Are your affiliate links
theft-proof?
Protect your affiliate income
by protecting your links!
Protecting your affiliate links is not difficult.
Just copy this HTML, make a few easy changes
and upload it to your server. Then relax...
because your links and your affiliate commissions
are now protected.
If you leave your affiliate ID exposed at
the end of your affiliate link, you're at
risk. People can easily chop off your ID...
and you lose your commission (or the downline
that you're seeking to build). And reportedly
it happens very often.
Here are 2 typical
affiliate links...
- http://affiliate-program.com/your-ID
- http://garyharvey.cloaker.hop.clickbank.net
Question: How EASY is it to remove your-ID
or garyharvey
from this link?
Answer: Very easy. Too easy.
But it's also EASY
to protect yourself. Either use a
simple redirection or you can easily cloak
your links.
Basic redirection
is simple
Step 1. Create a new
webpage with the following code in it. Exactly
this code... except that you must remove all
the asterisks (*). I've added the asterisks
so that the code gets displayed here. Without
the asterisks, the code will work... which
is exactly what you want!
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd
html 4.01 Transitional//En">
<*HTML>
<*HEAD>
<*meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
url=http://affiliate-program.com/your-ID">
<*/HEAD>
<*BODY>
<*/BODY>
<*/HTML>
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Step 2. Save this code as a webpage
with any name you like. Example: "affiliate.html"
or "whatever.html". Then upload
the page to your server, and that's it.
This page (http://www.yourdomain.com/affiliate.html)
is the one you advertise. When people click
on the link, they're automatically redirected
to the destination website (http://affiliate-program.com/your-ID).
And you get the credit if they buy.
HOW IT DISPLAYS:
If you save this code
as "http://yourdomain.com/whatever.html"
and then display it, your browser will tell
you that the page you're displaying is http://affiliate-program.com/your-ID.
It will display exactly the same as if you
entered http://affiliate-program.com/your-ID
directly into your browser address panel.
By way of explanation...
The code in step 1 instructs the browser
to refresh itself after zero seconds and
to redirect the incoming request to the
URL that is named next. So in zero seconds,
your visitor's browser is being prepared
to show your *real* affiliate link. Neat,
eh?
Use this code to
cloak any of your links
Step 1 and 2 instructions are the same as
above. Remember to remove the asterisks (*).
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<*HTML>
<*HEAD>
<script>window.status = '';</script>
<title>Here's what people read
at the top of their browser </title>
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword,keyword2,keyword3,keyword4">
<meta name="description"
content="A sentence or 2 for people
to read in the search engine results.
It's good to use your most important
keywords here.">
<*/HEAD>
<*FRAMESET border=0 rows="100%,*"
frameborder="no" marginleft=0
margintop=0 marginright=0 marginbottom=0>
<*frame src="http://www.stormpay.com/?34611"
scrolling=auto frameborder="no"
border=0 noresize>
<*frame topmargin="0" marginwidth=0
scrolling=no marginheight=0 frameborder="no"
border=0 noresize> <body></body>
<*/FRAMESET>
<*/HTML>
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HOW IT DISPLAYS:
If you save this code
as "http://yourdomain.com/cloakedpage.html"
and then display it, your browser will be
displaying my StormPay affiliate page (with
my ID 34611 invisibly embedded in it). However
your browser will tell you that the page you're
displaying is http://yourdomain.com/cloakedpage.html.
The title displaying at the top of your screen
reads "Here's what people read at the
top of their browser".
Here's how to create a mouseOver
effect
...so you control the
way the link appears in the status bar at
the bottom of your screen. See what I've done
in the status bar below. If the status bar
is not visible, go to the View dropdown menu
at the top of your screen and tick Status
Bar.
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