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Everyone knows that when you sign up to an affiliate program you get an affiliate ID which looks something like this
http://affiliatedomain.net/default.aspx?userid=1975569
By keeping it like this people will know it's an affiliate link and probably think twice about clicking on it or dodge clicking through your link altogether by simply pasting the shortcut into the address bar and removing some of the address so it looks like this.
http://affiliatedomain.net/
What the user has effectivly done is stop you earning any credit for the referral and hackers have been known to hack into sites and change the userid so it shows their ID rather than yours so they would earn the credit and not you.
How do i stop this???
What you can do is simply create an html file which holds your affiliate link and then put a link on your web page to this thus cloaking your link.
To do this simply open up notepad (Usually installed as standard on most windows platforms) and then copy and paste the following code into it.
<HTML>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://affiliatedomain.net/default.aspx?userid=1975569"></HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Replace the red bits with your information and then save the file as an html file. so click save as then save as something like affiliate.html. The .html extention makes the file turn into a web page.
Now upload the file to your domain and place a link to this file on your webpage. when people now click on the link on your page they will be directed to the file we've just made and then instantly redirected to the affilaite site through your link.
Now that your affiliate link is safe you should hopefully see an increase in clicks as customers will see the link as more legitimate.
Hope this helps some of you out.
Everyone knows that when you sign up to an affiliate program you get an affiliate ID which looks something like this
http://affiliatedomain.net/default.aspx?userid=1975569
By keeping it like this people will know it's an affiliate link and probably think twice about clicking on it or dodge clicking through your link altogether by simply pasting the shortcut into the address bar and removing some of the address so it looks like this.
http://affiliatedomain.net/
What the user has effectivly done is stop you earning any credit for the referral and hackers have been known to hack into sites and change the userid so it shows their ID rather than yours so they would earn the credit and not you.
How do i stop this???
What you can do is simply create an html file which holds your affiliate link and then put a link on your web page to this thus cloaking your link.
To do this simply open up notepad (Usually installed as standard on most windows platforms) and then copy and paste the following code into it.
<HTML>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://affiliatedomain.net/default.aspx?userid=1975569"></HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Replace the red bits with your information and then save the file as an html file. so click save as then save as something like affiliate.html. The .html extention makes the file turn into a web page.
Now upload the file to your domain and place a link to this file on your webpage. when people now click on the link on your page they will be directed to the file we've just made and then instantly redirected to the affilaite site through your link.
Now that your affiliate link is safe you should hopefully see an increase in clicks as customers will see the link as more legitimate.
Hope this helps some of you out.
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