Covert Link stops Zango Advertisers from stealing Click Bank Affiliate commissions, as well as all other affiliate networks. I recently posted a report on this at The Warriors Forum.
Re: Covert Link, this is a version of what I proposed would fix the problem. And guess what? It doesn’t use Click Bank for processing sales, but uses PayPal. Not that this is the best by far, but it lets you know to use other outlets when you are selling someday your own products.
But after a couple more hours looking at this solution it does the same thing as I mentioned with regards to having the merchant’s page hosted on your website. Except I like Covert Links better. It is solved using a php “get” request to pull the page to of the merchant to your website as a pre-determined web page url hidden in the script.
But Covert Link goes one more step by resetting the cookies with the correct affiliate link and removing the merchant’s web page headers, so the Zango script does not even become activated. This includes the meta tags of description and keywords.
Therefore Zango does not see any keywords or url destination page that matches. I have found two users of this and they have a significant gain in their commissions due to using Covert Links. Here’s a quote from their page that illustrates what the script does.
“The PHP Version uses an Advanced system to “pull” the Merchants Web Page content and host it on your web page without using any frames. The PHP Version also provides additional security in that it blocks any HTTP Headers from the Merchant’s site so the Parasite Software parsing HTTP Headers can’t do so.”
However, after this morning I tried to move around on the website and it took over five minutes to get back to the order page. This means they are hosted on a machine not capable of handling the number of requests. The product costs $30 and ends your problem. I bought it just now and upgrades to any new threats are free.
A further quote “CovertLinks hides, or cloaks, the Merchant’s site on your domain/web site. This keeps any Parasite Software from knowing that a product it’s affiliated with is being shown to the web surfer, keeping your hard earned Commission in your pocket.”
There are demo pages you can take a look at on the site and it does what it says. The premise is Covert Links has prevented the Zango tool bar from being alerted so no pop up occurs and the cookies are verified to be set with your own affiliate ID.
This is why I like their solution. They have one for MAC computers, and also if you only have html access. The html version of the script encrypts all the web page’s source code, so no Zango tool bar will alert Zango because there are no keywords present.
I saw an actual affiliate use this just three days ago with a Google PPC Ad campaign. When I clicked on the sales page, I noticed it is hosted on the affiliates website as is the order page. I took a look at the source code of the webpage and I saw what a fully encrypted web page looks like. It’s very effective.
I also found out where you can do this for free. You could easily try this and then see if when you order the merchant’s product you are affiliated with, if the affiliate ID is yours at the bottom of the Click Bank Order Page.
I have also written Perry Wolf the creator of Covert Links to get more information about it’s use on stopping Zango. This product saves you the hassle of having to create a entirely new sales page for every affiliate product.
This should solve this problem of this and about 125 other parasite programs listed at the Covert Links Website. So it’s affiliate business as usual.
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