I recently started getting back into PPV stuff. One issue I faced in the past and never resolved, was the problem of affs targeting your LPs, offers, or tracking links.
I would normally swap my domains every couple of weeks, but now I'm wondering how to protect my offer. For instance everybody targets freescore360 w freescore360 even though this is clearly against terms. I sacrifice a significant amount of roi if 25-50% of my clickers are being siphoned off by the re-pop.
So the quesion is: If you can't control the domain being used, is there a way to protect it from being targeted? Would I be able to use an iframe to prevent the web address from hitting the toolbar query? I've seen some people use sessions, but again I'm not too familiar with these types of methods.
Any advice from the code gurus here?
I would suggest Iframes or AJAX. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...e-to-an-iframe
IMO, easiest way would be to post a job for a coder on e.g. oDesk/Elance where you want them to design an AJAX loader that loads a full page sized div on top of all your pages content when someone clicks a link. In that way you wouldn't leave your page, the offer would be displayed on top of it. I however have no idea what issues may arise with the redirects and all that the affiliate links hop through. I'm sure this would be a bread-and-butter thing for an experienced AJAX coder.
i think you can do some css magic / tricks to hide the elements but still make it appear for the user.. its quite a bit of work to implement on all my landers so i never got really into it..
I would tell you that LI pop is a sandboxed version of a browser.....so any trickery you try to attempt while the page is loading may/maynot function....they block alot of js...and are blocking more and more all the time....so I would tell you not to waste time or money trying to build something out...cuz in the end it may not work....
its just best to setup a camp with your domain and the variations of it to watch to see if anyone is bidding on you.....
Out of curiousity, since I haven't yet had this issue yet (small time), do these aff's bid on the domain that your tracking is on, or the domain where your landing page content is?
I only ask because it seems like it would be a huge pain to continually change the location of your tracker/CPVLab/whatever-you-use, but obviously moving around your LP's would be a lot less annoying. The main reason why I ask is because I'd rather come up with a streamlined way of doing this in advance to having a problem.
more than likely they bid on your tracker as it gets more traffic. but they can also bid on your landers, nothing stopping from someone on bidding on both.
i've had people bid on my tracking link which was a bit of a pain in the ass. If you're using CPVLab, you can use different domains that are pointed to the root. The really annoying thing you have to do is log into CPVLab w that domain and re-save the campaign for it to all work. There was a time when I had to log in with a couple different domains to the same tracker just to manage all my shit. If i forgot i was on a certain domain and accidentally changed a diff campaign that I have coded to a different domain, then it would fuck eveyrthing up.
i remember when ppl would bid on base2.php or gtoffers. basically, anything is up for grabs when bidding.. i've seen them start to deny some stuff though.
If anyone has detailed knowledge on how the popbars work there is a possible streamlined solution. I believe it checks the address bar and site tags for kws? I've also had iframed pages trigger pops though too, so there's probably something behind the scenes I don't know about.
I kind of figured that would be the case, unfortunately.
I'm sure there would be a fairly streamlined or semi-automated way to deal with the issue. Obviously it's impossible to totally prevent other than moving your tracker around a bunch.