You’ve seen the e-mails, and all the hype surrounding affiliate marketing without using an e-mail list or having your own product – in other words, you’re pimping someone elses products.  Nothing wrong with this but what a lot of the ebooks don’t tell you is how to get real traffic to make this a worthwhile opportunity.

So how can you make boatloads of cash without having your own list or product? 

Traffic is the key.

First off – traffic through content is possible, but it will take time to build up.  If you read the $5.00 Per Day on Adsense post I made a little while ago and you downloaded the e-book and read it you would have learned that you need to push articles to dozens of content networks … oh, by the way a “content network” is just a fancy term for article directory.  It just sounds better when you call it a content network.

So how can you get thousands of visitors to your site per day in order to convert a small percentage (and when we talk small, we’re talking 1% in most cases – unless they are very targetted leads)?  Easy.  It’s called CPC advertising, or cost-per-click advertising – again another fancy term for using something like Google AdWords.

This is how it works.

1. Find good paying affiliate programs, perhaps they pay per lead or action (such as giving your e-mail address, phone number or other information) or a highly popular affiliate program through something like ClickBank (we’ll talk about that later and some of the pitfalls and warnings to watch for).
2. Find hundreds or thousands of related keywords for the product(s).
3. Bid on them via AdWords or another CPC network.
4. Drive traffic to your landing page

That’s how it’s done in a nutshell.

Of course, the difficult part is understanding all the steps in detail and putting what you’ve learned to action.

I’ve tried CPC/Adwords in the past and while I didn’t loose money, I didn’t do it well enough so only had moderate success at it.  This was also the same time that I jumped from program to program, thinking that the next thing is the sure thing – check my About page or read this post – Are you a forum junkie?.

Over the years, I’ve learned quite a bit more about how to advertise without loosing money but at the same time ensuring that I can convert the visits (convert means to get the visitor to perform a specific action so that I can collect the commission for that action).

This time around I’ve done my research, and am working with two competing programs — I’m not yet ready to disclose which programs I am working with right now but will do so soon enough.

So far I’ve been pretty impressed by both of these programs.  One program is VERY expensive – around $$$$ and the other is like the little brother to it costing considerably less (only $$).  Sorry that’s the only hint I will provide right now.

The one thing both systems provide are small case studies, along with the websites that were created for them.  The one thing I noticed right away, is that the sites are UGLY.  I’m serious, they are very, very ugly but the affiliate marketers claim to make phenomenal amounts of money with them. 

These are called landing pages.  A landing page can be something simple with nothing more than the offer and some other information or it can be a small mini-site (do you remember a product called mini-site profits from a few years ago – apparently it’s no longer available, but don’t worry you can find similar information on the web for free — in fact this $5.00 Per Day on Adsense gives you similar information to build a mini-site).  Phil Wiley had a product about mini-sites, as did Michael Rasmussen (if I remember correctly).

There is another system available called The Mini Site Formula that sells for $97.00 or a $1,997.00 option.  Yes, there is a price difference… but when you read their sales page you see that they will give you one of their profitable sites for that price.

So what is a mini-site, just what it sounds like.  A mini-site is like a full-blown site but on a much smaller scale.  There may be perhaps 8-10 well written articles that provide useful information, along with a short sales pitch plus an opt-in box along with the regular pages (Privacy Policy, Contact Us and About).  The idea is to use CPC to lead people to either a very generic landing page or a mini-site.

Combine CPC + CPA + landing pages OR mini-sites + e-mail captures and you can achieve the following:

CAPTIVE AUDIENCE – by capturing their e-mail you have a VERY HIGH probability of being able to sell them on future offers.  Think about it, they were looking for something, found your site and were willing to give you their e-mail address.

MONEY – chances are they will also click through on your advertising and purchase or give up some information.

As I go through more of the material, I’ll combine what I know with what’s presented (I won’t give you the details of HOW but high-level WHAT) and post here.  Please, don’t expect regular posts on the topic – and I won’t give the dirty details because that would be unethical.  What I will do is package the information into informative posts, you can already find a lot of it FREELY out there but I will put my own spin onto it.

