When you enroll yourself in an affiliate and are willing to make money by referring your blog's visitors to a particular site through the affiliate link that you have posted in your post, it is better to hide that link with another link. It's just because when a potential customer hover's over the link, he can see that there is often a word in the link like "ref=2378283" or "Ref Id 2903ws9" etc. It gives a clear indication that the link is going to give you a monetary benefit. Even though the offer you posted was genuine, still the visitors may feel that this is a trick to earn money and it's a waste of time to them. So it is better if you hide the link behind the words you have written to be clicked in order to go to that particular website.

How Can You Do It?

Use a good site for link conversion. For example Tinyurl.com or Bit.ly (Which Twitter Uses). It gives you a unique small link in place of your original link and it is FREE.

Try it and avoid making a bad impression.

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As I had previously mentioned in my previous post, linking your blog posts with keywords you use in new posts is a great way to make the visitor engrossed in your blog for a longer time. Many authors write only half the article and link the other half to another post. I don't use this way because I feel that it's frustrating for the reader to go from one page to another just in the search of what he wants. I rather place links of some other related posts in my blog which the visitor might be interested in.

For example, if you have written a post on how to increase traffic to your blog, then you might place a link to another post on your blog about search engine optimization. This way, the reader finds everything he needs and is often satisfied.

Placing links within your blog to other posts of your blog has a few more advantages.

• It refers your visitors to older posts which many visitors usually don't have time to look to.
• In case someone tries to copy your article and place it on your blog, then your link also goes with it (unless he removes it manually that is). It is a feature in blogger that when you copy anything from a blog and paste it on another blog, everything goes with it, the headings, posts, points, pictures and the links. So even if someone took your post without your permission, he actually did a favor to you by giving a backlink to you!

So always remember to place links within your posts referring to more relevant posts in your blog.

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