How To Increase Your Affiliate Profits

If you don’t cloak your affiliate links, you are probably losing a considerable amount of money every month. Statistical records indicate that the theft of affiliate sales accounts for over a quarter of total affiliate revenues. I find that figure incredible. I never realized that there were so many dishonest thieves lurking around. Oh well, it is what it is.

So how do they do it? Well it’s actually pretty simple, they’re thieves, not brain surgeons. They access the source code of your webpage to get the address of your affiliate link. Then they copy that information and create a new URL by replacing your affiliate ID with their own.

Then they visit this new URL and buy the product using their own affiliate ID. As a result, you’ve done all the hard work of finding the product, doing the research, and perhaps developing a pre-sale page and these dishonest thieves reap all the benefits.

And the problem is; if you don’t research your site statistics everyday, you may not even know that these thieves are eating up your hard earned money! So the next big question is, what can you do about it? There are two possible solutions; you can cloak your affiliate links or use software to hide them. The software solution is more foolproof, but a good cloaking strategy will thwart all but the most determined thieves.

So, if you are not doing it on a consistent basis, research your site statistics and determine the extent of your affiliate thefts. If the number is small (or non-existent), cloaking may work fine for you. On the other hand, if thieves are consistently stealing your affiliate links, you may need a software solution. There is plenty of software available online and some of it is quite reasonably priced.

So, to survive in the affiliate business and make money, do what you can to put these thieves out of business.

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