Question about linking to affiliate products

This post has been de-listed

It is no longer included in search results and normal feeds (front page, hot posts, subreddit posts, etc). It remains visible only via the author's post history.

Post Flair (click to view more posts with a particular flair)

Question

Post Body

I have seen on many blogs and affiliate sites that when a publisher uses an affiliate link, they use a redirect instead of the actual link.

For example, if you were linking from your blog post to an iPhone case on Amazon then instead of using the long link provided by Amazon, you'd use your own domain to redirect to the Amazon product page such as:

yoursite.com/iphone-case (or something along those lines)

I've done a quick Google search and it seems like this is called "Cloaking affiliate links"

Do you guys use this method? If so, why?

Author

Account Strength

90%

Account Age

7 years

Verified Email

Yes

Verified Flair

Total Karma

3,283

Link Karma

1,071

Comment Karma

2,182

Profile updated: 4 days ago

Posts updated: 1 year ago

goonsquadpredator

Subreddit

r/juststart

Post Details

We try to extract some basic information from the post title. This is not always successful or accurate, please use your best judgement and compare these values to the post title and body for confirmation.

Posted: 2 years ago
Reddit URL: View post on reddit.com
External URL: reddit.com/r/juststart/c...