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Affiliates lose money everyday because of Clickbank. Affiliate theft and hijacking of links are resulting in affiliates not seeing the profits they earned. It is important to take steps to protect yourself. The policy of Clickbank operates on the “last in” rule. This means that affiliated referred by the buy would get the sale due to the cookie loaded into the buyer’s computer. For example, Amy sends a buyer to a sales page she is linked to. The buyer likes what they see, but waits until the next day to make the purchase. However, he has unknowingly clicked on the link of Tim to the same page. So Tim gets the profits from the sale rather than Amy.
To prevent that from happening to you, control the traffic you send to the link. This is simple enough to do. Create a separate pre sale page that directs traffic to the sales page after a consumer provides their email address. This ensures you will be able to contact them about products.
The hijacking link from Clickbank looks like yournick.blah.hop.clickbank.net. You don’t want to advertise you link in that manner. Consumers will identify it as an affiliate link and often decide not to make a purchase. To prevent this, cloak your affiliate links from yournick.blah.hop.clickbank.net to something like www.yourdomain.com/affiliatelink OR you could go to TinyUrl.com to get a redirect page for free. You can also choose to send consumers to your own pre sell page. This disguises your intent to make money by selling them products.