Comment on Cloak Affiliate Links Tutorial by SEO Dave.
You should see whatever is in the id=”” part of the link code, so if a redirected URL you see the redirect URL in the status bar. So it’s working.
There is a way to hide a link destination in the status bar, but not tried it with this script so not sure if it would work. Search in Google for “hide url of link in status bar”. I’ve no idea if it will work with the javascript added to Stallion.
I don’t use that type of technique on my sites, don’t see the need for it.
David
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URL to the site this is on?
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