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| How to Booost Your Affiliate Commissions by almost 30%
Affiliate marketing is one tough business. Everyone online today
is looking to make or save money in any way they can.
In the good old days when internet marketing was in its infancy,
most of the people who clicked on your affiliate links used to
purchase without a second thought... but, now as times are
getting tougher, and visitors getting more cynical, you'll be
amazed at the number who won't!
Just one flaw in a system and you will find dozens of
unscrupulous people waiting to exploit it. Same goes for
affiliate commission tracker systems. People who know how to
manipulate the system will replace your affiliate ID with theirs
and "hijack" your commissions.
Most affiliate links are some form or the other of
http://www.thesite.com/?YOURID
Where your affiliate id is passed as a parameter. A thief has to
simply change the "YOURID" part to "HISID" to put your money in
his pocket.
In other cases, there are visitors to your site who simply can't
stand the thought of you "making money off them" so they bypass
you by simply chopping off the end of your affiliate link that
contains your ID.
Instead of buying from http://www.thesite.com/?YOURID , the
bypasser will simply "chop off" the affiliate ID at the end and
simply buy from the plain URL http://www.thesite.com/ --without
your affiliate ID attached!
Bam! you just got cheated out of your rightful commission.
Studies have shown that this phenomenon causes about 30% lost
sales.
By following some of these simple tips you will be able to, if
not all, at least confuse most hijackers and, in many cases,
often disarm them completely.
You might notice i said most and not all. This is because if the
hijacker is well versed at html and javascipt he will be able to
eventually get to your affiliate link. However, most hijackers
are just opportunists who will only act if they see an easy buck
and its this segment that we can beat
The simplest way to hide your affiliate links is using a
javascript redirect page.
This is where you hide your affiliate link in a page on your
site using a simple javascript that redirects people to your
affiliate link.
This way your "naked" affiliate link is not exposed in your
actual email messages and ezine ads, but, once people get
redirected to the true affiliate link.
One possible drawback of this method is that some affiliate
programs, like clickbank for example, expose the affiliate link
along with your ID in the browser address bar.
So if the viewer is eagle-eyed he will notice that hes been
redirected through and affiliate link.
A safer method to hide your affiliate links is using a
zero-frame or "invisible" frame that masks the affiliate link by
making it appear you are sending people to a page on your
website. In reality, you are actually sending them to your
affiliate link.
This technique is also used by many domain redirection service
sites.
Unfortunately is the user views the source of the page. He know
whats that youve loaded an affiliate link.
The solution is to use javascript encryption to scramble up the
page code.
Even though there isn't a 100% perfect solution to this problem,
if you want to get paid more often through your affiliate links,
make sure it's not obvious you're referring people to an
affiliate link.
If they can't see that its a affiliate link, lower the
possibility of you getting stiffed of your commission.
About the author:
About The Author Satyajeet Hattangadi is the Owner of Novasoft
Inc ( http://www.novasoft-inc.com/hop.asp?pid=4), makers of
Covert Affiliate, a tool that gets you affiliate commissions
from even those folk who dont click your affiliate link.
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