Originally Posted by Publisher Bucks

You don’t have to cloak links, just throw them into a database and call them like site.com/?id=porn or whatever you want to use.

Cloaking doesn’t have to be a blackhat thing that uses redirects, if it’s done responsibly, the other benefit of this is that if you use the same links across a full network of sites, you only have to change an entry in the database and all of your links network wise will change automagically