Online affiliate programs are an important and integral part of ebusiness – online marketing, if you prefer.
There are online affiliate programs of every kind, size, budget and description. And more than likely, you too will join an affiliate marketing network or at the very least join an affiliate program or two.
You have to figure there is a marketing affiliate program with a high commission that will be of interest to you. Only, just watch out for the internet sharks! When it comes to Affiliate Programs, You are swiming, as it were, in shark-infested waters!
But first, a question – two actually -
When you fill your gas tank do you leave the tank lid open and then put your gas cap in the glove compartment?
Hopefully not.
Second, do you work for free?
Again, hopefully not.
Well, the fact of the matter is that if you plan to join an affiliate program, or any program with the intention of making money on the internet, your first step Must Be to set up an affiliate
link cloaker to help you protect your commissions. Otherwise you will, in effect, be leaving off your gas cap and you will wind up working for nothing or at the very least, far less than you are entitled.
And keep in mind, there are some Very High Commission affiliate programs out there! If you are interested in the info email me.
Bottom line, commissions to which you are entitled will either be subverted (ie. a buyer of the product will see your affiliate link ID and wipe it out) or (make that and/or) a full time thief
will hijack your earned commissions and make them his or her own.
But never once do they remember it is you who paid for that PPC (Pay per click advertising) that led them thru you to the product!
Trust me on this: it happened to me; it can (and if you leave bare affiliate links) so quite likely will happen to you.
In my case it was strictly by co-incidence that I was in touch with others in the same program and we began to compare notes and facts, and realized we were systematically being robbed of our commissions.
And Here Is The Lesson For You:
I contacted the FBI Internet Fraud Division, the FTC, the processor of the commissions and the webmaster.
The FBI said gee, thanks for the info, we will add it to our growing database …
The FTC said gee, thanks for the info, we will add it to our growing database, and here is some info on internet theft, and if we get enough complaints about this particular thief, some day we may actually go after him! Thanks again.
The processor said Gee, thanks for the info, but what do you want us to do about it.?
And the webmaster said … nothing. I never heard back!
THE ULTIMATE LESSON: YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.
Like the referee says to the boxers before Round 1: …Protect Yourself At All Times!
The good news is, now you are informed and to be forwarned is to be forearmed.
The bad news is that when it comes to affiliate link cloakers, you had better know ahead of time what you are getting into, and how to use the tools needed to get the cloaker going.
You need to know about FTP, PHP, creating a webpage from scratch, Domains, URL’s, uploading, hosting services, and webpages … oh yes, WARNING/NOTICE: If you use GoDaddy for your domain you CAN NOT use the Website Tonight feature for creating a cloaking domain.
Took me two days to find this out. I kept trying to upload an FTP program and it never would. I only got Error Messages. Finally, I called directly to the GoDaddy phone customer service
and was informed that I needed to create a new domain and use their hosting service method because the ‘Website Tonight’ feature does not upload. This applies to any service – you need full hosting service.
So I bought another domain, used the full hosting service instead of the Website Tonight service, and I was totally inept at creating an uploading website for my cloaker.
I kept writing the seller – I could see their PHP file, but I could not get that file to open. They kept sending me emails, etc. offering suggestions, but I never could get it to work.
I got my money back and suggested they modernize their program to provide more than just a ZIP file.
Could they not also provide an extractor and a program installer?? Hey, when was the last time you bought a program from any internet marketing company that did not Unzip and Install the program???
OK, I went to another cloaking program selling affiliate software. Same deal. They say it is so simple … just do this. Then do that. Then simply add this … Right. A week later, another wasted week and another request for a refund because I could not get their link cloaker, URL cloaker if you perfer, to work for me. Maybe YOU can get it to install and work poroperly but I could not. I had another program cloaker come with SIX pages (in small type) of
instructions! Heaven help me.
FINALLY, I got lucky. A webmaster that appreciates the problem of a non-guru who just wants to get those links protected without having to be a master programmer! If you want them to, they will have a programmer set the cloaker up for you and provide you with a website
hosting service that has the needed protocols, etc. Would I like them to set the whole thing up for me? WOULD I!
Thank goodness I found you! Heck yes.
So for a mere $30 extra I had the cloaking program set up professionally, PLUS I got three months of hosting free. No more frustrating hours and days messing with this stuff’.
Thirty bucks … its a bargain! Not to mention three free month’s of hosting service. Heck of a deal. And there is a video to introduce you to using the cloaking setup. Now, Finally, it really is easy. Literally 45 seconds to one minute! it was easy! Just type in two lines: The affiliate link and the ‘name’ identifier of the product such as ‘Dogfood’ or ‘Candlemaking’ etc.
I love it, they did the grunt work, it takes me a minute or less to do the set up!
OK, you read thru a lot to get to the program, but you need to be aware of the pitfalls and dangers of not cloaking and going over your head so to speak, unless you are a master at this stuff.
In either case, take it from me, unless you really know what you are doing, ask the professional to set everything up and do it without the frustration and aggravation of going it alone. By the way the set-up option is available after you sign up for the program. For more information feel free to visit: http://www.DontStealFromMe.info
P.S. As a thank you for visiting the review and staying with it (and to see the link protection in action) visit http://CoolInternetProducts.com/presents/EbooksPlus and keep your eye on the website URL and how it stays at this designation. Feel free to take advantage of the Ten Free Ebooks available for your visit. Finally, notice the identifing word ‘EbookPlus’ in the website address; that’s all I had to type on one of the two lines to create my protected affiliate link. Easy!
