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. The code does not display well here, but
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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