Mohamed

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Over the course of the year Mo and I have gone from writing about making money on the internet to some practical advice from our own experiences.  Some of the topics we’ve written about get many responses, and others none.  Some topics even generate quite a bit of e-mail (how did YOU find our e-mail address anyways?!).

We received this question/comment a few days ago about affiliate marketing:

“Hi – I’ve tried affiliate marketing without any real success.  I spent money on advertising but did not see any return at all.  I doubt affiliate marketing works.  I tried affiliate marketing in about one dozen hot areas…” blah, blah, blah.

There is more, but that’s the gist of it.

In the end, the writer states that “affiliate marketing failed me“.  Uh, no – YOU failed in affiliate marketing.

Nobody said that affiliate marketing is easy, what is easy in life?  If everything were then we would all be millionaires (like me), right?

Affiliate marketing works – but it took me a few days to come up with “The Top 3 Reasons Most People Fail At Affiliate Marketing“.

Reason #3 – Why You SUCK and Failed At Affiliate Marketing

You’re a total ass and don’t have what it takes to get off of your ass, and stick to a plan, set goals or follow through with any of the procedures or processes that Affiliate Managers and their organizations provide.  Truth be told, you’ll always be sitting on your backside rubbing salt into your own wounds and being jealous and envious of others because you can’t learn from your mistakes.

Seriously affiliate marketing is so bloody easy that I’m sure if I told Mo’s 6-year old kid how to do it and gave him step-by-step instructions, he could.

It is simple – here are the basic steps:

• Pick an area of interest – say something goofy like chocolate covered tofu.
• Next pick a domain name that reflects your topic of interest – how about http://www.chocolatecoveredtofu.com and register it.
• Pick up a CHEAP, CHEAP host to host your domain, you can get it for under $10.00 per month at http://www.findmyhosting.com.
• Create a website – set-it up as a blog, most hosting packages have provisions to set-up a blog without any fuss.  If you need help – contact us and we’ll be glad to help set you up for $100.00 flat fee payable through PayPal.
• Write and advertise… OK, OK there is a bit more to it as you do need to have specific plug-ins loaded in your install but once the basics are there, there is nothing else to do except promote yourself!

Even if you can’t write daily – you can HIRE someone to write for you.  I am not going to go into hiring writers for your business in this post, there is just too much to talk about!  But either Mo or I will talk about it, OK?

So besides the fact that You SUCK and Failed At Affiliate Marketing…

Reason #2 – You Couldn’t Focus An Auto-Focus Camera, Let Alone Focus On Your Business

True, true true.  You are so dense you can’t even figure out what to do next.  FOCUS is the keyword.  Focus on your goals and develop plans to get there.  One of Mo’s goals is to ensure his kid has enough to go to univeristy.  He’s focused on this, so does what he can to ensure his kid is prepared – from sending him to a private montessori, to a private school so that he gets a good education, to ensuring the toys he has helps build his skills and brain AND have fun! 

That’s what I mean by FOCUS.  You have a goal in mind, and you work towards that goal.  Not some pansy pie-in-the-sky dream that will take you a gazillion dollars inside of a week.

Pick ONE product that you can promote effectively.  Work at it until you’ve developed a system that works so well you could hire someone to do it (hey… there is another topic that we will be talking about soon) then repeat the process with another product and keep going until you’ve got 5 or 10 or 50 products. 

Think about this, if one product gets you say $1,000 per month and you can successfully duplicate the process for another product 10 times – that could put $10,000 into your pocket each and every month.  WOW.  You would almost be making as much as I do – almost.

Reason #1 – You Are Clueless About Target Marketing

Seen this all the time in the consultations that Mo and I have undertaken (we do only a few per year due to both of our time committments to family and enjoying the good life – we charge $1,500.00 per consultation which includes up to 30 hours of support).

You start selling a hot product, instead of targetting that market.  Yes these are TWO different things.  Stores like Wal-Mart can sell hot products, they don’t care about targetting the market – if they did they would be like a EB GAMES or other niche player.  Wal-Mart sells anything and everything; their clerks in Electronics don’t know shit about shit.

Try selling chocolate covered tofu if you know shit about chocolate covered tofu.  You don’t have to be an expert, but you should know enough to target the products appropriately.  HINT: Hang out where people talk about chocolate covered tofu.

