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How to Stop Your Affiliate Links from Getting Hijacked

Dec13
2009
Leave a Comment Written by Keith Nickel

Just the other day I was looking through the stats from one of my affiliate marketing campaigns and noticed that I was suddenly converting at under 5%. Considering I was using a sales funnel that had been tested again and again to convert over 40% – I was extremely confused. Of course I double checked all of the statistics and assumed it would pick up in a day or two. Well a week passed.

It STAYED at under 5% conversion.

I just couldn’t figure out why it was converting so low. I decided to ask one of my online friends who was an established internet marketer and he just laughed and said, ‘you aren’t using anything to cloak your links, are you?’

Unfortunately I wasn’t, I actually had no idea how to cloak my links or why I should. After asking him a little more about it I figured out why you should always cloak your affiliate links – people and programs will change your affiliate link to their own and steal your commissions! There is a type of spyware that does just that, whenever a user visits a ClickBank product (as well as other affiliate programs), it replaces the referrer ID with the spyware creator’s.

That means I was basically handing over all of my commissions to this thief. The worst part is that I had lost a few days of sells already, I wish I had known about cloaking links before that points. There are a bunch of ways to cloak links, but some break the cookies while others screw up the redirect.

If you aren’t positive of your sales being genuine and correct, it may be that someone is stealing your commissions. This is especially true if you’ve recently noticed a drop in sales, or if your campaigns are performing well under your expectations. It isn’t extremely hard to find a guide about link cloaking, but most don’t take affiliate marketing into account and might screw up the cookies so you STILL don’t get commissions.

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Other than link cloaking there isn’t a definitive way to stop others from hijacking your affiliate links. Luckily you can implement a cloak on your links within minutes, you just need to find a good cloak. The problem definitely isn’t a lack of available programs – it’s a lack of programs that actually work and get you the sale.

You can split test your campaign a thousand times and set up brilliant sales funnels, but it won’t make a difference if you aren’t using a good link cloaking program or service.

Discover more about link cloaking in the free Cloak and Dagger Affiliate Secrets report. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link if you sign up at Clickbank Pirate.

Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations - Tagged improve conversion, link cloaking, link hijacking, stop affiliate link hijacking, stop commision theft
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Want To Learn How To Start Blogging?

Dec13
2009
Leave a Comment Written by Keith Nickel

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Blogging is truly a world-changing innovation, with many worldwide bloggers creating companies, revolutionising industries, and using their blogs to promote their work, and with massive success. While the blogosphere can be large, daunting, and occasionally insular, it’s possible to break into the world of blogging and dominate the territory with just a small amount of research and effort. While there are hundreds of ‘experts’ out there that are ready to push you into endless hours of reading and research, the real value in blogging lies in finding the 20% of actions that result for 80% of your blogging outcomes, and focus on them above all else.

With so many different blogging platforms out there, ranging from WordPress to Typepad to Movable Type, it can be incredibly confusing and daunting for beginners who are looking to simply start their blog with the minimum amount of research and micro-testing. The good news is that it’s very possible to dive into a blog on any platform. With the massive amounts of free templates, themes, and blogging plug-ins out there today, the ability to code HTML and CSS isn’t even slightly required in order to become a highly successful blogger. All that you need is the right knowledge, mindset, and strategic plan.

So, how should you get started as a blogger? It’s no surprise that many beginner bloggers end up leaving their blog after just a couple of weeks, as the amount of work associated with many forms of blogging can often result in headaches, stress, and difficulty completing even the most simple blogging task. Fortunately, this free report offers you the ability to bypass all of the frustrating blogging minutiae and skip straight forward into the most valuable and important blogging experience. Let yourself focus on the big picture while this innovative free report explains the small and time consuming tasks for you.

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I know, it can be daunting starting out a new blog. With many people scared to ever put their writing out there, you’re taking a courageous and brave step by showing your writing to the entire world. Don’t go out at half-power. Use the information in this free report to create the best blog you possibly can, and take the blogosphere by storm with your innovative and exciting content. Whether you’re blogging to create an income, to promote your business, or just to get your word out there into the world, this free report can help you get down the right path with your blogging strategy, and save you the trouble of having to master the technicalities of blogging by yourself.

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Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Publishing, Recommendations - Tagged blog basics, Blogging, Blogging Basics, easy blogging, How To Blog, learn how to start blogging, learn to blog, Make money with my blog, monetize my blog
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Why Outsource SEO?

Dec04
2009
Leave a Comment Written by Keith Nickel

Search Engine Optimization, known primarily as SEO, or Search Marketing is one of the most influential, important, and cost effective forms of internet marketing available. With so many internet entrepreneurs, affiliate marketers, and online businesses looking to gain their number one ranking in Google, it’s important to look at SEO objectively, and free of any of the spin that SEO firms love to put on it. At it’s core, SEO is something that can be one anywhere, and by any means, however there are certain styles and strategies that always seem to win out. Whether you’re a big-budget internet marketer or a young upstart looking to shoot your websites up the Google rankings, SEO doesn’t need to be something that you pay someone else to do. By utilising the best strategies and software packages for SEO, you can make the most of one of the most cost effective and important forms of internet marketing, all without the burden of expensive marketing firms.

The most effective method for SEO, in terms of both time and money inputs, is automated and highly customised. By making use of highly flexible software packages and programs, you can cut your SEO needs quite dramatically. The real currency that SEO lives on is it’s low cost relative to results, which is why it’s such a popular and important form of marketing for online entrepreneurs. By making the most of SEO software, you can cut these costs even further, for the ultimate marketing margins.

But how does the software compare to natural SEO? This is a question that comes up increasingly often as our jobs become more and more automated. While machines will never match human ability in terms of creativity and non-logical capacity, when programmed effectively for purely logical work, they can work much more effectively and efficiently than any human. The real value of software comes down to what you put into it, not what you expect out.

With highly customised and refined inputs, your SEO software can be as efficient and effective as a room full of employees. However, this still requires some work on your part inputting the variables and information. It also requires some human interaction when performing many of the tasks, with the software performing primarily as a guide rather than an all-purpose automation tool. These tools help you pick your SEO terms and optimise your campaign; they’re not something that can do your entire job for you.

If you want to cut your SEO costs significantly, both in terms of time costs and financial costs, then SEO tools and software are certainly an important and worthwhile investment. While they don’t cut your time input down to zero, they can effectively sweep away a large portion of your SEO work, and also optimise the work that you end up doing. Instead of spending day after day maximising your SEO campaign, make the most of these innovative tools and allow yourself to cut your time inputs and maximise your results.

To learn more about SEO, check out the free Top 10 Free Webtools report here. http://cbpirate.com/s/webtools/keithfoma

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Posted in Cool Biz, Publishing, Recommendations - Tagged free seo tools, Search Engine Optimization, search marketing, SEO, top 10 web tools, traffic strategies
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Dec03
2009
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Video On Demand From Amazon! Very Cool

Dec03
2009
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