Link Cloaking & Masking

What is link cloaking?

Link cloaking, sometimes called link masking, URL masking, URL cloaking is the process of hiding a user’s destination in the browser address bar, by showing the current landing page in an iFrame.

This is particularly useful for affiliate marketing, where you are trying to prevent the user from seeing an affiliate URL.

You can combine link cloaking with vanity URL, and use any URL you like for the cloaked page. This means using your domain with URL Shortify. URL Shortify is both a link shortener and a link cloaker.

This will allow you to show the user custom short links, instead of affiliate links, which increases trust, brand recognition, and most importantly, click-through rate.

Quick Walkthrough

Cloak URL Generation

How to use Link Cloaking in URL Shortify

1. Go to URL Shortify > Links

2. Create a New Link

3. Set Title & Target URL

4. Select the Redirection as Cloak

Cloak Redirection

Many websites now prevent cloaking

Many websites now prevent browsers from opening them an iFrame, the technology that enables link cloaking to work.

In this case, link cloaking won’t work.

Destination websites can set a meta tag called X-Frame-Option.

When this tag is set to DENY or SAMEORIGIN, browsers are prevented from opening a cloaked link.

This feature is available in URL Shortify PRO