Article Marketing is all the rage. But, an overlooked aspect is that you can place your own content in your own info directory. I have many of my articles intersperced with over 15000 other articles.

One of the things that folks seem to like is that I charge nothing for the service. No fee, no signup, no email, no spam, nothing but free information

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Everyone knows that affiliates lose a lot of sales. A raw affiliate link such as
"www.productsite.com/12345iergetututu" is easy to bypass. Simply highlight the top tier and go. The affiliate loses nothing tangible because he or she likely will never know it was done.

I cloak my links when appropriate. I also acknowledge that they are cloaked when asked. I explain that the above trick is only one method by which honestly due commissions go MIA.

I use two services.

The first is OffTo.Net They shorten your URL and allow you to add a tag to the end. It is not affiliate marketed except in the form of credits. Each link you make will be featured on their website on a rotating basis.

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Here is the code for cloaking your links using plain HTML. But, be advised that this is the least secure. If someone is determined to steal your affiliate links, then getting around this is easy.

Here is the code: Remove the left/right parenthesis marks to make it live.

(<)a onclick="parent.location.href='http://www.Affiliate-link';return event.returnValue=false"href=http://www.Display-Link&gtAnchor Text(<)/a(>)

Another link cloaking service I use when appropriate is ViralURL

They also shorten your URL and allow you to add a tag to the end. It is affiliate marketed and also has an upgraded membership option that most will like.

The big advantage of the upgrade is that you get to use their auto responder and mailer. This is great if you don't want to manage a listing machine.

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