| While good affiliates can make you money | | | | legitimate affiliates by replacing their |
| there are some that can cost you a lot so | | | | links with new ones. The result is that the |
| beware of affiliate theft and fraud that are | | | | legitimate affiliates do not get their fees |
| increasing day by day. Merchants more then | | | | for their work and they keep on going with |
| ever need to monitor the actions of their | | | | their work and when they come to know about |
| affiliates to defend themselves against fraud | | | | it they had already made a hair tearing loss! |
| and prevent them from stealing your income. | | | | Fraudulent and Fake Transactions are |
| As long as you do your online business you to | | | | performed by the online fraudsters by signing |
| need to be cautious to save your hard earned | | | | up as affiliates making large purchases |
| money. | | | | employing a stolen credit card or may opt for |
| | | | creating scripts to generate phony clicks, |
| You must be aware of what type of frauds your | | | | leads, or transactions. |
| affiliates may be capable of and then | | | | |
| determine what type of preventive measure | | | | Typo squatting is another way against which |
| could be taken to arm yourself. You need to | | | | you should keep yourself well armed. It is |
| perform careful screening of all your | | | | also known as URL hijacking. Person involved |
| affiliates because you may have hundreds or | | | | in such illegal job are called Typo squatters |
| even thousands of people signing up for your | | | | who manipulates the URL the website address |
| affiliate program and all they could not be | | | | of affiliate program. They register several |
| honest and serious. There may be frivolous | | | | variations of a high traffic domain names and |
| hobbyists, spammers and sophisticated con | | | | then sign up for that same merchants |
| artists which require to be weeded so that | | | | affiliate program to sell them which brings |
| you are left with serious marketers to work | | | | them the revenue which is rightly the |
| with. | | | | earnings of the owner of the affiliate |
| | | | programs. |
| The different types of frauds your affiliates | | | | |
| may be capable of are Spammers, Malware, | | | | Once you are aware of the types of frauds and |
| Fraudulent and Fake Transactions and Typo | | | | armed with certain screening tips like |
| squatting. Spammers are those affiliates who | | | | checking out for anyone inactive website of |
| involve themselves sending unsolicited | | | | the affiliates that mark them as spammers, |
| e-mails featuring a net marketer's product | | | | the optimized content that must relate to |
| and also create difficult situations for the | | | | your products and services and the measure of |
| legitimate e-mailers to separate themselves. | | | | loyalty to follow the policies surrounding |
| Some affiliates even use adware specifically | | | | the use of content from your site you are |
| designed that is unknowingly installed on a | | | | sure to safe from being cheated. |
| person's computer to steal traffic from | | | | |