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The_Silent_Internet_Crime
| The Silent Internet Crime
Stealing affiliate sales has become the "silent" Internet crime,
stealing sales and products from the honest guy (or gal) who is
trying to grow an Internet business.
I did not think that this crime would affect me, until I noticed
that there were 3 times as many downloads of my ebook than there
were actual sales. That was a wakeup call that I needed to
correct the problem or risk losing hundreds of dollars.
The problem was that within my purchase page HTML, the download
page URL that the purchaser would be directed to was posted in
the HTML script like a sitting duck, saying "Why pay when you
can download for free". From the HTML text anyone could copy the
download page URL into their browser and download my product
without making a purchase.
Well, this was not good news.
So, I quickly located a program that would mask my download page
URL. There are a number of these programs available online,
simply go to a search engine and type in "link cloaker" or
"affiliate link cloaker". The programs are really very similar.
You type in the URL that you want to mask.
example:
http//www.myaffiliate.com?ID2345
and the program generates a cryptic single line of numbers and
letters, which you put into the HTML script to replace the easy
to read URL
example:
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