Affiliate marketing has so many facet and techniques, that often times it’s easy to find yourself involved with a scam or being taken advantage of. Everyone can be at risk, including the consumer, merchant and affiliates. So how can we truly prevent wide-spread fraud that tricky people think they can get away with? Easy.

First off, you need to be aware of different techniques for affiliate marketing scams:

  1. Duplicating
  2. Spamming
  3. Squatting
  4. Diverting
  5. Faking
  6. Stealing

When faced with the above, once of the most important things you can do for the affiliate marketing community is to share what you’ve found and prevent others from falling into the same trap. Make sure you’re communicating with others and keeping your own blacklist for your own reference and to share.

You also need to be able to track IPs and prevent automatic approval for adding affiliates. This infographic goes over each step in more detail and is a great resource for understanding risks and finding solutions to affiliate fraud.

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