Possible Stolen Commissions...

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Here's the situation. I've been making affiliate sales for a certain company and they've been pretty consistent but they totally stopped after Saturday. I've checked everything and all looks as if it's still working just fine.

I'm beginning to suspect that either someone may be stealing my commissions or the company itself may have stopped crediting me with sales (though I don't think that's near as likely). See, for a while I was cloaking my links but I admit I got away from doing that, partially because I had a theory that it may have been harming my conversion rates.

I'm curious about this though: If I cloak my links again, how does that really protect me from thievery? Won't the person just click through, find my real link and then steal it? (I don't really know how that works and don't tell me). Is there even a way to guard against that?

I think I'm going to talk to customer service and ask them if they may be able to give me a new referral ID and trash the old one. Then I'll go through and replace my links. But if I do that, I hope I can at least protect against this happening again, if that is in fact the problem. I'm also considering promoting a similar company who unfortunately doesn't pay or convert as well.
#commissions #stolen
  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Yeah but affiliate theft is individual its not wide spread so you shouldn't lose all your commissions. What are you using to track and what are your stats saying.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkWinsford
    There are 2 different situations:

    1) a single affiliate just steal some clicks and commissions
    2) a software or a link shorter steal all your commissions automatically.

    In both cases a normal cloaking service is good but the best way to protect your commissions is a cloaker that also encrypt the destination URL. This is just ana example but you can find other on the web: How to mask urls in affiliate tracking links
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