CJ going to kick me of

help any ideas what to do next?

[toonarmy]

Hi
This is my first post here and need some help quick
Last week i received and email from CJ quality control as how i sent traffic to them, (by the way i only use them to link to ebay) they asked did i use pop ups emails or software etc, i pointed out that i only use direct text links back to them and use no other means, the next day i get a nasty email saying that i am driving invalid clicks to them an i must tell them how i was doing it, i pointed out that my website is very basic and its built in frontpage nothing fancy and the only links to them where my text links, next day i get another email to say if i do not tell them i will be banned from the programme, they reckon i must be using something called a middle server because my url is stripped out, i pointed out that why would i do this as i would not get paid for any ebay sales so it would be pointless doing so, they got back saying that yes i would only get paid for the referrals with my url in and not the ones without which is fair enough with me but they still stay if i do not stop the invalid clicks then my account will be deleted, has anyone else had this problem and what can i do?, they have confirmed that my pages on my site are working ok and they are tracking those clicks ok, so where on earth are the invalid ones coming from

HELP

[gamiziuk]

Look into places named "Linkshare" and "Shareasale" dot com.

[toonarmy]

thanks for the tip but i need to keep my cj account as i only use them for ebay, i have just had another message from them saying that i am still sending hits without my url in them and will kick me off if i do not sort it out, has this problem happend to anyone on here? and how did they sort it out?

[jomaxx]

If you really have no idea what could be happening, I suppose the most likely explanation is spider activity of some kind. You could replace your CJ links with a redirect script. The script could test whether a referring page is specified - if it is, then redirect the user to CJ; if not, then send them to an error page on your site instead, so that you can see who/what is generating these clickthroughs.

It's not a great solution because 5% or 10% of valid users normally won't have a referrer set. But at least it should get you through the short term.

P.S. Put the redirect script in a directory which is banned to spiders via the robots.txt file. There's no reason any spider needs to follow those links.