I often see this question asked in the Warrior Forum and it is one that I had to spend some time figuring out myself:

“How do I cloak my affiliate links in Wordpress and do I need to?”

It is possible to use what is called a PHP redirect, which is simply a webpage that is saved as a .php file that has a bit of code in it to force a page to re-direct to a merchants page.  But I found an even easier way using a new plugin called Pretty Links.  Pretty Links gives you a visual and very clean way to mask your affiliate links and after talking to the author, Blair Williams, I am amazed at how easy the plugin is to use and how well he supports his plugin. Plus it is free and you just can’t beat that. I would pay for the plugin if he charged for it. Check out Pretty Link here:

http://blairwilliams.com/pretty-link/

And as to the question of wondering if you need to cloak your affiliate link, I would say yes.  Maybe not so much if your niches are outside of the Internet Marketing niche, but Pretty Link makes it easy, so you might as well, just to be safe.

I hope this helps speed up your website launch times!