CJ sales down

what ways are there for sales to by hijacked

[mikeD]

My sales seem to be well down from a couple of CJ programs I promote. My traffic is the same and I seem to be sending the same amount of people to these programs. I trust these merchants and my only idea is that the sales are being hijacked somehow. I don't protect my affiliate code by php so this could one way it's not secure.

[rcjordan]

Search on gator and kazaa, what's known as (to be polite) intervention marketing. Basically, these toolbars and apps intercede on the desktop and write their own links or provide what they try to term as "contextual advertising" -providing ads relevant to the terms on your page.

Gator's reach is now around 9%. Based on a rough evaluation of my traffic, there are enough other toolbars and such being used that I'd say the overall reach of this type of traffic-jacking may be double that percentage.

[mikeD]

this has been more of a 2 week big decline rcjordan rather than a slow process which I think would indicate scumware. Just at a complete loss to explain it.

[jimh009]

My sales this month have been down too, and not just for CJ. Even Amazon has really died off this month. I think the whole war thing, in combination with the seemingly sinking economy, is really taking an effect on sales. Not likely to get much better over the next couple of weeks I suspect, either, until things begin to sorth themselves out a bit more.

Just my two cents.

Jim

[buckworks]

Sales seem sluggish all around, judging by comments on more than one board that I visit. Online marketers and brick/mortar merchants are singing the same song.

I think war worries have a lot to do with it. People are holding their breath ... and holding on to their wallets ... waiting to see what happens.

[teeceo]

I thought it was just my site. Thing have been slow for atless three weeks now for me and I still get the same amount of traffic. This is the real world so, don't waste your money these days.

teeceo.

[linkshark]

Look at the markets:

Rumors of Binladen's sons killed/captured caused a spike in trading on the Stock Exchange. This rumor made people buy.

Everyone is freaked out about the current state of world affairs, which causes utter frugality (tightwaddedness).

I say bombs away!