Close to 50% of all people who have a website do so to make money as an affiliate marketer. A critical aspect of affiliate marketing is to hide or cloak your affiliate links for serveral reasons:

  1. If search engines know you have affiliate links on your pages you lose some authority or trust in the search engines eyes and your pages search placement can suffer. You can't trick search engines and most people with lame htaccess or php redirects.
  2. If you blog or sites visitors see affiliate links they won't click them. Understandably the visitor loses all trust in your recommendations and people just hate the idea of you making money off them.

The right way to hide your affiliate links so search engines and people don't know is Hide Affiliate Links From Google ...