
How to Prevent Fraud and Save Thousands in Affiliate Sales
By Egidijus Andreika
Affiliate marketing can be a fantastic way to promote your products online and earn a lot of money with affiliate's help. However, like in any other form of business, there are some risks of facing fraud involved. Here are the best ways to prevent affiliate marketing scammers from fleecing you of your money.
Stolen credit cards and PayPal accounts
Many affiliate marketers are smart enough to steal customer credit card account information and make it look like they have made a successful sale. This is done so that they can earn commissions from your merchant program wrongfully. You need to install safety measures and anti-hacking systems as well as authentication methods to prevent such occurrences. Make sure your merchant account provider provides you with all the tools to detect and prevent fraud.
Detecting spam mails
One other way to detect malicious affiliate marketers is to find out if they have been sending spam mails to customers. Most amateur marketers will send customers bulk emails hoping to receive more income. However, this can get your company ignored and even blacklisted in the minds of your customers. The best way to stop this is by banning these affiliate marketers from your program. Make sure that your merchant account and affiliate management solution allows you to fully control your affiliates and ban them accordingly.
Black hat sites
Many fraud affiliate marketers will use Black Hat sites to lure unsuspecting customers to purchasing products. The way they do this is by using similar domain names as your parent site and having a small typo in it so that no one suspects it is another site. Customers visit these sites and purchase products, little knowing that their credit card information is being logged and stolen. This can damage your company's reputation massively. Make sure your affiliate program has high quality parameters before you enroll new marketers.
Software like human behavior
There are affiliate marketers who will develop software and scripts, which mimic the actions of users. These scripts will make it seem as if a user has clicked to your merchant site, when in reality it is the software doing it. Make sure your affiliate marketing management system can easily detect such scammers and ban them.
Illegal transactions
Affiliate marketers also use fake identifications and use credit cards stolen from customers to make purchases of your merchant products. This way, they get their commissions and later on also perform a chargeback or refund to get the money back into the account. Customers do not suspect as they receive the money back but you as a merchant end up losing heavily by paying such marketers commissions. Make sure your affiliate marketing system protects you from such cases with built-in tools to protect merchants.
Where affiliates are scammed
There are also instances in which other affiliate marketers set up parasite websites, which hack the hard-working affiliates affiliate links and cookies. In this method, leads that your affiliates have procured are diverted to these parasite sites, where the customer is made to make purchases. Thus the commissions are received by these parasite affiliates instead of your own marketers. Make sure your affiliate marketing system protects honest affiliates and protects from unfair ones.

What is the FASTES way to make affiliate sales?
I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for sometime now and haven’t got the results I want…..
if anyone is successful please give me an HONEST answer….
I already know ALL the basic methods….I want to know the FASTESSSSS way to gain sales
Was in your shoes.
Now I discovered that doing the Affiliate Junktion program which pays for Leads – yes just leads, not sales, changed my situation.
I found it easier to make money with this as most people will not mind giving their email address online. I get paid $2 each time this happens.
Since you already know the basics, you can give the program a re try. Good luck.
How to increase affiliate sales?
Can anyone give me some tips on how to increase my affiliate sales without spending an arm and a leg.
thanks
Keep it simple.
Write quality content, reviewing and rating the product making it look like your website visitor cannot do without it.
This is the only and easy way to get the highest amount of affiliate sales.
Ebook Sales – What affiliate program for my site to sell my ebooks should I choose?
On another answer, someone suggested if you want to sell your own ebook, to get your own domain name, get your own site and get an affiliate program, presumably to sell other ebooks. Which affiliate program would really drive sales? Thanks.
You got three networks to choose from.
1.www.clickbank.com Probably the largest market place for download products like books and software’s.
2.www.click2sell.com It has emerged as an alternative to clickbank in the recent times.
3.www.paydotcom.com is also emerged as an alternative to clickbank on the arena of selling digital products.
Ofcourse, you need to get a domain name, site and a great sales page. If you don’t have a great sales page, regardless of the network you are in, driving sales could be a tough work.
All the best
How to set an auto responder to my affiliate sales page?
I have a GDI website and i just need my auto responder to be able to send out the membership signup information to my new members after they signup.
Affiliate sales Programs beside ClickBank and CJ?
I want to start an affiliate sales site. I have been studying SEO techniques for a while now and I think I’m ready to start marketing. I want to find an affiliate sales program besides commision junction and clickbank. Do you know of any? Any help would be appreciated.