If you’re interested in affiliate stuff, you must be pretty angry on people that cut off your aff code just because they don’t like affiliate links. Some of them are retarded, some of them really believe that they can loose something when they click on your affiliate link, others are just pesky - do not mind it, at least they’re all only humans, and it’s understandable. But if you think you don’t have to be boiled, I’m afraid that you’re TOTALLY wrong. The only one that you need to be angry about is the guy that host your affiliate program. Yes, that means there’s a bunch of monkeys that make use of you every time you put a sucky affiliate link within a page.

You say “wait, but I do make bucks on it!“, but you don’t make any money, in fact. Unless you have your own sheep herd that clicks, you don’t earn any bucks on affiliate marketing - all that you receive for participating in affiliate program is only a piece of sucky handout. Now answer a question - Do you really need to be used by batch of monkeys that make REAL money on it? You bring traffic to their offers, and in most cases you do it for FREE just because people don’t like to click on affiliate links. Don’t you respect your work? Do you really like to feel like a beggar?

Some of you know it well, for those who don’t - whatever stats you use (AWstats, Google Analytics, even poor Wordpress stats), you must notice that there’s always a smart list of Referring Sites available. And yeah, this is that simple to develop and include within all of affiliate programs that you participate in. There’s no need to hide affiliate links with JavaScript, redirects, iframes, or whatever.

There are LOTS of affiliate programs available, sadly at the moment I can see only two exceptions: Amazon (thanks to the way they create URLs your aff codes are difficult to remove) and TNX.net (their system is able to track all users coming from URL of a single page that you can enter in your panel).

BTW it would be really cool to use it for all pages, simply by adding domain names. Don’t you think so?