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Experienced
Affiliate Marketers.
Are
you commissions being stolen?
A
relatively new problem affiliates are facing is called parasite
theft (Parasiteware). Here is what it is:
A
technology (including, but not restricted to, browser helpers,
browser plug-ins, toolbars and pop ups/sliders) that knowingly
or unknowingly undermines or removes another affiliate's ability
to compete by changing, intercepting or redirecting an affiliate
link. Parasiteware™ may be installed knowingly or unknowingly
by the end user, altering their normal web browser functions and/or
installing a third party application that works through the user's
altered browser.
That means when your affiliate sends customers
to your site, the parasiteware will replace
the affiliate's links with their own (morpheus), or pop up coupons
promising discounts (ebates).
This way, the commission goes to the parasite
and not the affiliate who sent the customer to you.
To you, all you see is a superaffiliate. With
time, you see more and more smaller affiliates
dropping out of your program.
Less and less traffic coming to your site.
Sales of your parasitic superaffiliates fall. (They don't motivate
customers to go to your site to buy from you. They just hijack
the traffic that would have gone to you in the first place.)
And you wonder what hit you.
You see, when your regular customers who arrive
at your site with such software, the parasite would remind the
customer to click on their code, so they get a commission. By
right, they should not be getting any commissions as these are
your regular customers who came to your site through your efforts.
Think about it.
For more information about affiliate hijacking
and parasiteware, click
here.
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