YOUR OWN FAULT! Actually that would be 75% of your money, because link-hijacking accounts for 300% loss of commissions, you could only be earning one-fourth of what you COULD be earning from online affiliate sales:
Let's take a look:
Here's the current top selling Clickbank item:
FARMVILLE SECRETS! You earn 75% on this, $17.98 per sale after the Clickbank deduction.
http://jay1022.farmville.hop.clickbank.net
If someone saw your raw link somewhere such as on Facebook or Twitter, or even that link here, right now, they could easily remove your ID jay1022 and put theirs in, without ever going to Clickbank to get the link, without putting in any effort in finding out the details of the product. Then they would start plastering ads all over, while you did the preliminary work of looking for the top-selling 75% commission item.
That quick link-hijacking is costing you money, $17.98 on each sale of Farmville Secrets, and that's only from not cloaking 1 link! Especially if the person who just "stole" your link advertises a lot more than you do, and IF THEY CLOAK THEIR LINK, they could easily rake in a ton more money than you do, thanks to you helping them by using a raw link!
Clickbank can provide you with cloaking, they call it a HopShield link, but look how big this is:
http://0c5c47mu2yitbu65ojvqwhu38t.hop.clickbank.net/
If you're posting to places that only let you enter a very small amount of text, such as Twitter that only lets you post 140 characters, you don't want that HopShield link hogging up HALF your ad space!
Now you have 2 reasons to use Viral URL, cloaking AND to make your links shorter. You could make yours even shorter than mine if you create a folder name with less than six characters (my Viral URL folder name is lmagic) then make your keyword 1 character to keep the link very short, either a letter or number (my keyword is 5) if you're cloaking tons of links, you'll have to start using 2 character keywords eventually.
http://vur.me/lmagic/5
That's only half the size of the original raw link, and less than half the size of the HopShield link!
http://vur.me/lmagic/5
http://jay1022.farmville.hop.clickbank.net
http://0c5c47mu2yitbu65ojvqwhu38t.hop.clickbank.net/
MORE GREAT REASONS to use VIRAL URL:
* You can effortlessly gain signups to Viral URL from the links at the top left & right
http://vur.me/lmagic/5
* Your can enter a link into Viral URL that will be displayed on your downliners sites, in the center
* You get tracking on the top 10 sites that send traffic to your Viral Bar Link (the one at top center of your downliners cloaked sites)
* You can enter a banner that will be displayed in the members area of Viral URL
* You get ad credits when other peoples links are displayed on your cloaked sites, and when your link is displayed on your downliners cloaked sites
* You get ad credits when other peoples banners are displayed in your members area at Viral URL, and when your banner is displayed in other peoples members areas
* You can email your downliners every 3 days, thru 5 levels
* You can earn up to $78.80 if your free referrals in Viral URL upgrade to yearly Gold membership
JOIN VIRAL URL and you can cloak UNLIMITED LINKS...cloak ALL your affiliate links, don't let hijackers remove your ID and put in theirs, prevent losing as much as 300% of your potential affiliate income!
http://vur.me/lmagic
P.S. If you're a free member, you can get 50 cents per each free referral you bring in until this Friday, Feb. 19th, and earn up to $78.80 per sale if they upgrade to yearly Gold!
http://vur.me/lmagic