Product Review : Affiliate Armor

Affiliate Armor (also sold as Click Bank Guard) is an affiliate link cloaker that uses a technology I've not seen in any of the several other "cloakers" that I've tried. The author claims that his technology makes the resultant links all but impossible to "hijack" or hack into. At the very least, one would expect his method to be harder to hack simply because it's different from the other methods in use.

Installation of this utility was fairly straightforward, and took me only a few minutes, but I wonder whether someone less familiar with computers, the internet, and web site files would be equally undaunted. Unlike other cloakers which reside on the desktop, Affiliate Armor requires that you modify and then upload several files to your server. No big deal, assuming you can use a simple text editor, and know how to use FTP.

Other than that, I found Affiliate Armor easy to use, and reassuring, since there is no obvious page for a potential "hijacker" to download or try to hack into. Whether cloaking is necessary at all, I personally don't know, but the advocates of it claim that something like 40% of affiliate sales are "hijacked" when the affiliate URL is openly displayed, either on the page, or in the status bar. Advocates also claim that shorter links that are not obviously affiliate URLs have much higher "click-through" rates.

If either of these claims are true, Affiliate Armor takes care of it, apparently in a unique way, and the price is quite modest compared to most of the other cloakers on the market. I haven't required any technical support, so I don't know how responsive it is, but before buying I did email the program developer with a question, and received a very prompt reply.

Learn more about Affiliate Armor here.