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Affiliate Warning: You're Losing Sales Doing This..

by Dave Lovelace
13 replies
Warriors

I've been seeing this lately and it's sad, because money is being
tossed down the drain in PPC costs and time wasted with other
marketing methods.

Stop cloaking your links that produce frames so that the cloaked
URL shows up in the browser instead of the vendor's URL.

This is preventing you from getting credit for sales!

I've seen this at least twice this past week. I went through to
the vendors Clickbank order form after seeing an affiliate ad
and saw "None" as the referring affiliate!

If you're doing this, check your links. Better yet, have a friend
check them because you may already have your cookie on your
computer which will falsely make you think it's working.

You should be Cloaking your links, but you should be doing it
properly. Here are 5 ways to do this along with code to create
a proper redirect on your own domain..

How To Cloak And Mask Affiliate Links


Hope this helps.

Dave Lovelace
#affiliate #affiliate link #affiliate marketing #cloaker #losing #masking #ppc #sales #warning
  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan Ferraro
    Thanks for the tip Dave. I'll check my cloaked links out, and see if I'm having the same problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author dmarek87
    Hi Dave, I looked at something you posted in an old thread (9 ways to 1,000 a month) and it interested me. I looked over the 9 ways and I would like to ask you something about one of them, but I don't have enough posts to PM you. Can you give me your email address so I can email you a question?

    Thanks from,

    Dave
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave Lovelace
      Originally Posted by dmarek87 View Post

      Hi Dave, I looked at something you posted in an old thread (9 ways to 1,000 a month) and it interested me. I looked over the 9 ways and I would like to ask you something about one of them, but I don't have enough posts to PM you. Can you give me your email address so I can email you a question?

      Thanks from,

      Dave
      Hey.. just go to davelovelacesupport.com or reply to any email you receive from me.

      Dave
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  • Profile picture of the author awddjawb
    Great Advice!
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    If you don't check your links then you deserve not to be paid. And it's very simple to clear cookies and check yourself.

    You should be cloaking your links, you just need to do it correctly.
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    I always wondered about that - good info for affiliate marketers
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  • Profile picture of the author HowToMakeAWebsite
    Nice post Dave nothing stinks more then when you find out you are loosing out on sales because of some dumb error!
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Silvester
    Hi Mate,

    Great advice there...

    If you want an easier way to cloak your
    link with a php redirect and to also upload
    the file to your website at the same time
    you can use this free service I created.

    Click-2-Cloak

    That should make life easier for you.

    Take Care,

    Michael Silvester
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  • Profile picture of the author caseyzeman
    Hi Dave I went to your site and grabbed the bit of html, I am not very good at this I think because I am having a rough time with it.

    I put the code you had in a new webpage on my html editor. In the source. I then named it product.php

    Then i uploaded to my host through filezilla, it didnt seem to work . i might not be doing this thing correctly. Sorry for being a hastle.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave Lovelace
      Originally Posted by caseyzeman View Post

      Hi Dave I went to your site and grabbed the bit of html, I am not very good at this I think because I am having a rough time with it.

      I put the code you had in a new webpage on my html editor. In the source. I then named it product.php

      Then i uploaded to my host through filezilla, it didnt seem to work . i might not be doing this thing correctly. Sorry for being a hastle.
      Copy and paste the code into notepad. Replace the URL with your affiliate link, double checking is correct and starting with http://, and making sure not to delete the quotation mark immediately after the link. Then save to your desktop (or wherever) as a .php extension and (example: report.php). Then upload the file to your domain in public_html.

      Then your new affiliate link will be yourdomain.com/report.php

      Hope that helps
      Dave
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      • Profile picture of the author FSchmieder
        Originally Posted by Dave Lovelace View Post

        Copy and paste the code into notepad. Replace the URL with your affiliate link, double checking is correct and starting with http://, and making sure not to delete the quotation mark immediately after the link. Then save to your desktop (or wherever) as a .php extension and (example: report.php). Then upload the file to your domain in public_html.

        Then your new affiliate link will be yourdomain.com/report.php

        Hope that helps
        Dave
        You can also do it by making a sub folder in your domain and simply naming your .php file index.php. So it would be mysite.com/folder which would redirect to the affiliate offer. Some people even do something like make a folder called suggests and then putting subfolders in there so it would read mysite.com/suggests/affiliate product

        edit: I just read your report which says the same exact thing lol
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  • Profile picture of the author caseyzeman
    Thanks Dave, i am going to try it again, really appreciate the link!
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  • Profile picture of the author mghowell
    Good to know
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