There are many ways to earn an honest buck using the Internet, while others just try to find the best deals possible. There was a time when people that were surfing the Net were more prone to click on the affiliate links and buy stuff without thinking too much of it. Not it seems that the things are a little bit different, due to the fact that the prices are higher than they were before and some people try to “Hijack” the commissions by replacing the ID of the affiliate links with their ID.
Lets suppose that you have an affiliate link such as www.productdomain . com/?affID, and the hijacker will replace your link with his ID, which is “newID”: www.productdomain . com/?newID. This is how he manages to take the money that is rightfully yours.
There are also cases when the hijacker will replace your ID from the link. The visitors will be redirected to the plain URL and buy the products they find there, without even seeing your ID (it would look like www.productdomain . com). In both cases, you will loose your commission.
Here are few tips that could help any affiliate business to fight back those “hijackers” and prevent them...