So there yah have it – the Top 3 Reasons Why You Suck And Failed At Affiliate Marketing or some thing else…

Oh yah, I am back…

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Is it reliable ???

A lot of confusion people are saying u can earn bucks with affiliates but in my opinion its not that easy to earn the bucks from affiliate …

Friends – it all depends on the effort that you are willing to put into affiliate marketing, or for that matter ANY type of business opportunity you decide to undertake.  This could be an online business, or offline business – regardless of the type of business you need people to drive your business forward (or should I say customers).

Consider an offline business that’s in the service industry.  You spend $100,000.00 to set-up shop.  That includes the cost of leasing a space, purchasing equipment and supplies, purchasing the raw material (food) to prepare your products.  BUT you forget about placing ads in the newspaper, and local community papers about your upcoming grand opening.  You neglect to contact community centers, or even media outlets about your new business – in fact you don’t even tell your friends or family!!!  Instead you stick up a few “grand opening” flyers on windows, toss in some balloons and hope for the best.

As a result, your first day is a total flop.  Sure you sell some products – but only to passers by; even then hundreds of people didn’t even notice your new shop because you failed to… ADVERTISE.  You never even thought of putting up a board to direct people into the shop.

Affiliate marketing is not easy.  You need to stay with it.  But how can you attract visitors to your site in some highly competetive areas?  I can think of a few ways:

Be DIFFERENT.  Yes, it’s hard to be different but you should look at the offline world and look at what the big companies are doing and put your own twist onto the promotion and try it online.

For example, suppose you are setting up a website for coffee or tea affiliate programs (trust me, they are BIG business).  You need visitors, and need visitors that will come back often.  You want to do all the right things first:

• Set-up an RSS feed through FeedBurner or another RSS aggregator.  This will capture the more advanced visitors/readers who know all about RSS and how it works.
• Set-up an e-mail alerts system.  This will capture less advanced visitors/readers, that don’t understand RSS and prefer to get e-mail alerts and then visit your site (this is a GOOD thing).

Next you need to drive visitors to your site.  How will you do that?

• Advertising. Think Google, Yahoo all the BIG search engines advertising programs.  But don’t stop there!  Look at like minded sites and see if you can strike up advertising with them.  It could be as simple as swapping ads in e-zines or swapping button/banners on each others site.  Why like minded?  Why would you advertise for tea or coffee on a site selling plants or BBQ’s?  Doesn’t make a lot of sense – right?
• Article marketing.  Friends – THIS WORKS!  But you need to be consistent.  Draw up a list of topics that would be of interest to coffee or tea drinkers (trust me, there are A LOT of topics) and write about them.  Write each article in such a way that it could be a blog post (or two, or three – you get the idea).  Post to your blog first, then a few days later post to the major article repositories on the web (I will provide these in an upcoming post).

Once you have visitors, you want them to “stick”.  How will you do that?

• Contests.  Everyone loves a contest, and if you can get coffee/tea suppliers (equipment, specialty products) to sponsor your contest you could give away some grand prizes!
• Freebies.  This works very well, though could cost you a lot of money but consider how much advertising would cost you.  It could work something like this.  For the first 100 sign-ups to your e-mail alerts or RSS feed (you need them to send you their mailing address) you send them a small bag of coffee or some speciality teas.  Why would you want to do this?  Well, for one you’ve captured their e-mail address AND their mailing address.  Think DIRECT MARKETING.  It still works, especially if it is targetted!

People LOVE free stuff.

Think about all the types of things you can give away, that people would appreciate.  Several years ago, I helped someone run a promotion for free pedometers on their site (it worked so good, I did the same thing).  I found a supplier willing to sell me around 1,000 pedometers for about $1.00 each, the condition was that we had to leave his company label on the pedometer – it was like one of those “made in China” stickers.  The trade off was great. 

Then he ran a promotion on his site to get people to sign up to his e-mail alerts.  The condition of course was that they had to provide a valid e-mail address, and provide a mailing address so that he could send the pedometer to them.

Now you may be thinking that that was expensive, if I remember correctly it ended up costing him about $3,000 to get 1,000 visitors.  I never dug past that, so don’t know what type of attrition rate he had – but consider that some keywords in health and fitness can sell for WELL OVER $3.00 each he ended up getting highly targetted visitors legitimate e-mail address AND mailing address for only $3,000.00 – you can’t get that anywhere.

