When people become more well-informed about how things work the more on the internet many people may remove your affiliate id or simply use another (blank) id or delete their cookies. Regardless of what they do the outcome is you miss out on your commission.

The only option you actually have is to discover a method to hide or cloak your affiliate link to make it difficult to find and remove your affiliate link.

The solution is to cloak your links. Does that stop link deletion or link stealing completely? No, but it can help.

Your choices are to buy a product that cloaks your links and writes the HTMLor Javascript code for you.

Or, You can use a php redirect, create a php file with the following code:
<?php
header("location: http://youraffiliatelink");
?>

But if you are using WordPress, there is a really great plugin that does it really simply by updating the .htaccess file for you

It’s called ILWP Simple Link Cloaker. The fastest way to get it set up is to go to your dashboard->plugins->add new and enter Simple Link Cloaker.in the search box, click search plugins and follow the instructions to install.

You can get more information at the author’s website.

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