Affiliate Link Theft
52Today I'm writing about the Internet Marketing phenomenon that I call the Affiliate Link "Sidestep".
Basically it's the process where you have advertised about a product and provided some information and an affiliate link for your list members to click on and hopefully purchase from you.
Now much has been said about the process of people STEALING your sales by hijacking your affiliate link, but this isn't what I'm talking about.
This is about people taking what information you provide and searching for the product site themselves, or another way would be to try and remove your affiliate information and using the main part of the url.
Someone might say that they aren't exactly "stealing" your sale proceeds, but in avoiding the use of your affiliate link to access the site or product, they are taking away from you that sale potential. In my book that's pretty darn close to stealing!
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Diana says:
2 months ago
Hi Tim,
Yet once again my eyes are opened.
The longer I live the more I find out how low people can stoop.
In my terminalogy I would say it is blatant theft.
I hope some of those culprits read it and feel guilty.
Thank you