what is being promoted via Google instead.

**EddyTheDog** · 05-01-2014, 05:40 AM

There is a way of masking ref links in the browser - We used to do it back in the day with some simple javascript but that was stopped by the browsers - I have noticed that some sites are managing to do it again - I haven't looked into it but maybe that can be my job for the day...

**wehateporn** · 05-01-2014, 05:41 AM

Originally posted by EddyTheDog

There is a way of masking ref links in the browser - We used to do it back in the day with some simple javascript but that was stopped by the browsers - I have noticed that some sites are managing to do it again - I haven't looked into it but maybe that can be my job for the day...

Nice, let us know how you get on Eddy

**HomerSimpson** · 05-01-2014, 09:36 AM

just user yourls or or some kind of url shortener...

you'll get nicer links + click stats

contact me if you need help setting up stuff...

**Naughty Webby** · 05-01-2014, 10:17 AM

Yoast wrote a decent piece on the cloaking issue and how to do it.

https://yoast.com/cloak-affiliate-links/

What % Avoid Clicking Obvious Referral Links?

What % Avoid Clicking Obvious Referral Links?

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