Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Your Commission Checks Are Being Ripped Off!

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways to make some extra money with an existing website or newsletter.  You send visitors to the seller's site, they buy products, and you get a commission for giving them the sale.  Well ... it's not quite that simple anymore.

If a visitor that understands Internet marketing sees that your link is an affiliate link, they can substitute their own unique ID for that program and take YOUR commission away from you.  Essentially, the visitor ends up giving themselves a discount for that product with your money!  @#!*!

There are lots of affiliate link cloaking tools around, but any savvy web user can decipher the cloaking and still crack you link.  What's the solution?  How about a domain name with unlimited subdomains, each of which will redirect to a different affiliate link, cloaked inside of an invisible frame?  Still not foolproof, but much harder to crack than most other protection tools.  This solution also gives you the flexibility of recording your affiliate links only one time and assigning them short, easy-to-remember names. 

If you're not hiding and protecting your links you are losing money every day!

 

 


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