Check out this site thebleeder . com, this affiliate (maninchiba) is using Iframes on just about every clickbank product that there is in the marketplace and the ones he's not, he's just using a regular hoplink. Not only that but he has even downloaded product pages to his site and is calling the images from the vendors pages essentially stealing your bandwidth. While some of you might not be worried about an affiliate downloading and using you images this means there is essentially at least 2 copies of your page on the internet which of course can lead to a duplicate content penalty. I know this because one of my sites which was holding numerous 1st page positions on google for around 18 months have now all disappeared and his site is showing with my old sales page with the same text, so if any of you have good SEO positions in the SE get this ass to remove your stolen page ASAP or you may suffer the same fate.
Hardly promoting as you can see it's not hyperlinked. I posted here because he has probably uploaded other D.P vendors sales pages and is hotlinking their images as well now that they are aware they too can take action, you don't just close your eyes and hope for the best....
It doesnt need to be linked to get promotion... people can/will type in the URL. Have you reported it to click bank? If not then you are closing your eyes and hoping it will go away.
Ahhhh..........[begin sarcasm] no it never occurred for me to report it to clickbank [end sarcasm]....first thing i did They can type it in all they want, how are other vendors on D.P supposed to find out?.......Telepathy?
Well then if its been reported... problem solved.. actions will be taken.. thread pointless.. unsubscribed...
Yeah one vendor reporting on affiliate and clickbank would immediately do something about it......yeah right. However if you have many vendors reporting the problem they are more likely to do something about it. Think about it, glad you unsubscribed as we don't really need more useless advice........
Eventually someone will send in a DMCA complaint to the search engines and when that happens they just may wipe his whole site out... I mean, it's pretty clear that he is cut and pasting entire source codes an publishing them.. If he (or she) is smart, they'll revisit the idea and go back to using the hop links.
Actually I report affiliates all the time for my products. Every single time CB simply stops the affiliates hoplinks from working until the 'problem' is resolved. I don't take this lightly and have had to deal with a mess of aff's and those simply stealing product, hotlinking, re-selling on ebay/other sites, shit there's probably a wack of them right now but if you play it smart and can send a clear message to anyone that cuffs you, you make your other aff's happy and your program stays cleaner (I've even had cases where I recouped money from scammers in malaysia thx to creative writing). One vendor reporting one aff. is enough, if it's not your product it's still wise to report them or tell the vendor who may or may not take action but it's worth a shot. I've seen people get pwned for stealing content, images get swapped into embarrassing content, hotlinks turned to your own aff links, thieves stealing your shite turning into more rev. streams by outsmarting them... If you have the time/desire, you can certainly deal with these parasitic problems and as a vendor you should. N.