Hats

Jambhala Rinpo asked:


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.



HANS

George Key asked:


“White hat” doorway – is it possible? Of course.

But at first few words abut usual way of getting visitors to your site.

To get a person to go to a site than others, it needs to be very visible in Search Engines. Providing ads that could direct potential consumers and costumers to their site would allow them to have an increase in traffic as well as sales. Google, Yahoo and some other SE provides a service that can put a site or company’s ad in their sites that can be shown when certain keywords are inputted.

Google AdWords was the first one and many internet marketers use this technology to get customers to their sites. Yahoo utilizes the same principle as Google’s Adwords. In fact, they are very similar to each other that they use keyword and keyword phrase searches and to determine which ads to show per search. When a person types in a keyword or keyword phrase to search for anything, the search engines gives out the results in a page. Then at the right side of the page, you will see selected ads that have paid for their ads to be viewed with certain keywords and keyword phrases searched.

But there is one problem here – all these services are a paid advertising in fact. So the more you pay the more visitors you have.

But in many cases your payment for such type of advertising will be ineffective because of great competition between keywords and phrases. So one of the smart decision is to explore best keywords with additional tools. And if you purchase even the best software – such as Brad Callen’s Keyword Elite for example – you still have to compete with other users of this software.

Is there something else? Of course! For example a well known doorways – a special websites with pages content optimized to only one keyword and redirection to the target site. But unfortunately this technology is prohibited by the main Search Engines.

Its so called “Black hat” decisions.

But if you turn on your brains you can easily look to this problem from unusual side and invent your own doorway using only “White hat” steps.

For example I can name only part of such “white hat doorways”.

First of all its your own blog at the Blogger.com. If you’ll post there your messages constantly for a period of several weeks Google will be glad to index your blog and Googlebot will follow all links that you’ll put there.

Second is your participation in the Yahoo Groups. You can daily post your messages into the great deal of targeted groups with your links to your sales pages. In a week or two your site will be indexed with Yahoo and Yahoobot will follow all links in your messages too.

The third is publishing a free articles from the same area of business (or knowledge) directly into your site and/or into your blog and Yahoo groups pages.

Only these three simple steps will strongly increase popularity of you site and its pagerank.

And if you’ll decide to make these steps for a few month you’ll be surprised how many visitors will find your site with this “White hat” doorway technology.

Enjoy it!



BRUNO