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Email Marketing Information3 Route To Finish Affiliate Link "Hijackers"
by:
Jim Edwards
(c)2002 Jim Edwards - all right reserved
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Let's face the facts!
Almost everyone online now is looking to do or save a buck any way they can. In the past, most of the folk who clicked on your affiliate links used to purchase without a second thought... but, as times get tougher online, it seems a growing number won't!
As money gets tighter and product prices rise, folk who cognize how to manipulate the system wish sometimes replace your affiliate ID with theirs and "hijack" your commissions.
Here's an example:
Let's say your affiliate link is www.ebookaboutcats.com/?live-well.
Say the highjacker uses the affiliate ID of captain-hook. What he would-be do is replace your ID with his, and buy from the URL www.ebookaboutcats.com/?captain-hook.
The bottom line: the hijacker puts your money in his pocket.
In another cases, they can't stand the thought of you "making money off them" so they bypass you by just chopping off the end of your affiliate link that contains your ID.
Instead of purchasing from www.ebookaboutcats.com/?live-well, the bypasser wish just "chop off" the affiliate ID at the end and just buy from the plain URL www.ebookaboutcats.com --without your affiliate ID attached!
Either way, you get cheated out of your rightful commission.
To help you fight these affiliate link hijackers I offer a couple of my better (proven and battle tested) tips, which wish at least confuse these "hijackers" and, in galore cases, often defeat and disarm them completely.
Side Note: If person really, actually wants to steal your affiliate commission, they wish find a way; however, most hijackers are just opportunists who wish only act if they see an easy buck.
The 1st and cheapest way to hide your affiliate links is exploitation a javascript airt page. This is wherever
you hide your affiliate link in a page on your site exploitation a simple javascript that redirects folk to your affiliate link.
It works great not to expose your "naked" affiliate link in your actual email messages and ezine ads, but, once folk get redirected to the true affiliate link, galore affiliate programs expose the affiliate link on
with your ID in the browser address bar.
Here's an example of a airt script in action. Click => http://www.ebookfire.com/esejs.html
Notice how the link takes you to a page wherever
you can see my affiliate ID, ebookfire, in your web browser's address bar.
Like it or not, person can replace my ID with theirs and "hijack" the commission... but at least the airt script keeps them from instantly seeing my "naked" affiliate link (http://hop.clickbank.net/?ebookfire/ebksecrets) once
I publish it in my newsletter, email, or on my website.
You can get free airt scripts just just about anyplace
you find free javascripts. Here is the script I use http://www.ebookfire.com/jrs.shtml.
A better way to hide your affiliate links is exploitation a zero-frame or "invisible" frame that masks the affiliate link by devising it appear you are causing folk to a page on your website. In reality, you are actually causing them to your affiliate link.
This is the technique used by those "sub-domain" airt services that provide you with urls like http://ese.ebookfire.net.
While giving person a link like that is more better than exploitation a "naked" affiliate link such as http://hop.clickbank.net/?ebookfire/ebksecrets, there is a problem. As shortly as person makes a "view >> source" in their web browser they'll see your naked affiliate link plain as day... which instantly blows your cover!
Currently the better way to protect your affiliate commissions from pitiless hijackers is to use a combination of a zero- frame page on
with URL encryption. This involves causing person to URL that looks like a page on your site, but actually pulls in your affiliate link like those "sub- domain" services. However, there's one critical difference...
If person makes a "view >> source" in their browser, you have accessorial protection in that all they wish see is a jumble of computer code instead of your naked affiliate link.
Check out this example of a zero-frame with URL encoding in action. Click => http://www.ebookfire.com/ese.html
Side Note: Mind of cloaking scripts that use javascript to mask your affiliate link because they could malfunction in several web browsers.
Here's the bottom line: if you are going to sell through another people's affiliate programs, ne'er
send a "naked" affiliate link... you're just asking for folk to hijack or bypass you if you do.
If you want to get paid more often through your affiliate links, do sure it's not obvious you're referring folk to an affiliate link. If they can't easily see how to hijack or bypass your link, a lot more folk who would-be have taken the money out of your pocket wish just go ahead and buy through your link - which is, after all, the whole point! :-)
Just just about the author:
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper editorialist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that wish teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly driving thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links...
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