Here are some advantages of hiding affiliate links.
- User Friendly – When you add an affiliate link on your blog, visitors often get confused where they’re going to. If you are using third party affiliate links then the link becomes longer and it becomes more confusing. If a user hovers over a link and it is an internal link on the site they are more likely to click it
- Better recognition of links – if you publish your affiliate link on Youtube videos, then it will be easier for your audience to remember the link
- Easy to change – Sometimes you may need to change your affiliate links if the affiliate networks change their link structure. In this scenario the link the user sees on the page with not change; only the representation.
- Better SEO - Google does not like pages with lots of affiliate links