By: Mike Farber
About the Author:
There are online affiliate programs of every kind, size, budget and description. And more than likely, you too will join an affiliate marketing network or at the very least join an affiliate program or two.
You have to figure there is a marketing affiliate program with a high commission that will be of interest to you. Only, just watch out for the internet sharks! When it comes to Affiliate Programs, You are swiming, as it were, in shark-infested waters!
But first, a question – two actually -
When you fill your gas tank do you leave the tank lid open and then put your gas cap in the glove compartment?
Hopefully not.
Second, do you work for free?
Again, hopefully not.
Well, the fact of the matter is that if you plan to join an affiliate program, or any program with the intention of making money on the internet, your first step Must Be to set up an affiliate
link cloaker to help you protect your commissions. Otherwise you will, in effect, be leaving off your gas cap and you will wind up working for nothing or at the very least, far less than you are entitled.
And keep in mind, there are some Very High Commission affiliate programs out there! If you are interested in the info email me.
Bottom line, commissions to which you are entitled will either be subverted (ie. a buyer of the product will see your affiliate link ID and wipe it out) or (make that and/or) a full time thief
will hijack your earned commissions and make them his or her own.
But never once do they remember it is you who paid for that PPC (Pay per click advertising) that led them thru you to the product!
Trust me on this: it happened to me; it can (and if you leave bare affiliate links) so quite likely will happen to you.
In my case it was strictly by co-incidence that I was in touch with others in the same program and we began to compare notes and facts, and realized we were systematically being robbed of our commissions.
And Here Is The Lesson For You:
I contacted the FBI Internet Fraud Division, the FTC, the processor of the commissions and the webmaster.
The FBI said gee, thanks for the info, we will add it to our growing database …
The FTC said gee, thanks for the info, we will add it to our growing database, and here is some info on internet theft, and if we get enough complaints about this particular thief, some day we may actually go after him! Thanks again.
The processor said Gee, thanks for the info, but what do you want us to do about it.?
And the webmaster said … nothing. I never heard back!
THE ULTIMATE LESSON: YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.
Like the referee says to the boxers before Round 1: …Protect Yourself At All Times!
The good news is, now you are informed and to be forwarned is to be forearmed.
The bad news is that when it comes to affiliate link cloakers, you had better know ahead of time what you are getting into, and how to use the tools needed to get the cloaker going.
You need to know about FTP, PHP, creating a webpage from scratch, Domains, URL’s, uploading, hosting services, and webpages … oh yes, WARNING/NOTICE: If you use GoDaddy for your domain you CAN NOT use the Website Tonight feature for creating a cloaking domain.
Took me two days to find this out. I kept trying to upload an FTP program and it never would. I only got Error Messages. Finally, I called directly to the GoDaddy phone customer service
and was informed that I needed to create a new domain and use their hosting service method because the ‘Website Tonight’ feature does not upload. This applies to any service – you need full hosting service.
So I bought another domain, used the full hosting service instead of the Website Tonight service, and I was totally inept at creating an uploading website for my cloaker.
I kept writing the seller – I could see their PHP file, but I could not get that file to open. They kept sending me emails, etc. offering suggestions, but I never could get it to work.
I got my money back and suggested they modernize their program to provide more than just a ZIP file.
Could they not also provide an extractor and a program installer?? Hey, when was the last time you bought a program from any internet marketing company that did not Unzip and Install the program???
OK, I went to another cloaking program selling affiliate software. Same deal. They say it is so simple … just do this. Then do that. Then simply add this … Right. A week later, another wasted week and another request for a refund because I could not get their link cloaker, URL cloaker if you perfer, to work for me. Maybe YOU can get it to install and work poroperly but I could not. I had another program cloaker come with SIX pages (in small type) of
instructions! Heaven help me.
FINALLY, I got lucky. A webmaster that appreciates the problem of a non-guru who just wants to get those links protected without having to be a master programmer! If you want them to, they will have a programmer set the cloaker up for you and provide you with a website
hosting service that has the needed protocols, etc. Would I like them to set the whole thing up for me? WOULD I!
Thank goodness I found you! Heck yes.
So for a mere $30 extra I had the cloaking program set up professionally, PLUS I got three months of hosting free. No more frustrating hours and days messing with this stuff’.
Thirty bucks … its a bargain! Not to mention three free month’s of hosting service. Heck of a deal. And there is a video to introduce you to using the cloaking setup. Now, Finally, it really is easy. Literally 45 seconds to one minute! it was easy! Just type in two lines: The affiliate link and the ‘name’ identifier of the product such as ‘Dogfood’ or ‘Candlemaking’ etc.
I love it, they did the grunt work, it takes me a minute or less to do the set up!
OK, you read thru a lot to get to the program, but you need to be aware of the pitfalls and dangers of not cloaking and going over your head so to speak, unless you are a master at this stuff.
In either case, take it from me, unless you really know what you are doing, ask the professional to set everything up and do it without the frustration and aggravation of going it alone. By the way the set-up option is available after you sign up for the program. For more information feel free to visit: http://www.DontStealFromMe.info
P.S. As a thank you for visiting the review and staying with it (and to see the link protection in action) visit http://CoolInternetProducts.com/presents/EbooksPlus and keep your eye on the website URL and how it stays at this designation. Feel free to take advantage of the Ten Free Ebooks available for your visit. Finally, notice the identifing word ‘EbookPlus’ in the website address; that’s all I had to type on one of the two lines to create my protected affiliate link. Easy!
By: Mike Farber
About the Author:
Mike Farber writes Opinionated Reviews on various subjects.
He can be reached at
mikefarber@hotmail.com
