Comments on: Guard Your Affiliate Data

By: noooby

noooby — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:18:07 +0000

Thanks, nice read. I am so glad I came accross this article, I wouldn’t have thought about hiding but it make perfect sense.

By: PPC4me

PPC4me — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:17:52 +0000

It’s a dog eat dog world, sometimes, as Cakes posted. I get so tired of hearing people say, “oh you are paranoid” or “why don’t you trust the network with your keywords?”

NickyCakes is being brutally honest people, so listen up and guard your shit.

By: Esteban Panzera

Esteban Panzera — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:45:32 +0000

I can’t believe you actually wrote this post, three days ago I was thinking why nobody wrote a post about this, lol.

By: xlspecial

xlspecial — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:35:06 +0000

You should be able to block myipneighbors and other such things in your servers firewall.

By: nickycakes

nickycakes — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:35:40 +0000

i do a lot of direct to offer stuff so it doesn’t hurt me too much. for the sites i do run, most of it is run from a central database so there isn’t much to keep track of.

By: alexa7

alexa7 — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:26:35 +0000

Thanks, cakes. That helps me rethink my long-term strategy as far as where everything is hosted.

A good post would be on how you keep track of where everything is and all the blogs and their ‘owners’ data, user emails, passwords, and IPs and all that stuff. My spreadsheeets get pretty overwhelming. How do you simplify things?

By: monkeysuncle

monkeysuncle — Sun, 18 May 2008 02:39:20 +0000

Excellent post Nicky, this is why I push my own product and not the products of others. Afraid that they will steal my data.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 18 May 2008 02:27:23 +0000

There are some networks and some affiliate managers worse than others as well.

Won’t get into that – but if you get a bad vibe from your aff manager – ask for a new one.

You should be able to work with them IF you want – usually all I’m concerned about is getting my payment upped or something for me. I’m already giving them profit – so they aren’t getting much else.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:49:23 +0000

Surprising as it may be, Shoemoney actually had a decent explanation of the different types of redirects and masks that you can do with a little bit of PHP and Javascript. Good for the newbies that are wondering how to setup meta redirects and whatnot.

http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/02/12/guide-to-link-cloaking-masking-and-url-redirection/

By: Wyndell

Wyndell — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:31:33 +0000

Hi Nicky,

This is very informative post. Yeah, I read about slightlyshady. It got a bunch of experiments on how to hide the referer data.

Keep it up.