Link Redirecting Vs Link Cloaking

im getting the feeling lately that G is not loving the use of .php redirects for affiliate links…i think in the past, adding the rel=”nofollow” and robot.txt the ‘go’ folder was the way to do it (hide your affiliate links) but now G is able to analyze so much more about webpages than ever before so it can see then you are using a sneaky redirect to send trafffic away from the site, because the point of a php redirect for seo is to make the url looks to be an internal link…
What are the best options now? php jump script? .htacess? i have never had a site do well using the pretty link plugins, so i stay away from that.
I wish google would be clear to affiliates and marketers on this one (correct me if im wrong) we dont want to show are affiliate links because they look ugly and people are less likely to click on them..its not purely for seo reasons

In my opinion redirect a link is when you visit a particular page or website and it automatically forwards you to a different addresses. And cloaking affiliate links is the art of showing your visitors an internal link when they mouse over an affiliate link so that the visitor doesn’t think they are leaving your sites..

@mm smith 248139 wrote:

In my opinion redirect a link is when you visit a particular page or website and it automatically forwards you to a different addresses. And cloaking affiliate links is the art of showing your visitors an internal link when they mouse over an affiliate link so that the visitor doesn’t think they are leaving your sites..

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