Most affiliate marketers promote other vendor’s products and in return the vendor gives these affiliate marketers a commission. This commission usually ranges anywhere between 30%-75% (50% being the normal) although have seen commissions as high as 95%!

So here’s the situation. When a person, looking for some product,  lands on an affiliate’s page that is promoting that particular product, the affiliate will ultimately provide a link to the vendor’s page. Included in the link will be the affiliate’s id. This is how the vendor knows who sent the customer to their site and then pays the affiliate the commission. Since the affiliate’s id is visible in the link there are a number of things the affiliate is exposed to.

• The affiliate is may become a victim of link theft.
• Some smart customers may hate affiliates since they will make a commission and avoid clicking the link.
• As an affiliate there are many tools available that can be used to spy on your affiliate business model once your competitor affiliate marketer gets hold
  of your affiliate id.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. So what can we do as an affiliate marketer? Well we can use the Invisible Pop
. Here’s a free version Invisible Popup Generator

The invisible popup is a small piece of encrypted JavaScript code that places a cookie on the visitor’s computer when the user browses to the page. This is extremely powerful because the process is completely transparent to the user and you can provide a real link to the vendor’s site. Even if the user never clicks onwards to the vendor’s site, that cookie will be on the user’s computer the next time he visits the vendor’s site from elsewhere.