Comments on: Protecting Your Hoplinks

By: Steve1776

Steve1776 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:04:07 +0000

I use domain name forwarding with the domains I have registered at 1and1.com.
I use “frame redirect” which will not show you hoplink. Since domain names are cheap and if you buy them from 1and1 they will forward them for free I have some I’m not using yet.

By: Hopeful

Hopeful — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:26:11 +0000

I was promoting my affiliate links on traffic exchanges (which I have yet to make money) and after a while, my link would have someone else’s name on it.

I personally use http://www.hotshorturl.com

Take Care!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:40:42 +0000

I once tried using a program called affiliate cloner. I set up my links and after a few weeks I followed one of the the links and scrolled down to the bottom of the Clickbank order page. To my surprise the referring affiliate nick name was changed to “JAVA9″ So I closed the page and followed the link again, this time it showed my affiliate ID at the bottom of the CB order page. I did this over the next few days and found that it was alternating between my CD ID and one called “JAVA9″. I said to myself “that’s funny” since the affiliate cloner works by generating a javascript code from your affiliate hop link for you to save and an html file on your domain and then use IT as your referral link to customers. Then for customer to get to the publisher site they must have javascript enables browser (about 96% of browsers are javascript enabled) When my cloned link is followed it this manner there is a split second where i could actually see the script run. I wasn’t sure what is going on so i stopped using the script.

Clickbank does a fantastic job; I predict that they will be doing more to prevent commission theft.

Richard

By: Raylene

Raylene — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:13:47 +0000

I was given a website which promotes 3 products separately. I checked out the first product as far as the purchase and the affiliate had my name. But I noticed after much traffic with Yahoo that the other 2 products did not have my affiliate name. Therefore I do not know if I had sales or not and if I did have sales they didn’t come to my affiliate. Be careful, you do not get told.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:27:32 +0000

Caleb,

Just keep checking your links after a couple hundred hits mate cause i have had the same problem,some will stay there for a couple hundred hits and some will stay there for a thousand hits then when i go back to the purchase page the Affiliate= None.

I am waiting on a further response to an email i have sent.
It in my case is not getting stolen but rather like you said “just” dropping off.(keep that in mind to Jack.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:13:18 +0000

Shall I use Tinyurl.com to cloak my hop link?

By: Caleb

Caleb — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:26:58 +0000

I figured out to check the bottom of the actual sales page to see if my id is present for every product I promote after noticing some affiluiate programs I joined would “drop” my link throughout their ordering process. I believe this is one of the main reasons why many affiliates are gettint their commissions stolen and don’t realize it.