It is important to use some method to disguise or cloak your affiliate links. If you are not using any cloaking methods at all, it is almost certain that you are losing money every month. Research shows that the theft of affiliate commissions’ amounts to about 20% of all affiliate sales. Some researchers indicate that this number may be much higher, around 70%. Either way, it represents a huge number.
So how do the thieves do it? Generally these robbers go to your web page and view your source code. Once there, they locate the URL related to your affiliate links. They copy this information and create a new URL by replacing your affiliate ID with their own. They have cheated you, all your work was done for nothing and the commission that was rightfully yours is paid to the thief.
All the energy and time spent on doing research to determine which product is best for your business, finding the right product at the right price, creating a suitable landing page to generate revenue; it all goes down the drain because of a cheat, an affiliate link thief who found your site and stole your profits. And the saddest part is, you probably didn’t even know that they were doing it.
It is very important to protect your commissions from being stolen, so what is the solution? You need to find a suitable way to hide your affiliate links. The method is called cloaking and is actually quite simple.
There are a number of good software products available that enable you to cloak your affiliate links. There are also some workable free alternatives. Do a search on the term, “affiliate link cloaking and you will find a large number of websites devoted to cloaking. So if you really want to increase your revenue with affiliate sales, give this simple method a try and you will see your profits increase.
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
How to Easily Increase Your Affiliate Profits by 30%
Selling affiliate products is a great way to start a new online business. It’s free to get started and you can begin making money right away! But there are some pitfalls along the way. One of the biggest problems in the affiliate marketing area is theft. It is estimated that the average marketer experiences a 30% loss of affiliate revenue due to theft!
A good question that puzzles many new website owners suffering this fate is, “how does it happen”? The answer is straight forward; thieves view the source code of your web page and easily obtain the URL of the affiliate links along with relevant details. They replace Your affiliate ID with their own ID and create a new affiliate link. Then they use this new link to purchase the product. The result is, you lose a commission and the thief gets a discount. Most affiliate marketers are not even aware that they were robbed.
So how do you protect yourself against these thieves? The best way to protect your affiliate profits is to cloak your links. A good cloaking system hides your affiliate ID from these dishonest individuals. There are several cloaking techniques that you can use to protect your profits.
The first and easiest is to use is Tinyurl. This web service is free and is very easy to use. You simply go to the website and enter your affiliate URL into the text box. They’ll provide you with an alternate URL for that link. The new link that they provide effectively hides your affiliate ID. There are many other companies that provide the same type service but this is among the most well known.
There is also software available that will cloak your links. Some of the software is quite expensive but inexpensive options also exist. So, stop those affiliate thieves in their tracks. Take back the 30% that they’ve been stealing and protect your profits with affiliate links.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Increase Affiliate Sales with A Very Simple Technique
If you are not using some type of affiliate cloaking method, you are probably losing money every month. Studies indicate that the theft of affiliate commissions amounts to at least 20% of affiliate sales. In fact, some studies report that this figure is as high as 70%, but I doubt that the actual number is that high. Even so, it can amount to hundreds or even thousands of dollars each month.
How do they do it? In most cases, affiliate thieves view the source code of your webpage and find the URL with your affiliate links. Then, they copy that information and create a new URL by replacing your affiliate ID with their own affiliate ID. They paste that new URL into their web browser and purchase the product that you promoted using their own affiliate ID. This takes the commission out of your pocket and puts it in theirs.
When this happens, all of your hard work and effort has been done in vain. The time you spent on researching the best product, finding the best price, and developing the perfect landing page was wasted. Your commission was stolen by a lazy, dishonest thief. And in most cases, you weren’t even aware that it happened.
If you are serious about succeeding in the affiliate marketing arena, you must protect your profits. So, what is the answer? The solution to this growing problem lies in cloaking your affiliate links. Cloaking involves a method of disguising, or hiding your affiliate link from those would be thieves. Although the technique may sound complicated, it is really quite easy.
Although there is some great software you can buy to cloak your affiliate links, there are many free alternatives that do the same thing. Do a search for ‘cloak your links’ and you will find several pages of cloaking options.
So if you are using affiliate sales as part of your business plan, use this very simple technique and watch your sales increase.
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
Affiliate Links and How To Cloak Them
Affiliate sales amount to billions of dollars each year. Most successful online use affiliate sales for at least a portion of their business. To direct buyers to your affiliate products, it is necessary to include a link to the product that you are promoting. These are called affiliate links. Each link includes the name of the product you are recommending as well as you own personal ID for that program.
Affiliate links are a necessary component in the Internet marketing business. But we sometimes find that unscrupulous people steal them. There are shady people out there who will look at your affiliate link and consummate the sale after replacing your affiliate ID with their own. It is a fact of doing business on the Internet. For that reason, if you want to make serious money in that arena, you should always cloak your affiliate links.
In addition to lost sales, there is another reason to cloak your affiliate links; they look unprofessional and announce that fact that it is an affiliate product. And unfortunately, there are those out there who will not knowingly buy affiliate sponsored products. For those reasons, it is best to cloak your affiliate links.
There a number of techniques that you can use to do this. Following are four tactics that you can use to cloak your links:
1. Use free link cloaking sites. These sites will allow you to enter a URL and they will convert it into a cloaked link. Tinyurl is probably the most well known of these sites but there are many others that do the same thing. You can find these sites by doing a search for ‘free affiliate cloaking.’
2. You can also use software, both free and paid, that will cloak your links. You can find hundreds of software programs by searching for ‘affiliate cloaking software.’
3. An option that most super affiliates use is the purchase of a domain name for one specific affiliate product. Using this tactic, they either develop a specialized landing page or use either domain forwarding or re-directs to link to the affiliate products.
4. As an alternative to purchasing your own domain, you can use a page within your existing site and re-direct traffic from that page. If you are uncertain how to use re-directs, you can see many examples by doing a search for ‘link redirects.’
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