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Pickpockets are no longer confined to the streets. If your web site is engaged in affiliate programs, some smart Alex might actually be stealing from you. This is a growing concern by those who are dependent on this source of revenue.

Good thing someone came up a program called Affiliate Link Masking Tool, which does exactly what its name implies. Pickpockets can only rob you if they know your affiliate link, and this program denies them that knowledge. Just paste your affiliate link in the tool and specify whatever dummy link you like - this is what the visitors will see in the status bar when they mouse over them, effectively hiding and protecting your real affiliate link. The tool will then generate an HTML code for you to paste back for your banners or text links.

Two things are prevented by this measure. One of them is hijacking. This is when a person discovers your affiliate link, and replaces it with his own affiliate link. Buying a product in this manner, he robs you of your commission and gets himself a discount. Another way that he can hurt you is thru bypassing. In this case, the person simply chops off your affiliate link extension in the address bar and buys from the site as if he stumbled upon it by himself. Thus you lose more money, even though you were responsible for placing that ad on your site so he would know about it.

With these scenarios, you need to be vigilant in ensuring that all those hard-earned dollars actually trickle down to you.

Affiliate Link Masking Tool is compatible with Windows 98 up to Windows XP.

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