I’ve written several articles, and written in several
of my ebook, on the importance of using promotional
domains when promoting affiliate products… and of
cloaking your links at times.
The biggest reason is that during many BIG affiliate
promotions, overly aggressive affiliates over-do it
and aggrevate a lot of people. This leads to a LOT
of spam complaints.
So, it’s not uncommon for the domain for a product
to be blacklisted during a major launch. That means
that spam filters can be triggered just by your email
containing that url! If I remember correctly, that did
happen with Product Launch Formula 1.
It has happened for numerous other launches that I’m
aware of and IS why you are advised over and over again
by affiliate program managers to use cloaked or
redirected links!
At the same time,there a people who will tired of
receiving an ezine and rather than unsubscribing,
they’ll drop an entire issue of the ezine into one of
the sites that accepts/process spam complaints.
For example, I once had an article running in a
very well-respected ezine with hundreds of thousands
of subscribers. My article was one of several in that
issue. A subscriber visited SpamCop (if I remember
correctly) and pasted the entire issue into their
complaint form.
The sites’ form parses emails and identifies EVERY email
address and url in the email that is complained about
as a spammer. So, just by having an article with my
url in the resource box, my domain was blacklisted.
While that does not sound fair, it’s the way a few
sites out there operate, and it can be nearly impossible
to get removed from some of these lists. The owner of
at least one of these sites has even received death
threats because he has adversely impacted so many
businesses, but his heavy-handed tactics continues.
So, you have been warned 
By the way, if you need a good place to get domains
inexpensively, I set this site up for clients where
I offer domains at VERY close to my costs:
http://WillieCrawford.com/domains/
I need to increase my price there
Willie
