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I have been noticing threads who are asking about What is Cloaking and why do we use Cloaking Services in order to do Affiliate Marketing...
I decided to compile some data related to Cloaking so members can take advantage in one GO from this thread and get the basic idea about it.
What is Cloaking?
Cloaking means you show one landing page to a certain percentage of the audience, and a different landing page to the rest.
Here are some scenarios where you might want to cloak:
Banned Offers
Want to run an offer that’s banned on a traffic source? Lets use Bing as an example traffic source, and health supplement as the offer.
You can’t show the reviewers the supplement landing page because you’ll get banned, so instead the cloaker will detect if someone is working for Microsoft, and it sends them to another page of your choosing. You can send to any page, but we’ll go with an Health Related Association Website. However, the cloaker sends your real targeted prospect when he/she clicks on an ad to your “real” landing page which is your affiliate offer in Health Supplement Industry.
Banned Landing Page Techniques:
Perhaps you want to get really aggressive with your landing page to increase your conversion rates. Maybe techniques such as exit pops or GEOIP scripts are not allowed so cloaking the reviewers can send them to an alternative page instead.
How Do Cloakers Work?
Each cloaker has their own technology and some work better than others. Here are some of the basic methods they use.
The Downsides of Cloaking
Which Cloaking Services are Good?
On the Web there are very few of them, but the trend of this function is growing.
Cloaking services:
NoIPFraud
Closed private service. You have to pay sign up fees plus monthly fees as well.
Signup Fee
When you first join Noipfraud, there is a signup fee in addition to your normal membership fee.
Signup fee basic plan = $500
Signup fee pro plan = $250
Pricing plans
Here are the plans we currently offer.
JustCloakIt
The service offers a safe way to receive traffic for various affiliate offers such as diet, weight loss, gambling, dating and more through Facebook ads, advertising in Bing, Google Ads, Google Play and so on. JustCloakIt is a powerful service that can filter out bad traffic in the form of bots, data centers, spy-tool.
They offers different packages which ranges from $399 to $1999 per month.
Trafficarmor
Block unwanted visitors in a minute! The service has a powerful and flexible traffic filtering platform, ensuring full protection of your land. Installation takes no more than 2 minutes, and the minimum monthly price starts at $ 129 per month.
Fraudfiler formerly known as Fraudbuster :
Another cloaker which many affiliate marketers use and the set up process is easy as well. The prices of this service starts from $199/mo.
There are few other services as well but they do not work properly and have a very low success rate...
The data is compiled from Different sources across the web. I did not wrote it myself.
I decided to compile some data related to Cloaking so members can take advantage in one GO from this thread and get the basic idea about it.
What is Cloaking?
Cloaking means you show one landing page to a certain percentage of the audience, and a different landing page to the rest.
Here are some scenarios where you might want to cloak:
Banned Offers
Want to run an offer that’s banned on a traffic source? Lets use Bing as an example traffic source, and health supplement as the offer.
You can’t show the reviewers the supplement landing page because you’ll get banned, so instead the cloaker will detect if someone is working for Microsoft, and it sends them to another page of your choosing. You can send to any page, but we’ll go with an Health Related Association Website. However, the cloaker sends your real targeted prospect when he/she clicks on an ad to your “real” landing page which is your affiliate offer in Health Supplement Industry.
Banned Landing Page Techniques:
Perhaps you want to get really aggressive with your landing page to increase your conversion rates. Maybe techniques such as exit pops or GEOIP scripts are not allowed so cloaking the reviewers can send them to an alternative page instead.
How Do Cloakers Work?
Each cloaker has their own technology and some work better than others. Here are some of the basic methods they use.
- IP Collection – The software has a database of the IP addresses of the reviewers. This can be as simple as launching a campaign, pausing it, and recording any IP’s that visit the page.
- Referral URL’s – If someone is coming from dev.facebook.com, it’s probably a reviewer.
- GeoIP – This method is quite simple. If you’re running traffic in Italy, then only allow traffic from Italy. Sometimes the traffic source reviewers are in UK or USA, and they’re not going to be able to see your page unless they have an Italian IP address.
- Ban the city – Does the traffic source only have reviewers based in Montreal, Canada? Then they can just block any visitors from Montreal.
The Downsides of Cloaking
- Expensive – Some cloakers want you to pay a one time registration fees plus a monthly fees will also apply which normally starts from $197 and go over $1000...
- Bleed Rate – The cloakers are NOT perfect. You’re going to have “legit” visitors that the cloaker will mistaken as a reviewer. The bleedrate can be as high as 15%. If your campaign is spending $1,000 a day, that means it’s possible that you’ll lose $150 a day because of the cloaker. Is your campaign profitable enough to handle that?
- Losing Your Accounts – A common situation with using Cloakers is you always carry a risk of getting BANNED because ADVERTISING platforms are continuously building systems and training their reviewers to go through in deep whether the campaign you are running have cloaking set up or not.
Which Cloaking Services are Good?
On the Web there are very few of them, but the trend of this function is growing.
Cloaking services:
- NoIPFraud
- JustCloakIt
- Trafficarmor
- Fraudfiler
NoIPFraud
Closed private service. You have to pay sign up fees plus monthly fees as well.
Signup Fee
When you first join Noipfraud, there is a signup fee in addition to your normal membership fee.
Signup fee basic plan = $500
Signup fee pro plan = $250
Pricing plans
Here are the plans we currently offer.
- Pause: $47 a month, freezes your click balance but you can't run traffic
- Basic: $197 for 50,000 clicks, renews every month
- Standard: $297 for 150,000 clicks, renews every month
- Pro: $597 for 600,000 clicks, renews every month
- Enterprise: $500 for 600,000 clicks, renews every week
- Mad Volume: $997 for 1,250,000 clicks, renews every 2 days
JustCloakIt
The service offers a safe way to receive traffic for various affiliate offers such as diet, weight loss, gambling, dating and more through Facebook ads, advertising in Bing, Google Ads, Google Play and so on. JustCloakIt is a powerful service that can filter out bad traffic in the form of bots, data centers, spy-tool.
They offers different packages which ranges from $399 to $1999 per month.
Trafficarmor
Block unwanted visitors in a minute! The service has a powerful and flexible traffic filtering platform, ensuring full protection of your land. Installation takes no more than 2 minutes, and the minimum monthly price starts at $ 129 per month.
Fraudfiler formerly known as Fraudbuster :
Another cloaker which many affiliate marketers use and the set up process is easy as well. The prices of this service starts from $199/mo.
There are few other services as well but they do not work properly and have a very low success rate...
The data is compiled from Different sources across the web. I did not wrote it myself.
Hopefully, this thread will answer many frequently asked questions 
