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Article Title: Black Hat Affiliate Marketing - Legal? Yes.
Ethical? Hmmm...
Author: Jambhala Rinpo
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There seem to be numerous methods that affiliate marketers use
to earn their commissions these days. Adding affiliate links to
websites, emails, instant messengers, articles, e-books,
pay-per-click ads, banners, and any other form of media are all
popular affiliate marketing strategies. Success comes to them
when people click those links, get tracked by a cookie uploaded
to their computer and then make a purchase from the affiliate
program�s website. Then the affiliate gets a check in the mail
for all the commissions earned.
Recently though, there have been some new affiliate marketing
tactics that are creating a bit of a stir in the affiliate
marketing communities. It seems that an elite group of
marketers are using some questionable methods to increase their
commissions that have been labeled as �black hat� affiliate
marketing tactics. So who are these elite, and what are their
black hat tactics?
The elite group of black hatters is headed by a sly programmer
named John Reel. He�s created a program that cloaks affiliate
links like no other link cloaker you�ve ever seen before.
That�s right; this one does a few things differently.
- One of the black hat features is that it will create framed
links. This means that the link you see in the address bar will
not be for the actual website you land on by clicking it. Also,
the title bar in your browser will say whatever message the
black hatter affiliate wants you to see.
- Another one of the more powerful features of this black hat
affiliate tool is the ability to embed affiliate cookies into
your links. This allows the affiliate marketer to load their
affiliate cookie onto your computer before you even land on the
destination URL, and therefore there is no need to use the
affiliate code tagged onto the end of the URL. It will appear
as though the link is not an affiliate link at all, and yet the
black hatter will still secretly earn the commission.
- Taken a step further, this cookie embedding process can also
allow the black hat affiliate to embed multiple affiliate
cookies into their link for the affiliate program that they�re
promoting as well as any competitors cookies. This way, if the
customer doesn�t buy from the site you send them to and then
later ends up on a competitors� site, the black hat affiliate
still earns the commission.
- Now taking this feature another step further, this black hat
affiliate tool can secretly hide rotating affiliate cookies
embedded within a webpage. This sneaky tactic allows for cookie
after cookie to be added for numerous affiliate programs that
are all tracked to the black hat affiliate.
- Going even further upon this feature is the ability to embed
any link with multiple rotating affiliate cookies. Again this
can load your computer with affiliate cookies for any and all
affiliate programs that the black hat affiliate desires to earn
commissions from. What�s more, is that this sneaky black hat
affiliate link will innocently look like any other link, and
can be published anywhere without anyone knowing what it�s
capable of when clicked!
Sounds like the invention of a mad scientist trying to take
over the affiliate marketing world through the exploitation of
ingenious black hat programming loopholes.
So are these black hat affiliate tactics legal? Yes, if the
affiliate program doesn�t specify otherwise within their terms
of service.
Are these black hat affiliate tactics ethical? That all depends
on your personal code of ethics, and whether you would use the
tools ethically, or whether you would use them in every way
possible to earn as many commissions as you can with no respect
for your customers.
Do you want this black hat toolkit? Forget it! There are only
1,500 available, and by the time you read this they�ll probably
already be gone. After that, John Reel will be parading as an
angel, selling his white hat tools, but don�t be fooled by this
wolf in sheep�s clothing.
About The Author: Jambhala Rinpo is a viral affiliate marketer
and joint venture broker.
http://www.AffiliateSuperNetwork.com/blackhatwhite - Black hat
tools or white hat tools, and free affiliate link cloaking
tools.
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