If You Dont Know This, You Might Loose Your Commissions!

Are you aware that using certain tools to protect your affiliate commissions might in fact cause you to loose them

Let me explain you how than can be and what you can do to protect yourself from commission loss...

The other day a good marketing friend of mine, lets call her Eva, send me an email, telling me about a service that she believed me to be interested in... and in fact, I was.

She wrote: "If you want to take a look, the link is: http://www.more4you.ws/mon"

When I followed her URL, I noticed on that page, that her affiliate ID was missing on the main page, as well as on the order form page.

Since I wanted her to get credit for this, I emailed Eva:

"Your link will not earn you commissions as your affiliate ID doesnt show at http://www.monopolizer.com/.

I recommend to use a forwarding link instead of placing the site into a frame."

She answered me that it worked fine when she followed the link herself. How was that possible you ask Very simple.

When she originally got the affiliate link, she must have used the link one time directly and this way saved the cookie on her computer.

So I replied to Eva:

"I checked it again... if I visit their site through http://www.more4you.ws/mon, your ID is not shown anywhere.

But if I visit it through http://www.monopolizer.com/index.phpaffiliateID=249040817 I can see your ID everywhere.

In general... cookie based systems often have a problem if you place the site into a HTML frame on another domain."

This time Eva replied to me:

"Well thats got me stumped... I used Covert Affiliate to generate that URL and I just cleared my cookies and tried it and I do not see my affiliate codes on the main page..."

I actually noticed that problem of promoting through a frame already quiet a while ago. Also e.g. when I use Mikes MyViralWebsite system or any other system that displays your affiliate URL inside a HTML frame... its the same problem.

The tricky part about it... some programs work if called through a frame meaning: your affiliate ID will be used and others dont.

My rule of thumb is: If I dont see my affiliate ID on the other page, I will not use a HTML frame.

But for the reason I described before, make sure that you delete you cookies before you give it a try!

This is also the reason why I always use my own Add2it Go-To Pro tracking links whenever I promote another program.

The Add2it Go-To Pro links look e.g. like this:

http://www.add2it.com/go/to.pll=ListDotCom

To make that shorter and easier, I created and uploaded another tiny script called see.pl. Now I can use an even shorter link:

http://add2it.com/see.plListDotCom

The last part, the "ListDotCom", is what changes depending on what program I want to promote.

The advantage... not only do you get stats on how many people click that link every month, it also simply forwards to the URL you want to promote, prevents this way the "frame" problem while still hiding the ugly long affiliate link and this way it REALLY protects your commission.

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