After several campaigns with various affiliate companies and not seeing the results that I had expected.
I began looking into the possibilities that my affiliate links had been hijacked.

Hijacked in the respect that someone might click on my advertisement and then see the vendor's domain in the address bar. With a little modification, the vendor's domain would still remain but alas my commission would be gone.

For those that are new, in affiliate marketing then whole premise is for you to receive commissions for directing traffic to whichever vendor. Clicks to that link, from your direction or redirection is how you get paid. No click equals no money and if they can't tell that you even sent them there, then for sure there is no money.

So in my research to discover a way to keep my link, I found Renegade Cloaker. It has been a great tool to include in arsenal.

Renegade Cloaker was easy to install. I had some troubleshooting to work out with my host. John Hostler, who offers Renegade to the public, immediatly responded to my questions and worked with his own programmer for a quick resolution.

There are tutorials for installation and how to use the program. I am truly happy with this low cost investment. It even has a feature that lets me see how many times my link has been "clicked".