This is kinda of in topic ....
Heres the app mentioned in story below
http://www.smithfam.com/dascii.exeYou may be losing 20% or more of your total affiliate commissions and you
have no way of knowing how much you are actually losing. Today I'll show
you how you can easily stop these losses by cloaking your affiliate URLs.
In my case one...You may be losing 20% or more of your total affiliate
commissions and you have no way of knowing how much you are actually
losing. Today I'll show you how you can easily stop these losses by
cloaking your affiliate URLs. In my case one single change boosted my
affiliate sales income about 23%.
Commission theft happens most often today when your customers install
programs with hidden applications that are secretly bundled inside other
software you usually downloaded free on the Internet.
Many of these programs search for common affiliate URLs or domain
names on your website, when they find an affiliate ID they replace your
ID or URL for another. Your customer buys assuming you are getting the
commission short-circuiting the sale and redirecting your commission to
someone else.
This can also happen when someone substitutes another affiliate ID for
yours in order to redirect your sales commission after you did all the work.
Why Use URL Cloaking
Cloaking your URLs and email addresses will accomplish two things for
you. First it will make it nearly impossible for most scumware programs
and humans to redirect or even to read your affiliate links on your web
pages, and second it will make all affiliate links appear as if the pages
are actually located on your own website.
URL Cloaking 101
The easiest way to cloak affiliate URLs and email addresses that appear
on your pages is to convert them into ASCII text decimal code so that
most humans and software can't read them while your browser still will
read them correctly.
I use a simple program that converts ASCII text to decimal code. You
enter in a URL or email address and it outputs a cloaked version that is
safer to use on your webpages.
Download dascii.exe Free
http://www.smithfam.comdascii.exeMaking Hidden Redirect Pages
A Hidden Redirect page is simply a normal HTML page that sends your
customer to your affiliate page; this one has a special twist. This
technique also blocks smart tags and uses a hidden frame to load your
affiliate page so it appears that the affiliate page resides on your own
website.
Don't worry I won't make this too complex, I'll give you some simple
code you can paste into empty page using in any text editor (like notepad),
save to a file and upload it to your server.
Here Is How To Set It Up
FIRST: Use the ASCII to decimal program you downloaded above to cloak
your Affiliate URL. Keep the program open you will need the decimal
version of your affiliate URL again in step two.
SECOND: Create a new page in any simple text editor (notepad works
fine).
In order to make your page appear blank to humans paste the following
code at the very top line of your page. Don't worry it won't show up on
your page.
<!-- Sorry This Page Is Not Visible -->
Next from the top of the page hit return about 50 times, this will put you
well down on the page so when you paste the following code on your
page it will not be visible to anyone looking at the source code of your
page.
Replace ( XXXXXX ) below with the cloaked URL for your affiliate program.
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<html><title></title><meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing"
content="true"><meta name="robots"
content="noindex"></head><frameset border=0 rows="100%,*"
frameborder="no" margintop=0 marginleft=0 marginright=0 marginbottom=0><frame SRC="XXXXXX" scrolling=auto frameborder="no" border=0 noresize><frame topmargin="0"
marginwidth=0 scrolling=no marginheight=0 frameborder="no"
border=0 noresize> <body></body></frameset></html>
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Save your file with .htm, html last name for example "myoppurl.html"
and upload it to your server where your other pages are stored. See
the URL below for an example from my website. If you view the source
of the page and scroll down you can see the actual source code like our
example.
http://www.smithfam.com/ts.htmlNow, whenever anyone clicks on the URL your affiliate link will take the
visitor to your affiliate page but they will see your web page URL in the
browser's address window.
You can use the redirect page URL as you would any link in your email
and on your website. It is not 100% tamperproof but it should reduce
your affiliate commission theft at least 95%.
ROBERT SMITH helps thousands successfully market their Internet based
home business. You'll find tons of free marketing tools & resources on his
Internet Marketing web site at: <http://www.smithfam.com/>.
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