Affiliate Commission Theft Can Be A Serious Problem, But There Are Some Things You Can Do About It.

Affiliate commission theft can be a serious problem, but there are some things you can do about it. Why is commission theft such a serious problem? For one thing, when affiliate marketers see links that they recognize, they are more likely give themselves a discount. This is especially true for Clickbank products. Clickbank also puts special requirements on the affiliate before they can get paid, adding more pressure to “cheat” the system to speed the process of getting that first paycheck. Here is a brief statement of Clickbank’s payment requirements.

“In compliance with US law, ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until it contains standing sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers, including at least one Visa card, and one MasterCard. PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum.”

You can view the rules for yourself at: https://www.clickbank.com/accounting.html

If taken literally, this means that if a person makes 10 or a thousand PayPal only sales, they will not receive a paycheck from Clickbank. They must make FIVE sales with different account numbers and they must have a Visa and a MasterCard purchase.

So, what are some affiliates doing? They are getting their girl friends, boy friends, wives, husbands and grandmas to use their affiliate links when buying products.

This is something that puzzled me for quite a long time until I figured out why my stats said that my conversion rates were high, but I didn’t get the sale. Quite simply, “Some affiliates don’t want to wait very long to get their affiliate checks in the mail.”

I have visited several free and even paid internet marketing forums where I see people exclaiming joy about their first sale as an affiliate. They are naïve to think that one sale equals one commission check. If they have not put together a good business model with backend sales and are building a list of repeat customers, their sales will be few and far in between. They are absolutely floored when they see the Customer Distribution Requirement (CDR) notice next to their account telling them that they need to make more sales to get their first check.

In my own opinion, because of this reason, Clickbank products are impossible to sell to other Clickbank affiliates. It is much easier to sell “outside” of the make-money-online market. It’s much easier to sell weightloss, acne control, fitness, and dog training to people who have never heard of Clickbank. or affiliate marketing.

But, if you are selling Clickbank products to non-Clickbank savvy folks, you still have the problem of people not wanting to click on those long, nasty-looking affiliate links. That’s why it is always important to cloak your affiliate links. But, be cautioned that you cannot have cloaked links or re-directs in your Google adwords campaigns. Google does not allow either pop-ups or redirects. As a matter of fact, Google will not accept your website for Adsense if you are serving pop-ups. You must use “inline” scripts to get optins to your mail list if you are to associate with Google.

If you are interested in selling to other than the make-money-online crowd, I am happy to provide you with an absolutely free cloak script with a built-in redirect. At: FreeAffliateCloaker.com.  As I said, this script, because it is a redirect, can not be used with adwords campaigns. Also, some affiliate publishers like Commission Junction, do not allow redirects. Please read your terms of service “before” you sign-up with an affiliate publisher.

Kelly Marion is an experienced internet marketer and has been marketing various products full time for the last five years. You can get your free cloaker with redirect script from: http://www.freeaffiliatecloaker.com