Being into affiliate marketing and selling different products is something every person who is trying to earn money online is doing. If you are one, you would be always having some doubts on the sales that you generate from the affiliate programs that you work for. Every affiliate program will have an affiliate link with some parameters with links which could be mostly your affiliate ID. Most of the affiliate programs does not support direct linking or provide SEF URL’s. Its very easy for a visitor who are aware of affiliate marketing to detect an affiliate link (PAP 4 has that feature).
Some Unfortunate Possibilities
For example someone comes to your blog and see a banner of a WordPress theme, could get the URL of the site by just hovering on the banner or the link. He could go the website without clicking on your affiliate link and instead, he gets into the site directly without using the affiliate parameters. He could sign-up as an affiliate before he does the purchase and get the affiliate earnings that you deserved. This is done very commonly, but you should know that there are solutions for this. You can cloak the URL or create URL’s which direct to the affiliate website protecting your earnings.
How to do that?
You have an excellent plugin for WordPress called MaxBlogPress which takes care of all your problems. This plugin is a tested and proven one and I am using this for more than 2 years now.
What does this plugin do?
- You can create clear URL’s related to your own domain
- Add keywords to the links which will scan through your blog posts and comments and generate links automatically. Suppose your create a link which you add keywords like Adsense, PPC, Get paid to click, etc, then when ever your post has such keywords, those keywords will be converted to links automatically.
- You can find out which links are generating clicks and some more reports.
- You can decide if you need to add rel=nofollow tag and if the page should open in a new window.
- Set the style of the link
Its time to go for your protection and claim your deserved earnings.
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Kishore Asokan is the author of this blog and has been blogging since 1999.
He is a software professional from Carnegie Technology of Education, Pittsburgh, USA. He works on
.NET, PHP, AJAX, etc. He has been making money online for the past 10 years and is still learning
to monetize his skills. He has recently launched his 
