Affiliate link hijacking and affiliate link bypassing

First of all, the people who bypass your affiliate links are affiliate or internet marketers themselves. The large percentage of actual buying customers has no real clue what an affiliate link is or what it should look like. They are not personally engaged with any form of online business and therefore are not concentrating on looking at the URL address of the affiliate link. If you are selling a product or service for a specific market that is totally outside of the internet or affiliate mar

Thanks Phillippe. I'll watch for it.

Darlene, I send your comment. Andy Anderson gave very good reasons about not cloaking link. I will find the place where he posted it and give here the words to look for so that you can search them and find the blog

Most cloaked links can be unraveled by simply looking at the source page of the web site. Lots of information can be determined about a web site doing this. I think time is the biggest discouragement of a hijacker. Time is also money. To spend 10-15 minutes unraveling a cloaked link is costing that person from doing other more white hat activities. Don't worry about them. They end up biting themselves regardless as they usually swim with other sharks of their own elk.

A thief will always try to steal regardless of the exotic names we give them. An affiliate link hijacker is a thief just like his brother the affiliate link bypasser. That is their motivation.

HI Mark here You are correct it is a dastardly deed for people to do that, I have found a program that not only cloaks your affiliate links, but pays you to use their service- even if no one clicks to view ,join, or order your product or service you still get a little something. It's called "linkbucks.com" It solves the problem by putting your site in a frame- a viewer has to wait a few seconds for your page to be displayed and the Url gives no clue as to your destination Site! Free to sign up!

Very nice topic and people should think of others and stop that nonsense, it's too much work for someone to just come and benefit from it for free by hijacking your links, it's wrong and it should stop.
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hi linda i am aware of this issue that is why i joined viral url b/c it protect my links and my commission by cloaking my affiliate url. your blog is so informative.

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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.

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 inte

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 b

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! :)

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!

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 st