Protect Affiliate Commissions With Easy Link Cloaking

Many affiliate marketers know that it is too easy for others to change their ClickBank links. It's as easy as replacing the original affiliate's ClickBank nickname with your own.

And this is a serious difficulty in the ClickBank affiliate marketing model.

But fortunately there is a simple solution which you can use to protect your affiliate commissions.

But first, a short aside:

I've seen some marketers use a free redirection service like TinyURL.com or Shurl.org and a handful of others, but to my way of thinking they all look tacky. In the marketing context, that is. Other uses may be fine, but not when you're promoting a product or a service and then you send a prospect to a link like that.

I wonder if anybody has done testing to see what damage that does to their conversion rates. Actually I cant imagine any serious marketer even wanting to try that.

EASY PROTECTION FOR YOUR AFFILIATE LINK:

While nothing is perfect, the following system is good. And in fact, ClickBank themselves recommend it, although not all affiliates have noticed this, I am sure.

ClickBank recommends that affiliates use a particular format.

If the code does not display well here, you can see it at http://eprofitnews.org/link-cloaking.html

STEP 1. Open a new blank text file.

I use Notepad because it adds none of the extra characters that Microsoft Word, for example, adds. Those extra characters mess things up in HTML. Notepad is available free at notepad.org but you can use any plain text editor you like. I also use Notepad++ for its expanded functionality. It's also free and you can get it from notepad-plus.sourceforge.net.

STEP 2. Paste the above ClickBank HTML code into your text file, replace PUBLISHER with the vendor's ClickBank nickname and replace ITEM with your ClickBank nickname.

Then save the file as keyword.html

Any keyword will do. Okay, any word will do. But since you're an affiliate marketer let's choose something relevant here... a keyword or the product name, maybe.

STEP 3. Upload keyword.html to your server. And test it by visiting yourdomain.com/keyword.html and you should be immediately redirected to the affiliate program you are promoting. Click on the Buy link and your affiliate nickname should be displayed at the bottom of the following page.

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