How ClickBank Affiliates Can Minimize Link Theft

Affiliates obviously want to make more with ClickBank and receive all their commissions.

For ClickBank publishers it is important to take this issue seriously also. By taking steps to minimize link theft publishers are likely to gain more affiliates who are eager to promote their product. The major reason for link theft is customers' desire to get affiliate commission as bonus or discount when purchasing any ClickBank product. So, these customers deprive affiliates of their affiliate commission.

It's easy to find out the publisher nickname and then replace the original affiliate nickname with desired nickname inside standard ClickBank hoplink (AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net) and thus deprive the affiliate of their commission, but there are some preventative steps that ClickBank affiliates need to take in order to minimize ClickBank link theft. The main idea of these steps is to try to hide publisher nickname from customers.

One of the key steps is to cloak ClickBank hoplinks.

It's easy way for others to replace your affiliate nickname with their own, because they can determine publisher nickname by hovering over one of your affiliate hoplinks. It is possible to see the target URL revealed in the status bar and/or in the page source unless you have cloaked all Clickbank hoplinks.

Choose Selected Publishers

When looking for products choose publishers who cloak their paylinks, because it is another easy way for customers to get publisher nickname. Unless publisher has cloaked paylinks, it is possible to determine the target URL and potential commission stealers could then substitute the original affiliate nickname with their own.

Also, if the affiliate program is heavily publicized at the point of sale then a potential customer can simply sign up to the affiliate program and use link substitution to purchase the product using his own affiliate nickname. So, it is desirable to reduce affiliate program link visibility for ClickBank publishers, for instance, publisher can make this link less conspicuous.

It is very important not to send traffic to ClickBank publishers that accept other payment processors. If a ClickBank affiliate directs a customer to publisher's site and the customer chooses another payment processor to checkout ClickBank affiliate will not get the commission for this sale.

By implementing these simple tips ClickBank affiliates can ensure that they will receive their Clickbank affiliate commissions.