Amazon Affiliate Localizer vs Cloaking Link: Which is Better?

Hi guys,

At the moment, I'm using Pretty Links to cloak all my amazon links on my site and everything is directed to Amazon.com.

However, here's a breakdown of my top countries for last month:

[TABLE="width: 486"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 117"]1[/TD]
[TD="class: xl25, width: 166"]United States[/TD]
[TD="class: xl26, width: 203"]12,528[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]2[/TD]
[TD="class: xl25, width: 166"]United Kingdom[/TD]
[TD="class: xl26, width: 203"]2,937[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]3[/TD]
[TD="class: xl25, width: 166"]Canada[/TD]
[TD="class: xl26, width: 203"]2,321[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]4[/TD]
[TD="class: xl25, width: 166"]Germany[/TD]
[TD="class: xl26, width: 203"]1,767[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]5[/TD]
[TD="class: xl25, width: 166"]France[/TD]
[TD="class: xl26, width: 203"]1,024[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]6[/TD]
[TD="class: xl25, width: 166"]Australia[/TD]
[TD="class: xl27, width: 203"]967[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]7[/TD]
[TD="class: xl25, width: 166"]Italy[/TD]
[TD="class: xl27, width: 203"]786[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


Which means that if I used a plugin to localize the visitors by IP using a plugin such as Amazon Link Localizer, I could target, close to 9,000 more visitors per month and I could get a potential 71% increase in revenues.

However, the Amazon Link Localizer isn't working with a link cloaker such as Pretty Links, which means that I have to choose one or the other.

I was just interested in knowing what you guys think I should do.

Would you drop the link cloaker and use the Amazon Link Localizer to get a boost in traffic or would you keep all of your site's link cloaked for discretion and to not get Google angry to see a lot of different affiliate links?

Thanks!

Try 1 better - do an A/B testing of homepage with localizer/pretty links.
Give it a shot for 7 or 14 days, keep the version that works better for you.
Or is your fear that Google might lower your ranking due the affiliate links?

Hi Tom, thank you for your reply. As you mentioned, my fear is that I might get a penalty for having too many affiliate links on the same page. At the moment, my site is ranking #1 for my main keyword and I wouldn't want to jeopardize that by removing the cloaked links.

Set up another site, using the other method, for a different keyword.
Can't have the cake and eat it too.
Worst case scenario, you'll make more money from ANOTHER site