So at one point or another everyone gets a landing page stolen from them.  Its super annoying, highly unethical, and extremely widespread.  So what can you do about it?  Lets first take a look at why people steal landing pages.  They steal them because they convert, because they can’t design one, or they can’t afford to have one designed.

One thing that always amazed me about the affiliate marketing industry is that a lot of these affiliates make decent money without any coding or design knowledge at all.  I personally think everyone in the industry should make a point to learn at least the basics of web programming (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript) and heres why…

You can use javascript to replace the value of the link after the page has been loaded.  This means that even if someone steals your landing page and changes the url to theirs, the javascript will change it back and if they view the source it will still read as theirs.  Heres some example code.

<script>
if(window.location.href.indexOf(‘google.com’) == -1)
{
window.location=’http://google.com’;
}
</script>

This checks to see if the page is hosted at google.com. If its not it redirects to google.com. The indexOf needs to be the base domain, so the redirect doesn’t fire on URLs with extra params and stuff.

<a id=”test” href=”http://lol.com”>test link</a>
<script>
if(document.getElementById(‘test’).href != ‘http://google.com’) {
document.getElementById(‘test’).href = ‘http://google.com’;
}
</script>

Checks the href value of your affiliate link. If its not your affiliate link then it changes it to your affiliate link. The script part must go BELOW the link itself or in onLoad in the body tag.

Ideas to expand on this:

1. If you go the link replacing route set the window.status on mouse over to the value of their link so when they view the page and mouseover, they still see their link, even though it actually links to yours.

2. Don’t replace links/redirect 100% of the time. Just replace them 1/2 or 1/3 the time. This way you basically just take a cut, and they have less of a chance of finding out. If your lucky they’ll still make a profit, and continue running the campaign. You’ll get tons of free clicks.

3. Encrypt the Javascript. You can use this to encrypt it:
Javascript Encoder
Encode it and put it in your page with some HTML comments above that say its for the image rollovers or something. Or actually encode your rollever JS with it and that way if the delete it they delete the rollover part too and stuff breaks.

4. Put the code multiple places in your site, so if they remove it once another still fires.