Hello everyone. I was going to make a new post to ask my question, but thought I would ask on this post since it is semi-relevant.

So, I have never added any affiliate links to my site ever before, and I am totally new to this type of thing.

I chose a couple of affiliate arrangements I was happy with, and added the links to my site, some on the sidebar, some as part of content that is related to the product. Fine and dandy.

I have read about affiliate url hijacking though, in my reading / learning travels and need to learn how to combat that practice?
Would I need some sort of encrypter to scramble my affiliate links to stop hijacking?

The techniques above...they only mask the link when being hovered over or what is shown in the status bar, correct?

I apologize if I am asking in the wrong place, just wanted to know if I was correct in my assumption about the suggestions above only hiding the links to the hover and status bar.

If someone could point me in the direction of any information regarding the topic of combating hijacking the links I would appreciate that also.

Thanks for any help ahead of time and I will continue to read through the informative posts here.

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