Today’s Topics:
Link cloaking is the most basic feature and benefit of GoTryTHIS.
- What Is Link Cloaking And Semi-Cloaking?
- What Are The Benefits Of Publishing GoTryTHIS Cloaked Links?
1) What Is Link Cloaking And Semi-Cloaking?
When most people publish a link to a web site or other media such as a PDF, they simply cut-and-paste the link and publish it. Sometimes, if the link is big, you might use a link shrinking service like TinyURL.com to create a smaller link, which instantly redirects to the real link when clicked on.
Go ahead and click the following TinyURL example link and see how you are instantly redirected to a Google search for GoTryTHIS in a new window/tab. To cloak something is “to hide or disguise” it. I’m calling this example a semi-cloaked link, because you cannot tell where it leads to until you click on it.
Semi-Cloaked Example: http://tinyurl.com/dgqqna
A fully cloaked link is one where the destination web page is enclosed in a full-page frame at your URL. When you do this, you can specify your own window title, replacing the one created by the site, or let the site’s title be displayed. It also remains at the URL you specify, not the one from the site.
When you click on this next example, notice how it retains the URL in the link and has the custom title, “Google Results For GoTryTHIS” instead of the regular “Google” title.
Fully Cloaked Example: http://gotrythis.com/SearchGoogle
(A “frame” is like a window in your web page, which contains another web page, which can be any web page on the Internet. In the fully cloaked example, you’re on gotrythis.com/SearchGoogle, with a full page frame containing another web page, in this case Google’s.)
With GoTryTHIS you can quickly create fully custom semi-cloaked links, cloaked links, and other types of links, all of which are tracked in near real-time.
2. What Are The Benefits Of Publishing GoTryTHIS Cloaked Links?
Note: This is just one sub-section of GoTryTHIS Benefits!
a) Self Branding:
With services like tinyurl you advertise the tinyurl service right in the links you publish, every time you use it. It is terrific viral marketing and cudos to them, but as marketers, you might prefer to advertise your own site! GoTryTHIS instantly creates semi or fully cloaked links that all go through your sites instead of a third-party service.
b) Natural Looking
Cloaked links like the above one look like Real links look like yourdomain.com/something.html, and people are used to that. Some cloaking solutions put codes in like TinyURL above, or longer tracking codes with variables. Anything that looks like tracking code can reduce clicks, simply as that. GoTryTHIS uses natural looking links on your sites.
c) SEO freindly:
Search engines read the pages your links are published on, including the links. The more links that point to your web sites, the higher their search engine ranking becomes. As well, the keywords in the link help push up that link in the search results for those keywords. Depending on your settings, GoTryTHIS links can promote your web site and can be customized with whatever text you link in the link, with no codes or variables. (This means you can add SEO keywords into the redirect link, like mysite.com/keyword1/keyword2.html.)
d) Tracking:
Of course, when you redirect your links through GoTryTHIS, each click is tracked and graphed, with various details, which will be looked at in future articles.
e) Organization:
Finally, you can easily find your links through text searches, tags, various filters, and various sorting.
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