Well cloaking links means that instead of using the big, long affiliate link that you’re given by a program that has question marks and numbers and equal sign and all that kind of stuff and looks like it’s an affiliate link, what you’re doing is you’re making an alternative link so it’s a little bit friendlier, maybe it doesn’t make it so obvious that you are promoting an affiliate program. I think it’s very important that you cloak your links but not for the reason that you think. It’s not so essential in my mind that you cloak your links because you want to make it look less like an affiliate link.