Using Affiliate Hijacker - Is it Ethical?

on the real website, you can see a copyscape badge on the bottom that says:

"DO NOT COPY"

hmmmm... I wonder what that means.

AH works very, very similar. Iframes also merely display the remote site, the URL in the browser could stay on your URL. It's only technical differences in regards to the implementation, the basics are the same.
However, no one would ask whether "iframes are illegal". (From a clickbank TOS view i think i remember they are actually not "legal" either since hoplinks are supposed to open in a NEW TOP window)

AH/ASQ fetches a remote site and displays it "on the fly", but it doesn't store any site elements on your server. Similar like a redirect or iframe redirect would "display" a site under another URL... (many affiliates do this for their affiliate links)...AH/ASQ is just a little more advanced

Btw. the name/branding was changed to get rid of the "underground theme" since AH/ASQ does not use any black hat technique really (at least not at default settings). Furthermore i wanted to distance myself from affiliatehijack.com which has nothing to do with my tool at all!

Everything legal isn't ethical. How would you feel if you had built a program and someone did what you are doing? If it bothers you, take that as your first clue - any clue after that doesn't count.

If you do have questions, though - perhaps you should contact the person who owns the target site in question. If there isn't anything wrong with what you are doing and they agree (you did say they would still get their commissions?), you have it in writing from the get and don't have to worry beyond that.

According to this, thousands of affiliates who use iframes or redirects, like the widely used "www.example.com/recommends/affiliateproduct.php" redirect method would be "semi criminals" since they "point to" and show the target site in question.

The target site in question (in the case of clickbank) is reached via hoplink, it is a site/landing page which is *intended* for the purpose that 3rd parties (affiliates) use the link to promote/sell the product.

Any current method of affiliate link cloaking/hiding uses similar methods (if they stay on the original url)..and therefore would be "illegal".
However, i repeated a few times, eg. in the FAQ that it never can hurt to ask a vendor beforehand, just to avoid confusion.
There might be some vendors who dont want you to use the design/look of their sales/clickbank landing pages - but i can tell you that the huge majority, especially on programs like clickbank are glad if affiliates promote and sell their products, also with iframing methods, "hijacked" or whatever we want to call it. (Noteworthy to mention, again, that nothing of the target site is stored on the server, the site is merely "displayed".)
While there might be some vendors who do not want affiliates to use their design/materials there are others who actually offer pre-made PR material like banners/headers/whole sites, they even encourage them to use this material on their affiliate sites.

And as I stated above, if someone has enough doubt about something to ask here whether or not a method is "ethical" then that should be enough reason NOT to use the method.

I appreciate your response. I am thinking about the purchase, but my situation is financially very bad. So even $47 has to be a big decision. There is much I don't know why your system will help me any better than having a squeeze page and then sending them on to the original sales page of the vendor. There must obviously be a reason. So I was thinking why not a squeeze page that sends the visitor to this page your script generates. Or, why not generate a pop up like seen on many pages to gather that data for a list, and hopefully include some kind of free report etc.

I am struggling now to figure the best way to build a list. Being unable to work and living on SS disability makes it a little difficult to have extra money to do the stuff i would like to as most things, like your software cost money which I don't have. But no one said it was easy, and we all have to deal with the problems life brings us.

Anyway, I am glad I got you thinking about the list. I think it is probably a very important part. I think the answer is in this post, it is just the coding that needs to be figured out. But that is definitely over my pay grade.

So George,

I think I am going to have to charge you royalties on this form idea. You are kind of twisting my arm to buy this software. If you get the form thing figured out and I bought it, would I get the upgrade or would I need to buy that or would it be included in the price as now offered?

That's not entirely true...you were selling the cloned sites on Digital Point...and your domain name contained copyrighted terms.

2 very important distinctions over just framing a site for affiliate promotion.

The person whom cloned your site was much more experienced at this type of system and SEO tactics as well.

They probably run hundreds, maybe thousands of promotions this way.

And yes, some of the biggest names in marketing do this as well, though I do not agree with it.

Not exactly... you aren't passing it off as your own you are just now in control as an affiliate. The product owner still gets credit for the sale..

Mike Hill

PS. Google duplicate content... you're kidding right?

Hardy har har!

lol
By the way, in terms of PPC, if i would just need a quick landing page for my PPC campaigns, i really wouldn't care about duplicates.
It might also be "quite difficult" (to say it mildly) to promote a known product off ClickBank (Say, "Affiliate Elite" et. all) and NOT have a dupe....with a product which hundreds/thousands promote.
There are better methods to make a new site from scratch for such situations, and Affiliate Site Quick (Affiliate Hijacker) would not be the tool for "making a site from scratch", its not a site designer. Then better get out your MS Expression WEB instead...

Okay, I don't normally get into topics about technology, but I've been
affiliate marketing for Clickbank for 6 years now.

As you know, or maybe you don't know, because of spam complaints, you are
no longer allowed to use Clickbank hop links in emails. If you're going to
promote a Clickbank product, you have to use a redirect.

So, what I do is is create a simple PHP script for each of my ads and put
it on a rotator. I won't print the whole code because it will drive you nuts
but effectively what it does is it takes a URL that looks like this...

httpxx://www.stevewagenheim.com/rotator.php?ad=32

and when the user clicks on the link, they are redirected to the main
sales page through my hoplink that is inside the php script.

Now, in essence, doesn't this make it look like it's my sales page since
that's what they're seeing?

So I don't see the difference between what I'm doing (which Clickbank
has approved and every vendor I use has had no problems with) and
what this AH thing does. Of course I don't know all the particulars but
isn't AH nothing but just a redirect script, or am I missing something?