Hi, what system do you guys use to prevent affiliate ID theft? I've just joined Commission Junction and Clickbank, and have been accepted by an affiliate which is relevant to my photography site, but want to make sure nobody steals my commission before I get started. I'm ok with HTML, CSS, javascript etc. One other question, this one's more interesting. I've just bought an antique firearm, it's an old percussion gun which is about 200 years old. It's in poor condition and I plan to renovate it, although I've never done this before. I want to monetise the situation if I can and thought about starting a blog about it, maybe posting about each stage of the renovation, with some gun or antique related ads on it and maybe some adsense. By the way, I've just placed an article with an affiliate publishing company, got the idea from somebody on this forum, thanks whoever you are.
There isn't really a good way to hide it 100%, but you can use mod_rewrite to hide the links.. like this: http://affiliatename.com/index.php?affiliateid=34656 -> http://yourdomain/affiliatename You use mod_rewrite for this