Affiliate Marketing Tips - How To Stop Commission Theft Posted By : Simon Akers
If you are promoting Click Bank products you may not be aware that customers can purchase products using their own username and effectively steal commissions from you that should have been yours. Fortunately there is a solution to this problem which you can implement immediately.
You may or may not have heard of cloaking which is used to conceal affiliate links in order to protect commissions from being stolen. It works by using a full
window frame page that prevents the address bar from showing the original affiliate link in the browser.
As the link is hosted on your website, more people will click on it and your response rates will significantly increase. Another benefit is that if visitors bookmark the page they will come back to the frame page which contains your affiliate link. Anyone who chooses to view the source code of the page will not see your affiliate link as its completely hidden.
To make sure that you are credited for each sale that you generate its essential to cloak your affiliate links. A major problem with Click Bank is commission theft, when a member enters their own username into the affiliate link (before they order the product) to steal the commissions that should have gone to the person who is promoting the website.
You can significantly reduce commission theft by cloaking all of your affiliate links using a software program such as Affiliate Cloner which creates a special page that you host on your website to prevent your affiliate link from showing in the browser (your own website link will show instead).
All you need to do is create a simple cloak and then use the file in a new folder on your website so your affiliate link would be something like www.example.com/name/ which you would use for promoting the product. Its a good idea to name the folder you have created for your cloaked affiliate link something related to the product.
If you are an affiliate marketer and you want to stop commission theft and significantly increase your income you should seriously consider cloaking all of your affiliate links: www.marketingoasis.com/direct/affiliatecloner/
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