I have heard so much about this. I read if you don't cloak your affiliate links, you may get stabbed in the back.
Link cloaking helps you hide your affiliate program link from your visitors. If it's too obvious that your link is an affiliate link, people might not click on it or they might go straight to the main url of the link. This means you will not receive a commission from these users even though you were the one who referred them. To solve this problem you can cloak your link; the link will point to the same url, but the status bar will not show that url to your visitors.
So can anyone shed some light on this . Should this be done?
Thanks ahead of time.
Richard