He used the mailing address to send out other freebies randomly.  Sometimes he’d pick 5 or 10 people and send out a $20.00 book.  One time he got a good deal on those big pilates balls and sent out three.  As a result of these random gifts, he didn’t loose many readers because they never knew what they’d get.  In fact he found that he got more sign-ups over time as the initial bunch told friends which expected that they may get something as well.

The money he was making from affiliate sales was helping drive these types of promotions.  And did he make money – treadmills pay up to $200.00 per sale, he could sell (through his affiliate promotions) 5 to 10 per month.  But he also knew the peak times to be “pushing” these types of products (think early-mid new year; after everyone has had their feasts over Christmas and New Years).

Definately earning money as an affiliate is a numbers game – the more visitors you have, the greater the chance that they purchase through your affiliate link.  The more sites you have the greater the chance of each site earning some money.  When you decide to concentrate on a specific area, whether that be sports (such as golf, hockey, soccer, baseball, basketball), health and fitness, lifestyle or any other area you quickly move away from “affiliate” sales and moving into more of a business.

Now don’t think that this is the end of things – in fact, you can still move into other area to make even more money.  Think about creating your own product or products:

• E-books
• Online courses
• Video courses
• MP3
  • You can get these transcribed
• Teleseminars
  • Which can be turned into MP3s

You only need to look at the offline world, plus what other sites are doing to get more ideas on how you can take a hobby or interest and turn it into a business making you anything from a few hundred dollars per month to thousands of dollars per month!

Do you have other ideas that you would like to share that perhaps I’ve not covered?  Why not participate and leave us your comment!

Take care!

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So Lets Kick It! off with Affiliate Programs.

I am going to break down this post into two individual posts, the first part will focus on what exactly affiliate programs are, and how they work.  The second part will present you with a blueprint that you can use to start making money with affiliate programs.

In order to truly understand how affiliate programs work, and how you can make money with affiliate programs lets get you some of the basic information about affiliate programs, how they work and how they can make you money.

Think back to retail sales – I’m sure everyone has done some retail in their time.  I’ve worked several retail jobs – most positions were hourly wage + commission, while some were hourly wage only (those really sucked sometimes).

The sales positions that were hourly wage + commission were great – the more I sold, the more I made and each item carried a different commission rate.  The commissions were anywhere from 5% of a product to as much as 25% of the product, but you should also remember that many of the products had HUGE markups.  For example a computer cable (any type) were purchased for around $0.50 each and sold for well over $9.95 to as much as $19.95.

Sales + Commission jobs were usually a win-win situation.  If the sales person is good at what they do, they make great commissions, otherwise they just get an hourly wage — but most companies do expect their sales people to meet some quotas, so you can’t really sit on your backside expecting a job for long.

Affiliate programs are sort-of like your sales job but you get only a commission, no hourly wage.

Like the sales job, you are only as good as the products you try to “sell”, and how well you promote your products.  The more competetive the product, guaranteed the more competetive the keywords would be to sell that product – that’s why you see so many people resort to spamming (think about all those viagra and discount pharmacy e-mails you get).  If someone could send out 50,000,000 e-mails for viagra and they happen to get a 1% hit who happen to buy – they’ve just made a few dollars.

Affiliate programs allow you to sell hundreds of different products without knowing a thing about the products.  You could set-up one or a hundred websites selling everything from fruit baskets, to meat and wine, to construction equipment or consumer goods.  Some products will need more finesse, and in some cases you could even create your own affiliate program (we’ll talk about this later) even if a company doesn’t have such a program.

Affiliate programs are nothing more than revenue sharing opportunities.

Here is an example of how an affiliate program works.

Suppose I enjoy golf.  I’m a golf fanatic.  I live and breathe golf, so naturally I’d like to make some money off of my addiction… er, hobby.

So I set-up a golfing website or blog and I post regularly.  I’ve amassed quite a readership, but I’m not monetizing the visitors nor am I doing anything to monetize my regulars.

So I sign-up to a few of the top affiliate networks out there and sign-up for several of the best rated golfing programs.

