How To Avoid Losing Thousands in StolenAffiliate Commissions in Less Than 5 MinutesI'm appalled. There, I said it. I'm upset about a new trend of affiliate theft that is growing by the minute online. And, if you'll indulge me just five minutes of your time, I'm going to explain how YOU can avoid being ripped off by affiliate theft artists. All you need is your own website, an affiliate link, and this ebook. That's right "ebook". No scripts to install, no php/mysql, no cgi, no fuss, no muss, and most importantly no more lost affiliate sales! Trust me this is happening more often than you know and with almost all of your affiliate links. Savvy marketers will even go sign up to an affiliate program they have never heard of to accomplish this. If the product is hot...YOU WILL LOSE SALES THIS WAY. We
use Clickbank as our example but I use this for ALL of my affiliate
links!
Play a little game with me. Let's suppose you are promoting the Free Advertising System through your assigned Clickbank "hop" link below...
http://hop.clickbank.net/?yournickname/nocost
You spend $125.00 for a solo mailing to a large web marketing list and you wait for the orders to start pouring in. And they do. Because the Free Advertising System is a hot-seller. And you make a profit. But, what if you could see behind-the-scenes? What would you see? What you'd see are other sales coming in for the Free Advertising System from members of that same list... ...but with THEIR affiliate name inserted, and THEM earning the commission! Anyone who knows how the Clickbank affiliate tracking system works, can easily hijack your commissions by inserting their link into the one you placed in the ad. Watch closely... Let's assume your nickname is "topaffiliate". You publish this ad... Discover how to advertise any product or service on a ZERO-dollar budget. The Free Advertising System shows you how to get thousands of other folks promoting your product or service for you...and never spend another penny on advertising again. Visit http://hop.clickbank.net/?topaffiliate/nocost for all the details. Now, there will be many interested folks who'll simply click on the link and visit the site and place their order. But, there will also be folks who see that Clickbank link and will simply insert their link into its place... http://hop.clickbank.net/?jimmybrown/nocost http://hop.clickbank.net/?thevault/nocost http://hop.clickbank.net/?tactics/nocost http://hop.clickbank.net/?generators/nocost http://hop.clickbank.net/?licenses/nocost See how easy it is to "steal" from YOU. Anyone who knows the system can easily insert THEIR link in place of yours and swipe your commission. But, that's not all...Even If You Are Using A Redirect, You Can Easily Be Ripped Off Like This...For quite a while now, folks have been using "redirect" links to avoid posting the obvious Clickbank "hop" link in any kind of advertising... http://www.profitsvault.com/netbreakthroughs.html will automatically redirect anyone clicking onto it over to Terry Dean's Netbreakthroughs site through my affiliate link. http://www.profitsvault.com/7dayebook.html will automatically redirect visitors to Jim Edwards 7 Day eBook site through my affiliate link. These redirect links are easy to setup, and are especially good for advertising purposes. But, they don't solve the problem.Let's use the 7 Day eBook example above. When you click on the redirect link that I mentioned, guess what happens. You arrive at Jim Edwards site and the browser link looks like this... http://www.7dayebook.com/?hop=thevault.7dayebook Even
though it's not my affiliate link itself, the main ingredients for
the link are right there in plain view. Again, anyone knowing the
system realizes that "thevault" is the referring affiliate and
"7dayebook" is the account name for the product vendor.
So, they get their template out and plug things in... http://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate/vendor becomes... http://hop.clickbank.net/?theirnickname/7dayeBook They simply insert this link into their browser and arrive back at the same site... ...this time through THEIR referral and not mine! Anyone who knows the system can easily make the switch. But, not anymore...
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