Trying to generate a lot of income on the affiliate program has been getting tougher. With more awareness and the ease of entry into this method of making money more often than not there are a lot of people who want to make a fast buck any which way. While the internet is a great tool there are certain loop holes which are not being plugged and have attracted unscrupulous characters to enter into this field and steal genuine affiliates of their hard earned income. Cheating online is easy. Hijackers and hackers can just substitute your ID in the URL address and change it to their diverting your rightful commission to their account. Sometimes people do not want you to make money so they try to bypass your id and go directly into the website relieving you off the commission that you would have otherwise earned. To be able to avoid this can save you a lot of money and you would not need to feel ripped off. Following a few simple tips can prevent hackers from getting into your site and hijacking your commission. Hiding your affiliate link by using a JavaScript redirect page can be one of them. This will avoid transparency of your link to the hijackers, but the downside to this can be that the affiliate link can be shown on the address bar and the visitor might realize that he is being redirected to the link. The answer to this could be in the use of invisible frames that make the visitor assume that he is visiting a page on your site while in reality he is actually being redirected to your affiliate link. Using JavaScript encryption to scramble the code page, this can be a solution in trying to avoid any pitfalls. Affiliate program, genuine affiliates, prevent hackers, Hiding your affiliate link