Initially I just slap on the advertisments on the blog, and though I make some money it’s nowhere what I could be doing.  So rather than just post advertisements, I make the advertisements part of the posts.  I include ads at the start and end of the posts, but I also try other things.

For example, I decide to do a series of posts on how to improve your swing and in the course of the posts I also have someone video tape some lessons – perhaps teasers, perhaps freebies (you do know what I’m getting at, don’t you?  I won’t go into it here – but will save this discussion for another post).  But as I post the series, I ensure each set of posts is keyword rich for specific keywords.

Each of the keywords that I am targetting is then linked to a specific affiliate program – because the keywords are phrases that are searched on there is a very high probability that they pages will get picked-up by the search engines and if I’ve done my job right then I may get into the top 3, 5 or 10 listings.

Each time someone clicks on the link they are redirected through my affiliate link (which includes my special tracking ID) and if they purchase an item – I get a commission on it.

Now I may only make $5 or $100 per item (or even more) but if I can direct 10,000 people to my site daily and out of that I manage to interest 10% of the people to click on the links (so that’s 1,000 people) and out of that 1,000 people 3% buy something (so that’s 30 people) then I get a commission on their purchase.  It could be a few dollars to as much as $300 or more (for example, treadmill sales regularly result in commissions in excess of $100 — redirect and sell 10 of those per month and you’re making some good money).

Affiliate sales are a numbers game – you need to drive visitors to your site and your content needs to be good enough to have them return and click on the links.

Something else you want to do with any affiliate site you run (especially if it’s something you enjoy) is to further monetize it:

• Set-up e-mail subscriptions/lists
• Create personalized or general training guide or videos
• Create and develop physical products

That’s only the tip of the iceberg – there is so much more that you can do with an affiliate site.

I will expand on this article to go into more detail on how you would pull all this information together to create a tight, well developed website that is guaranteed to make you money (well, I can’t really guarantee you anything).

As always I welcome your feedback and questions!

Take care!

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Hi,

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not beyond your reach.  I am sure you have average or above-average intelligence, you must be willing to work hard otherwise you would not be reading my posts and visiting other sites, I’m sure you have a basic grasp of blogging technology.

Then why is that that some people just don’t make it?  Couple of reasons.  More often that not bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging. 

Friends – it takes TIME!  When I read my stats I can see that my feed are being picked-up by several hundred individuals — however not everyone will use services like FeedBurner so that you can actively measure how far your message is being spread.  Not everyone will subscribe to blog alerts for fear of being spammed (I don’t spam).

The other trap that many fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.

There are a few ways you can make money on the internet:

• Affiliate Sites – you could set-up one or more affiliate sites and actively promote them and drive traffic to those sites.  You make money when visitors click on the links and in most cases when they purchase a product/service using your affiliate ID.  There are pitfalls to this strategy – your affiliate ID could get stripped off of the link or the visitor bypasses you entirely and enters the affiliate ID directly into the address bar.

  On the other side, if you are able to market the right products, you can make A LOT of money through affiliate sales and referrals!

  Two people that I can recommend to you are:

  1.  James Martell (www.jamesmartell.com) – he’s a local guy (Vancouver, BC Canada) that makes money through affiliate websites.  He has A LOT of sites – not one or two and does outsource much of the work of running the sites.  He concentrates on building quality articles to drive traffic to his sites.  Here is a sample site of James’ http://www.1st-in-cell-phones.com/ - if you’ve ever run into this design, this is James’ work.

  2.  Rosiland Gardner (http://superaffiliatehandbook.com/) is another person you could read up on.  She consistently makes $30k – $50k per month through affiliate sales.  If I remember correctly, she’s another Canadian.

  I am sure there are others, but these two come to mind as they were the first two that I am familiar with.  Now mind you what they teach isn’t rocket science – but if you’re totally new the information they provide will help you.

  Now as you read both of these peoples stories, you are going to think “Hey…wait a minute!  They’re Internet Marketers!!” – and my answer would be YES, they are.

  They turned their affiliate businesses into internet marketing businesses by teaching others how to become top-tier affiliates.  This is called diversification, and every business needs to do this.  There may be dry spells in one area, but if you’ve got other areas to work on they can hold you over. 

