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There are terrible rumors flooding the Internet about affiliates being robbed of hard-earned commissions. While I believe this may occur on some minor frequency, our testing and experience has identified that it just isn’t as bad as many would have you believe.
Truth is, the bearer of the “gloom & doom” of affiliate link theft can usually be found to be thoughtfully including a link to a product that they claim will eliminate the theft problem completely.
Let me explain why by using a situation and challenge that I used at a recent affiliate marketing conference I attended.
While speaking with a small group of fellow marketers on the perceived threat of ClickBank affiliate link theft, I put the challenge to each and every one of them.
I challenged them to walk out the door of the hotel and find any one on the street that wasn’t attending the conference that knew of ClickBank. I told them if they could find anyone that knew what ClickBank was, I would pay them $100.00
By the end of the weekend following countless interrogations of restaurant staff and passers-by, my $100.00 was still safely tucked away in my wallet.
You see, the web has billions of potential customers. These are the potential buyers from your website. ClickBank has only about 140,000 affiliates. Pretty safe bet that most people out there don’t know what an affiliate url is, let alone how, or even why to cheat it.
Even with the absolute BEST anti-affiliate link theft software out there, there is no way to completely eliminate ClickBank link theft.
Why? Because as soon as you transfer the customer from your site to ClickBank’s, the affiliate has no control over what is displayed or revealed in the web address or the pages to follow.
Most ClickBank affiliates know how to cheat a ClickBank affiliate url, but don’t do it anyway. But there are the unscrupulous few out there that will, but they are the exception and little can be done to deter them.
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Until next time!
To Your Health, Happiness & Prosperity,
Rick & Ron Davies
1499988 ONT Ltd
P.O. Box 46 Wooler
ON Canada K0K 3M0
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Aug 6, 2008 at 19:01:16
Hi Rick,
I’m really interested in the Profit Mall. I left you an e-mail at your sales site last night, but as busy as you are I thought a comment might be better. I’m one of the network WHBers!
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Aug 7, 2008 at 08:10:01
Good things to know.
Thanks Rick!
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Aug 9, 2008 at 15:07:48
This has been going on for a long time. There isn’t a real way to stop it. It is just one of the negatives in affiliates.
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Aug 12, 2008 at 13:46:09
It’s just what you have to deal with. Putting too much into it will prevent you from getting your affiliate business off the ground. “Damn affiliate theft robbed me of money again”. It’s only a small percentage.
Sep 3, 2008 at 12:54:47
I would agree that the incidence of link hijacking is not nearly as predominant as some people would have you believe - it is more likely to occur to those promoting internet marketing type products through Clickbank as the audience is probably more Clickbank savvy.
Even if you use a good link cloaker the customer will still eventually end up on Clickbank’s secure order page so if they have a mind to buy through their own link they probably still will. It still doesn’t hurt to cloak links though - I use Cloaker Buzz myself as it is free and effective.