Hey everyone…

I’ve had kind of a rough day today, and I’m really tired. Not your problem, right? No, it’s not, and in my effort to produce solid content for you every day, I’m going to rely on something some good friends of mine wrote about their new product. Here’s the skinny:

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We’ve all had bad days as marketers, but some are much worse than others. While bad luck happens and poor sales days aren’t uncommon, sometimes something much more sinister is at play. There are hackers and script-running marketers out there to steal your affiliate commissions, and it could be costing you thousands of dollars, every year. These unethical marketers operate through spyware and secret ad programs, which automatically convert affiliate links into their own, stealing your commissions and earning them cash.

It’s highly unethical, and it gives real marketers a bad name. While you put in the hard work creating landing pages, mastering PPC campaigns, and building dedicated SEO resources, these leeches are out there coding their bots, ready to steal your hard work and turn it into their own conversions. While affiliate networks fight against this sort of behavior, there’s little that they can do. After all, the traffic looks the same, and the sales are genuine. It’s just the method that’s horribly unethical.

Of course, there are two ways to deal with the problem. The first is to get mad about the situation and try to fight the leeches head on. You can report them, follow them, and tell other affiliates about them. While it certainly makes things more difficult for them, it’s not a solution that’s going to bring you any more sales. Hackers are sharp, and always looking for a new solution. When you call them out, they simply run away and build a better bot.

The second solution is to actively prevent yourself from becoming a victim. Rather than giving away your affiliate code in your links, you should cloak it, and disguise it from buyers and potential thieves. Using simple tracking software, you can keep the unethical marketers away from your personal information, and keep your commissions to yourself. No worrying about unethical conduct, no cookie theft, and no lost commissions.

Click Here To Download Your Free Cloak & Dagger Affiliate Secrets

This free report has been particularly helpful to affiliates, especially those that have been actively hit by fraudulent marketers in the past. Protecting your traffic can be a proactive battle, but when you bring automated tools into the fight it becomes much more simple. With the strategies and recommendations in this report, your affiliate links will be protected, obscured, and completely untouchable.

Click Here To Download Your Free Cloak & Dagger Affiliate Secrets

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I have known Soren Jordanson for a long time, virtually. He’s a very smart marketer and a really good guy. I know his partner Cindy Battye, also very smart and very dedicated to making good products, as is their other partner, John Merrick. I’ve never met John, but he’s also from a place I spent a lot of time at in my early online career — Net Marketing Forum.  It’s Jon Olson’s site, and Jon is an awesome guy. Really, I doubt that anyone realizes how many of the well-known marketing experts of today came up through Jon’s forum and his weekly newsletter, which I wrote for for a while.  I can’t tell you how grateful I am to all the folks over at NMF, and these are quality, hard-working people who are always willing and eager to help new marketers out.

Anyway, where am I going with this? Check out the report, if you’re smart. It’s awesome, as are the people who created it. I doubt that many of you are aware of the whole commissions theft issue, and if you’re concerned, there are no better folks to help you to solve that problem. I’ve used a software similar to what the Phantom Link Cloaker people are offering for years, and I know it’s been really good for me.

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