Whether you decide to start a blog, and try blogging for profit or run affiliate sites you need:

1. Readers
2. Visitors

No matter the type of site – these two are important.  No readers?  Who are you going to sell to?  No visitors?  Same problem.

As a side effect of having many readers AND visitors you can diversify your income streams by selling advertising.

Self-proclaimed DOT COM MOGUL, John Chow made $29,000 in February 2008 (http://www.johnchow.com/blog-income-report-february-2008/).  His private ad sales raked in just over $14,000.00.

That brings me to the second way you can make money – BLOGGING.  John Chow (and there may be others) consistently makes $30,000 per month blogging.  Of course he is monetizing his traffic and does several things to generate income:

• private ad sales
• affiliate commissions
• text link ads
• ReviewMe service
• Kontera
• TTZ Media (one of his services)

He blogs about making money through blogging.  Pretty simple, huh?

I also suggest you follow Alan Johnson over at www.theratingblog.com:

 As a blogger, I started out 3 months ago with, just like everybody else: a functional website and a solid business model, 1 visitor (myself) and no RSS readers/newsletter subscribers.

Three months later, having reached one milestone after another, I currently find myself receiving over 50,000 unique monthly visits/ 200,000 monthly impressions and, with over 1,500 RSS readers / 1,500 newsletter subscribers, it’s definitely clear that TheRatingBlog.com is on the right track.

Can you imagine if John Chow were to create internet marketing material and charge a premium for his products?  Forget $30k per month – I’m sure he would TOP that easily.

John makes a lot of money selling traffic, so the more traffic your site gets, the more advertisers will agree to pay you.

Building a strong base of visitors is hard work, You will need to be able to market your blog effectively.

Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project or interacting with other bloggers.  Most definately updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines like Technorati.

Once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis.

However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site.

To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality make sure that you set aside some time to draw new visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic (commenting on like minded blogs works GREAT).

Regardless of what you do success is not going to happen overnight.  Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time and you need to win your readers trust.  TRUST is the key.  It’s hard to build but so very easy to loose.

If you are going to blog for profit, stay committed to your project during the initial period.  To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.

In my post tomorrow, I’ll go into another method of making money online – stay tuned!

Regards,

Mohamed

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Hi,

I remember running affiliate sites, I used to generate some pretty good income from affiliate sales even if I was not building my own business. 

In the good old days most of the people who clicked on your affiliate links used to purchase without a second thought… but, now as times are getting tougher, and visitors getting more cynical, you’ll be amazed at the number of people who won’t.  For whatever reason, if a visitor can “smell” an affiliate link — they will do what they can to bypass it.

It’s pretty easy to spot an affiliate link.  Most affiliate links are some form or the other of

• http://www.thesite.com/?YOURID
• http://www.thesite.com/?aid=xyz&prod=1455&uid=1231

Pretty easy to spot, right?

Where your affiliate id is passed as a parameter. A thief has to simply change the “YOURID” part to “THEIR ID” to put your money into their pocket – of even simpler, just cut off everything after the .com – in either scenario, you loose.

Why do people do this?  Simply that they can’t stand the thought of you “making money off them” so they bypass you by simply chopping off the end of your affiliate link that contains your ID or just heading to the website and searching for the product themselves.

Affiliate marketers and retailers are smart to this and may run special promotions using your ID as part of the “coupon” code — but more often than not this is an added headache that not all retailers or affiliate programs will get into.  Besides if they can keep an extra $200 in commission — why not?

But there has always been one aspect of affiliate marketing which plagues most affiliate marketers – that’s affiliate ID theft.

It works two ways:

1. Your affiliate ID gets hijacked, by those that know how to manipulate the system.
2. Your affiliage ID get chopped off, by those that know how to manipulate the system.

In either of these cases, there are no sure fire ways to protect your commission but there are deterrants.  One such deterrant is Jack Keifers’ AmazingCloaker 4.

Click on the link to look at Jacks’ application – although the technology behind his application has been around for quite some time he packages everything into a great slick application that will keep most users honest.  If you’re trying to stop a dedicated thief, then unfortunately there isn’t anything out there that will really stop them.

Check out Jacks’ program – if you will be running affiliate programs on your site then this is a tool that you do want to keep on your desktop and readily accessible.

Regards,

Mohamed

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