If you are not using affiliate cloaking, then you are most likely throwing away hundred's to thousand's of dollars a month. It has been shown that 20% - 70% of all affiliate commissions are stolen. This is a frightening statistic, and should shock you into action. If you are like me and potentially losing 1 or 2 sales a day, then this can be make or break. If you are serious about succeeding in affiliate marketing you must protect your profits with affiliate cloaking.
I will state it again for effect for those that are not paying attention; between 20% - 70% of all affiliate commissions are stolen. Commission thieves' or link bypasser's/ link hijacker's are rife in affiliate marketing networks. There is a lot of money changing hands, and they have worked out devious tactics to over-write unprotected affiliate links at the point of purchase. What does this mean for you? If you are not using some form of affiliate cloaking you are kissing goodbye your hard earned profits day in, and day out.
The Solution
There are various forms of affiliate cloaking software available. There are free methods which work OK. These essentially function by creating an external file which has your affiliate link embedded and redirecting to hide your affiliate URL.
More effective are dedicated affiliate cloaking software and affiliate cloaking script's, which work to protect your affiliate links on various levels. Personally I recommend using a dynamic php affiliate cloaking script to protect your links. This is a more portable and efficient method of affiliate cloaking.
I will state it again for effect for those that are not paying attention; between 20% - 70% of all affiliate commissions are stolen. Commission thieves' or link bypasser's/ link hijacker's are rife in affiliate marketing networks. There is a lot of money changing hands, and they have worked out devious tactics to over-write unprotected affiliate links at the point of purchase. What does this mean for you? If you are not using some form of affiliate cloaking you are kissing goodbye your hard earned profits day in, and day out.
The Solution
There are various forms of affiliate cloaking software available. There are free methods which work OK. These essentially function by creating an external file which has your affiliate link embedded and redirecting to hide your affiliate URL.
More effective are dedicated affiliate cloaking software and affiliate cloaking script's, which work to protect your affiliate links on various levels. Personally I recommend using a dynamic php affiliate cloaking script to protect your links. This is a more portable and efficient method of affiliate cloaking.
