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It's Magic
Bob Chambers
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Here's a tool that really changes how you can do business and it even saves you time and money. For some time I've had to hide my affiliate links behind a simple redirect.

Let me tell you what a "redirect" is.

On the Internet when you click on a link you're taken to that web page. But since you can move through the web at lightening speed (when you're on broadband), often you'll be sent to one website and redirected to another.

This was probably first used when someone changed their website or removed a page. Instead of just letting you get an error message they created a simple code that was a redirect to another page or website. Redirects look like this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://bobsnuggets.com/index.html">

And the redirect is inserted at the top of your web page before you get to the body. If you're not familiar with how the HTML code looks for a web page, just go to Internet Explorer and go to View > Source or in Netscape go to View > Page Source. The page you get is in HTML.

Now to create a redirect page and have it work you have to first create the web page, then upload it to your website via WS_FTP, then you have to remember where you put it and use the new link.

Until today!

There is a new software program available that makes it real easy to create your links. And the link is "cloaked" so that no one can break the code.

For those of you who have joined affiliate programs and send information out to others about using those products, you know that when many people see an affiliate link they often drop off your "affiliate" link and go directly to the source. Thus you lose out on making the sale.

And since it doesn't cost the buyer anymore if they give you the sale or not, it doesn't make a lot of sense why they do that.

But they do.

The Affiliate Cloaker changes that.

And the best part is that this software makes the affiliate linked website look like it's on your own website.

What to see it in action?

Go to http://bobsnuggets.com/cloak.html and you'll see just what I mean.

Look at the address in your browser and you'll see the link I gave you. But you'll actually be on the software page's sales letter.

The best part is that you can create these cloaked affiliate links really fast. And the software actually uploads your links to your website. It's a "no brainer" piece of software.

I must have made about 30 links in less than 30 minutes. I don't get too excited about most new software I see because it often doesn't work the way it's supposed to.

But this one is really something to get excited about. Plus the software tutorial is very good and easy to follow.

By the way, http://bobsnuggets.com is one of my new websites. You might want to check it out since it's got a lot of great tools listed for you.

I'll be telling you how I created this website tomorrow.


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