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A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing: Quick Reference for Affiliate Manag...
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The day I agreed to take on the Affiliate Program Manager position at the company I worked for, I realized that I had some learning to do. I quickly found a bunch of different resources online that ...
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No solid information is given in this book. A vague idea is presented, and then the authors give a link to one of thier websites. It is almost as if they wrote this book to get more traffic to thier ...
Affiliate Millions: Make a Fortune using Search Marketing on Google and Beyond
Amazon Price: $16.47
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
As someone who has spent over a decade on the Internet, I understand the fundamentals of the building of a tool or the utilization of a tool that can be used to generate money online. If you underst...
A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing: Quick Reference for Affiliate Manag...Amazon Price: $19.79
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
The day I agreed to take on the Affiliate Program Manager position at the company I worked for, I realized that I had some learning to do. I quickly found a bunch of different resources online that ...
The E-Code: 33 Internet Superstars Reveal 43 Ways to Make Money Online Almost...Amazon Price: $13.57
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
No solid information is given in this book. A vague idea is presented, and then the authors give a link to one of thier websites. It is almost as if they wrote this book to get more traffic to thier ...
Affiliate Millions: Make a Fortune using Search Marketing on Google and BeyondAmazon Price: $16.47
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
As someone who has spent over a decade on the Internet, I understand the fundamentals of the building of a tool or the utilization of a tool that can be used to generate money online. If you underst...
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AffiliCloak: Affiliate Link Cloaker
Beware Affiliate Link Hijackers!If you make money from affiliate marketing, you need protection. Spyware, browser toolbars, and other programs installed on the computers of your site's visitors may be removing your affiliate ID from your affiliate links and replacing it with their own, stealing your commissions. Or your site's visitors may be substituting their affiliate ID for yours to get a commission on their own purchases. And, strange but true, some of your visitors may be manually chopping your affiliate ID off of your affiliate links just because they don't want you to get a commission!
My Most Successful Affiliate Links Are Not Cloaked!
An alternative to hiding your affiliate links by cloaking them is to make people want to click them by offering a free bonus product when they buy through your link.
For more information and a tool that I use to automate delivery of my bonus products, check out Fast JV.
How widespread is the problem?
No one knows for sure, but I've seen estimates as low as 1% and as high as 30%!
Update: According to a recording I just listened to this morning,
Mike Filsaime once tracked a ClickBank promo he was running and found that someone else
(likely the buyer) had gotten credit for over 40% of sales where the buyer had originally clicked his link.
And Gary Ambrose tested one of his promos and found that he was losing over 50% of commissions!
With free and inexpensive protection options available,
there's no reason to remain unprotected.An alternative to hiding your affiliate links by cloaking them is to make people want to click them by offering a free bonus product when they buy through your link.
For more information and a tool that I use to automate delivery of my bonus products, check out Fast JV.
"Affiliate link cloaking"* is the name given to various technique that enable you to disguise your affiliate links to prevent these problems. AffiliCloak enables you to replace your easily recognizable (and thus easily hijackable) affiliate links like this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471381861/moulc
with unique, protected links, like this:
http://WhiteHatCrew.com/moreinfo/a/0471381861
When someone clicks the protected link, AffiliCloak redirects them to the affiliate link, bypassing link hijacking software. The link above points to the book "Affiliate Selling: Building Revenue on the Web" on Amazon.com. Click below to see AffiliCloak in action:
Affiliate Selling: Building Revenue on the Web
Once AffiliCloak is installed, creating affiliate links is easy. Unlike some (most?) link cloakers, you don't have to create a new file for each cloaked link (for example, with the link above, there is no file named "0471381861" at "http://WhiteHatCrew.com/moreinfo/a/"). You just create the link with a code identifying the affiliate program (eg. "/a/" is for Amazon.com), and the ID of the product you're linking to (eg. "0471381861"). AffiliCloak intercepts and redirects the click.
To download AffiliCloak, use the form at the top of the middle column of this page.
* Affiliate link cloaking is completely unrelated to search engine cloaking, which is a black hat technique for spamming search engines, and which I strongly recommend you avoid for both ethical and business reasons.