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Piracy is not theft? Until it is your comisisons that gets stolen…

A While back a colleague and I was looking through the comisison statisticss from one of our affiliate marketing campaigns and noticed that we were suddenly converting much lower than usual at under 5%. Considering that was using a well designed sales funnel which we had tested again and again to convert at over 40% – I was extremely confused. I decided to double checked the statistics and assumed that the sales and conversions would pick up in a day or two.

Well a week passed… and It STAYED the same at under 5% conversion ???.

We simply couldn’t figure out why our affiliate offer was converting so low although we had enough ciicktroughs to the sales page. I decided to ask for some help from one of my online friends who is an established internet marketer and he just laughed at me and said, ‘you guys aren’t using cloaking on your affiliate links, are you?’

Unfortunately we weren’t,  and at the time I actually had no idea howI could cloak my links or even why I should. After finding out a little more about it, I figured out why one needs to always cloak your affiliate links:

some people and software programs will actually change your affiliate link to their own! (so doing effectively steal your referal commissions!) There is  also types of spyware that can do just that, so whenever a website visitor clicks to a ClickBank product (or any other affiliate product) you are promotin, it will replaces the referrer ID with that of the spyware creator.

What it means  is that I was efectively giving over most of my commission to these thieves and the worst part is that I lost a few days of sells already.

I really wish I had known about links cloaking before that point.

I also found out that there are a many ways to cloak your links, but some techniques are complicated, others will break the browser cookies, and some can screw up the redirect.

Additionally, If you’re not positive about your sales statistics being genuine and correct, it may be that one of these fraudsters are stealing your commissions. It is especially true if you have noticed a recent drop in affiliate sales, or if your advertising campaigns are performing below your expectations. It isn’t very difficult to find a TECHNICAL information about link cloaking, but most don’t take affiliate marketing into account and might screw up the cookies which means you STILL don’t get commissions.

Apart from cloaking your links there isn’t a definitive way to prevent others from hijacking your affiliate links. Luckily it is possible for you to implement cloaks on your links within minutes, all you need to find is a good cloak. The problem isn’t a lack of available programs – it’s a lack of GOOD Quality programs that actually work 100% of the time and get you the sale.

It doens’t matter if you split test your marketing campaign a thousand times and set up brilliant sales funnels,  it won’t make a difference if you’re no’t using a really good link cloaking service or program.

You can discover more about cloaking your links in this free report with a tongue in cheek name of Cloak and Dagger Affiliate Secrets .

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