How to protect your Affiliate Links

March 19, 2008 | By admin In Affiliate Marketing |

A lot of people know that it is easy to take out the affiliate link in a website. Now, for people using Affiliate Marketing as a method to make money, this can be really bad for your profits if your affiliate links are being changed or removed on the websites you advertise them on. Here are some methods on how you can protect these links so you can keep these sales.

1. META Refresh - You could make a page which uses a simple META refresh method to redirect the users to the link. That way, it will make it less easier to remove the link. However, sometimes Search Engines don’t like this.

2. Redirection Service - Alternatively, you could use a URL Redirection Service which will protect your URL. An example of this is tinyurl.com, which is one of the more popular ones of its kind.

3. Ad Tracking Service - You could use an ad tracking service. This will hide the affiliate link on the page you display it which will make it less easier to remove the link. Another advantage of this is that you can track the statistics that are coming in and out of your link.

4. Javascript Redirect - This is like a META Refresh, but you’re going to redirect via Javascript instead. This is like the same thing.

5. Use a script protection program. An example of this is one that we actually gave out on a previous Super Script Day. You can find this on Day 7.

There are 5 easy methods how you can stop commission fraud. This is very important because you could be losing sales from a silly thing like this.

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