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Affiliate link hijacking and affiliate link bypassing
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The Dirty Little Secret That Nobody Ever Talks About! Affiliate link hijacking and affiliate link bypassing are the dirty little secrets of Internet marketing that no one ever talks about. * Hijacking is what happens when someone replaces your affiliate id with theirs in the affiliate link. Let’s say your affiliate ID is live-well and the product site is www.ebookaboutcats.com. Then your affiliate link would be www.ebookaboutcats.com/?live-well. Say the highjacker uses the affiliate ID of captain-hook. What he would do is replace your ID with his, and buy from the URL www.ebookaboutcats.com/?captain-hook. The bottom line: You don’t get your commission, and the hijacker puts your money in his pocket, in the form of a discount, by buying through his own affiliate link. * Bypassing is what happens when someone sees an affiliate link and is either unfamiliar and uncomfortable with it, or just can’t stand the idea of your getting a commission (even though you’ve done the work to put the information in front of them). So instead of buying from www.ebookaboutcats.com/?live-well, the bypasser will simply “chop off” the affiliate ID at the end and simply buy from the plain URL www.ebookaboutcats.com --without your affiliate ID attached! The bottom line is the same: Once again, you’ve been robbed of your affiliate commission. Unfortunately, as long as people can see an affiliate code in the link that you offer them, a certain number of them are destined to hijack it – or bypass it. And either way, you lose. To see a diagram what hijacking and bypassing look like Click Here! Linda welch Get Free Google Ads. clickbank |
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| I have heard of that, but I don't get it. If you are an affiliate, why would you have to do that? Can you explain, it just seems that one would merely buy from their on links. |
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| OUI ..this is a nightmare, it ain't Kosher and I'm not Jewish. LMAO
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| CLOAKERS DO NOT WORK unless they take the prospect to your own landing page, your own sales letter and your own sales page.
Cloaked urls are just as obviously affiliate links (that's why they are cloaked) as a plain affiliate link so anybody criminal enough to want to steal your commission from you would simply close their browser, once they discover the web site - and go direct to the web site. They might even clear cookies before doing that if they are determined enough! It would be interesting to know what motivates these bat-blind morons. A free programme I have promoted has now had at least eleven sign ups from my ad that I have not been credited with. Just what do they think they are gaining? p.s. Why are they so brain dead that they not only sign up on my recommendation but THEN send MY UNIQUE email to ME to try to get ME to sign up under THEM? The Old Coot |
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| Any of my real friends should know by now if they need anything at all I will help however I can.
As far as cloakers go, I probably have at least three different ones I could be using already, but regardless as far as I am concerned I don't even want the business of someone who would steep to these SHALLOW, POINTLESS and STUPID tactics...and I sure as heck don't want them in my downline either! So again, for the most part I am dealing with people one on one...COMMUNICATING WITH THEM and building Long Term RELATIONSHIPS....I know...dull, crazy time-consuming concept that goes against everything that is being taught, isn't it? LOSE Your Inhibitions |
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| I recommend the practice of cloaking your links, these days it's tough enough to make a sale as it is... There are several very good cloaking programs that members throughout Apsense utilise, so you can at least have a look at few that your friends recommend! :)
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| This is one reason I have moved more to programs where I deal with people first hand...I'm damn well sick of the cronies who hid behind their computer screens!
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| Unless there is a massive outcry by Affiliates for these Guru Website Owners to stop anyone from signing up at the companies main domain, this problem will always be here and we will have to buy a cloaking product to protect our links sold by the gurus. Jeunelle's World |
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| Hi, Linda,
I have raised this subject in other blogs and I am still trying to work out if people do this because the gurus told them that they could! Would it ever have occured to anybody that a link could be mutilated if some guru had not invented a link cloaker and sold it with the terror tactic of "your commissions are being stolen". The best link cloaker in the world is no good if the final destination is a web site with it's name in nice big letters at the top. These commission stealing ingrates will simply close the site and then visit it directly. You have to question the sanity of these people, don't you? They pay the same price for a product, send all the money to the principal and deny commission to those who actually earned it - AND THEN THEY WILL COMPLAIN BECAUSE THEIR COMMISSIONS ARE BEING STOLEN if the same thing happens to them! Go figure! The only way that these thieves can be stopped is by the affiliate master having a simple change made to his site. NOBODY should be able to buy directly from the site without a valid affiliate link. Some sites do this already - but far too few. As for those who hi-jack your link, maybe the technology is available for purchases through your own link (on a single product site, especially) to be randomly allocated to another affiliate. The Old Coot |
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| Yup this is a problem alright not to mention if someone doesn't like you and knows you personally and just don't want to give you the sale so they sign up without your affiliate link. Bastards. Clocking is a must if you don't want your sale stolen. Great blog Linda Jeunelle's World |
