How Does Spyware Kills Your Affiliate Marketing Business

An affiliate marketer works hard to bring quality traffic to his affiliate partners via his affiliate links. But in reality almost more than 30% of affiliate sales being hijacked by affiliate hijackers either manually or using spywares. Manual affiliate hijacking is done by manually replacing affiliate id from affiliate links. For example, assume you have a Clickbank affiliate id, and you would like to purchase a product from Clickbank which is being promoted by other affiliate marketer. All you have to do is to replace the affiliate id in the link with yours and click the link. When you purchase the product, the affiliate commission will be paid to you rather than the original affiliate marketer.

Another more dangerous way of hijacking affiliate commissions is by using spyware that attaches and watches the browser for Clickbank, CJ and other well known affiliate links or hop links in the page the surfer is viewing. As soon as it sees a known hop link ( the link which carries your affiliate link) it changes the affiliate ID of the affiliate link to the one owned by the spyware creator. This will be done every time on pages which has anyone’s affiliate link as long as the spyware is in the user’s computer.

Every time someone clicks the affiliate links on pages which carries affiliate links , the credits are actually being credited to someone else! Your visitors are not even getting a chance to see the affiliate links being hijacked because they are changed before anyone notices it.

Therefore, knowledge of how to cloak affiliate links should be a knowledge that affiliate marketer must learn, This will definitely help to avoid the precious efforts placed to promote the links from being credited to others.