Many affiliate links are long, ugly looking things that make savvy surfers think twice about clicking them. Wouldn't it be nice to dress them up a little or completely shorten them into something more memorable? Welcome to the dark world of link obfuscation and link masking aka hiding link addresses. There are two ways to make links more appealing: URL redirects URL masking Redirects are achieved through a script, a meta refresh, a URL rewrite or through a URL shortening service; and URL masking is done by adding a few extras to the <a> tags. URL Redirects When … [Read more...]