How To Easily Increase Your Affiliate Profits By 30%
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Selling affiliate products is a great way to start a new online business. It’s free to get started and you can begin making money right away! But there are some pitfalls along the way. One of the biggest problems in the affiliate marketing area is theft. It is estimated that the average marketer experiences a 30 percent loss of affiliate revenue due to theft!
A good question that puzzles many new website owners suffering this fate is, “how does it happen”? The answer is straight forward; thieves view the source code of your web page and easily obtain the URL of the affiliate links along with relevant details.
They replace Your affiliate ID with their own ID and create a new affiliate link. Then they use this new link to purchase the product. The result is, you lose a commission and the thief gets a discount. Most affiliate marketers are not even aware that they were robbed.
So how do you protect yourself against these thieves? The best way to protect your affiliate profits is to cloak your links. A good cloaking system hides your affiliate ID from these dishonest individuals. There are several cloaking techniques that you can use to protect your profits.
The first and easiest is to use is Tinyurl. This web service is free and is very easy to use. You simply go to the website and enter your affiliate URL into the text box. They’ll provide you with an alternate URL for that link. The new link that they provide effectively hides your affiliate ID. There are many other companies that provide the same type service but this is among the most well known.
There is also software available that will cloak your links. Some of the software is quite expensive but inexpensive options also exist. So, stop those affiliate thieves in their tracks. Take back the 30 percent that they’ve been stealing and protect your profits with affiliate links.
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Although I wish I could blame my sites lack of affiliate sales on thieves this article was quite helpful and I will definitely start using the tinyurl going forward. Thanks for the tip
Hi!
Thanks for the article. I have actually heard higher stats of loss of sales considering if you don’t cloak your links, people will often not click on them at all knowing they’re affiliate programs.
I recently created a software solution for cloaking your links plus building your opt-in list. You can see it at http://www.affiliatelinkmagic.com
If you’d like to try it for free and give me your feedback, I’d be happy to send you the link. =]
Take care.
-Mike.