Disguising affiliate links
It is vital to use a technique in disguising your affiliate links. And if you’re one of those who do not have any affiliate link then you are definitely making a big mistake. Research shows that affiliate commission amounts to $20 of every affiliate sales, so that means you are also losing a lot of money every month. There are hundreds of reasons why you need to safeguard your affiliate link but let me cut it down to the three most common reasons, and those are affiliate bypassing, hijacking and condensing your affiliate link. So how does it really work? And I bet most of you have the same questions too.
An affiliate thief has the capacity to get the source code of your site or webpage. By viewing it allows them to locate the URL’s of your affiliate links, they copy the information and creates a new URL by altering your affiliate ID with their own ID. They’d use the new URL and buy the product that you are promoting with their own affiliate ID, taking all of your commissions from you and making it their own.
Link hijacking is the act of stealing the sales commission that you are earning by someone who visits your website; if they get the idea of purchasing your product they’d replace their own affiliate link with yours. And once that happens they’d earn the sales commission not you.
Bypassing is just basically removing your link but neither of you gets the sales. It’s a no win situation for you or the person who bypasses your link.
Condensing on the other hand is the most practiced. This method requires time to make it work properly, by carefully cutting and pasting the link to make it longer. Discouraging other people from taking interest in to your site. And if you’d come to think of it most internet users wants a user-friendly site. And the most used method in cloaking or protecting your affiliate link is by using URL masking. Just get your own domain and forward it to the affiliate link by using URL redirection and masking. Assuring that your affiliate link will not be visible to anyone and lessens the chances of anyone altering or changing it.
