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AffiliateMask V1.01
AffiliateMasks tracks affiliate traffic to your web site using cookies or HTTP headers to store IDs instead of a URL.
You've set up shop on the Internet and you're ready to sell your products. There's just one catch-you need to get people to visit your web site so they can buy your products! So, you start an affiliate program that helps get the word out about your site by giving web masters an incentive for driving hits to your site. But, now your affiliate program is creating another problem-your affiliate is spamming people, you're taking the heat for the spam, and your affiliate is getting undeserved credit for the hits.
AffiliateMask helps you set up an affiliate program that is safer and more secure than ever before. Most affiliate programs use an affiliate ID, which is added to the end of a URL and might look something like this: http://www.sample.com/item/index.php?affiliateid=123456. When a customer visits that page by clicking on a link supplied by your affiliate, credit is stored for your affiliate. But, if your affiliates have access to the ID number, they can use it to create spam e-mails that will give them undue credit.
Here's where AffiliateMask comes in. You see, AffiliateMask hides the affiliate ID making it impossible for affiliates to get credit for hits to your site gained through e-mail. Instead, your affiliate gets credit only for legitimate hits made by referring visitors through the affiliate's web site.
In addition to protecting your reputation, AffiliateMask gives your affiliates who make legitimate referrals some protection. In some cases, users who see an affiliate ID in their web browser URL may remove it, which prevents your affiliate from getting credit for purchases made through the affiliate's link. With AffiliateMask, users don't see the ID, so they can't remove it.
AffiliateMask is an Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) filter for Internet Information Server (IIS) that tracks affiliate referrals to your web site. AffiliateMask hides the affiliate ID from users and does away with affiliate IDs appended to URLs.
AffiliateMask masks or hides the affiliate ID by setting a cookie in the browser of a web visitor referred by an affiliate's web site. This set up makes both parties of the affiliate program happy; the affiliate gets credit for the traffic his or her site drove to your web site and you have an affiliate program that is more secure and is transparent to web visitors. And the best part is that you get visitors to your web site where they can buy your products and put money in your pocket!
AffilaiteMask was created in conjunction with MerchantZoo.com in order to track affiliate traffic to your web site using cookies or HTTP headers to store IDs instead of a URL. These enables webmasters a much more safe and secure way to market there goods and services without the hassles associated with current affilaite programs.
Recently, it has been discussed that the major search engines, particularly Yahoo.com, are considering penalizing affilaite sites. AffilaiteMask makes it impossible for the search engines to recognize affilaite sites by disguising the link as a ordinary link with no extra code attached.
MerchantZoo.com currently is the exclusive provider for the AffiliateMask service. For more information please contact jon@merchantzoo.com
Disadvantages of Typical Affiliate Programs- Each landing page has a separate link with attached Affiliate ID which has to be cut and pasted onto the affiliate's site.
- Many programs only offer linking to the home page, which can significantly decrease sale conversion rates.
- Competing affiliates can easily recognize affiliate IDs.
- Search engines can easily recognize and filtered out sites with Affiliate IDs.
Advantages of AffiliateMask- No affiliate ID required. Affiliates sign up for a program, add a referring URL, and link to any page on the merchant's site.
- Link directly to any page of the merchant's site (including the shopping cart with products already added) and receive credit for clicks and sales.
- Wildcard Feature allows an affiliate to link from any page on his/her site to any page on the merchant's site and still receive credit.
- Without an affiliate ID, search engine spiders will not recognize a site as being an affiliate site, and therefore the site will not be penalized in search rankings.
Features
  Hide Affiliate IDs from End Users
Instead of adding an affiliate ID to the end of the URL, AffiliateMask uses cookies to store affiliate information.
Integrates Into Existing Affiliate Programs
AffiliateMask is flexible. You can use it to hide a referrer's ID while still integrating it into your existing affiliate program.
Wildcard Matching
Using wildcard matching, you can ensure that your referrers receive credit no matter which page of their site they use to direct traffic to your site.
High Performance
Since AffiliateMask is an ISAPI filter, it increases performance compared to other methods of providing referrer credit, such as PHP and ASP.
 HTTP Headers
HTTP headers give you another way to access the referral ID that is generated from traffic from your affiliates.
Domain Rules
With domain rules, AffiliateMask allows you to change the settings for create cookies or HTTP headers per-domain or per affiliate web site.
Support for Microsoft IIS 4, 5.X, & 6 on Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/.NET
AffiliateMask works on all Windows platforms that support IIS and ISAPI filter plugins. It works with the latest versions of Microsoft IIS and ensures compatibility with older versions of Microsoft IIS as well.
Easy Installation and Setup
AffiliateMask comes with easy-to-use install and uninstall programs. The install program allows for maximum customization while maintaining an easy installation process. The uninstall application removes content that other ISAPI plugins might leave behind.
Change Settings Without Restarting
Unlike most ISAPI filters, AffiliateMask incorporates the ability to change all related settings without having to restart the server. This allows for a much easier setup, installation, and configuration of all of AffiliateMask's features.
Standalone GUI Interface
AffiliateMask comes with a standalone GUI configuration tool that allows you to configure all of the application's many features. It's easy to use and has support for simple migration of settings from one server to another.
MMC Free Zone
Forget about having problems with MMC snap-ins, which are often cumbersome and a hassle to deal with. All ISAPILabs plugins are self-contained and do not require MMC snap-ins to perform statistical analysis.
Logging
No ISAPI plugin would be complete without a logging feature. AffiliateMask includes detailed messages about what is happening behind the scenes and gives you information that tells you exactly what AffiliateMask is doing for you.
Compatible With All Browsers
AffiliateMask supports all browsers including, but not limited to, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera.
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