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Review Samurai Stealth Cloaker
Welcome to a new category of posts at the CaymanHost blog where I am going to share reviews of products and services that I use in my internet marketing ventures. These will not be "opinions" but only reviews based on products that I have personal experience of.
To kick things off I am going to talk about a subject that still seems very popular and that is, the best way to cloak your affiliate links. A while back I did post about the methods I was using or had used in the past. If you missed it you can catch up on cloaking affiliate links here. Since writing that post I have continued to happily use my free Cloaker Buzz Elite (see the sidebar if you want a copy or download our toolbar to get it without optin) which does an admirable job and asserted that I would never pay for any kind of link cloaking software. Ah the famous last words of a fool eh?
Always on the look out for time saving tools and easier ways of doing things I felt sure there was a better way to not only cloak my links but make them more manageable. Affiliates will know that after a period of time the number of affiiate links they are using just grows and grows until it is almost impossible to keep up. I had reached this point when the software that is the subject of this review came to my notice.
Samurai Stealth Cloaker, I will say right off is a fantastic little script. Note the use of the word "script" - most of the cloakers out there, including Cloaker Buzz Elite, are windows based software. CBE is great but it still requires you to generate a file and upload it to your server for every link you create which is time consuming and not very efficient. Samurai Stealth Cloaker is different and is basically a small php file that you upload to your server. It takes minutes to do and then you are set to go. Cloaking any link is a simple case of logging into the admin panel, filling out a couple of boxes and you have your cloaked link. It's so easy and so quick I don't know how I managed without it until now.
The program allows you to choose exactly the kind of cloaking you wish to use, from a simple redirect to a fully secure encrypted link. Redirection to any web page of your choosing makes it a very powerful little tool and I'm loving its simplicity and ease of use.
The other advantage is that every cloaked link is stored in one file, making them immediately portable between domains. Each link also contains a basic but very useful counting tracker so you can see how many clicks your links are getting.
Another great bonus is the inclusion of a script for article marketers that completely solves the problem of affiliate links in places like Ezine Articles and that in itself is worth its weight in gold if you use article marketing to promote affiliate programs.
Before buying this tool, I bought another program for $97 and it turned out to be capable of nothing more than the free software I've used forever! I claimed a refund quickly but the point is, don't be fooled by the claims of most so called link cloaking programs. Most of them are a waste of money. Samurai Stealth Cloaker is the exception and is the best money I've spent in a while for a time saving marketing tool.
Cloaking links is essential if you are an affiliate. If you are not doing it already, I recommend you start off on the right foot with this excellent tool
The sales page is one of the most upfront I have seen in a while with detailed videos showing exactly what you are buying and how it works, enabling you to make a well informed buying decision. If only more software vendors were as transparent as Michael Andrews, the man behind Samurai Stealth.
So, there you have it if you've heard enough and are ready to grab your own copy you can head right on over and buy your copy of Samurai Stealth Cloaker at a discounted price for a limited time only. I endorse the product wholeheartedly for affiliates everywhere. It is a genuine bargain.
Buy Samurai Stealth Cloaker Now at the special limited time price
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(IMPORTANT NOTE - remember to test cloaked links to ensure that your affiliate link is being tracked correctly. Sometimes, depending on the merchant/affiliate network, certain forms of cloaking may cause failure to track your ID - fortunately with SSC this is rare).
tags: Samurai Stealth Cloaker, link cloaking, affiliate link cloaker, redirecting links, protedting affiliate links, hide affiliate links, cloak links
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Are You Cut Out For Blogging?
If you are going to start a blog, or interact on social networks for that matter, you do need to cultivate an ability to listen to other people's views.
In other words, just because you have found a platform on which to broadcast your thoughts to the world, you cannot expect everyone else to agree with what you have to say. Dynamic websites have made it possible for all of us with an internet connection to have our say - forums, blogs, social networking sites, article directories, wikis and more.
So, where is this post leading?
Well, I run a review site for hosting companies and the site has two aims. The first is to provide a useful resource for visitors and the second is to earn an income. It is a review site and I feel I owe it to visitors to give them as much information as I can about the companies listed, even if I am an affiliate for the majority of them.
This means publishing negative feedback about those companies as well as positive. Unlike many review sites there are no "top ten" lists that companies have paid to be on. To my mind that kind of thing would do my site and my visitors and subscribers a disservice (even if it might be very profitable). Nobody can tell anybody else, at least not with any authority, that there is a "best" company for their needs, as every webmaster and blogger has a distinctly specific set of requirements. People come to my site for information, often during the course of their purchase deliberations and I believe they are entitled to have access to balanced opinions about anyone they might be thinking of doing business with. I may draw the line at rants which might have legal implications for the poster, but I will always email them to explain my editorial decision.
With that in mind, let's return to the subject of the post. Most people who have blogged or used social networks will have come across people with whom they disagree. Sometimes such disagreements can get quite unpleasant as many people are emboldened by what they see as the anonymity granted by the internet (grin). Others are just downright rude and seem to have few qualms about social conventions or niceties and with that group there is little point engaging with them. However, if you publish anything online, there will be times when you will have to engage in debate and how you go about it on a public forum will say a lot about you to the people who read said debate.
When people resort to name calling and cussing, it suggests to me that their social skills are lacking and that their maturity and intelligence levels are perhaps not what they should be, but that's just me.
The point is this - you cannot expect everybody to agree with you and if you do, you are probably not cut out for blogging. If you blog for commercial reasons or with a view to making money from your efforts, you need to be prepared to accept occasional criticism. It's a fact of life and how you deal with it will say a lot about you to those who are standing on the sidelines.
Moving along, if you are going to run a "review" type site, you have to learn the difference between "review" and "opinion" and be open to those of others. The other day I commented on a blog where a writer had written a review of a company of whom I have been a customer for many years. The review was more "opinion" as the reviewer seemed to have no direct experience but, despite that, it was well written and some of the criticisms were fair. Overall, his opinion was negative. The post had one comment, from someone who went further and made several complaints about his experiences of said company. As a satisfied customer myself, I added my own comments to the thread detailing my own experiences. Rather than publish the comment and answer it, the owner of the site decided to nuke it.
I don't know about you, but this suggests an ulterior motive, an axe to grind or a hidden agenda and is a disservice to people who read this guy's blog. How can such a blogger be expected to be taken seriously? I don't dispute anyone's right to write about what they wish but to engage in outright censorship of anyone who posts a contrary view I find quite annoying. Ultimately it is any blogger's right to publish or decline to publish whatever he or she wants, but it is still something I think you need to think about if you want to engage your readers and visitors and have any kind of credibility, regardless of what you blog about.
Ultimately I believe that anyone who believes they are always right, who is not prepared to engage in discussion or who is not big enough to stand behind their own claims is not worth talking to, or about. Anonymous blog comments that attack or criticize others have to be taken with a pinch of salt too as far as I'm concerned. If you have an opinion you should have the cojones to put your name to it and be prepared to defend your mouth.
In my opinion, if you are not, maybe you are not cut out to be a blogger.
So what do you think? Have you ever found yourself being censored by another blogger (this excludes anyone who engages in spamming and the like) or forum owner for example? Have you ever been frustrated or annoyed by someone who prefers to delete your considered input than publish it and enter into discussion? How do you feel is the best way to deal with people you don't agree with?
Photo Credit Marco Wehe
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