how-to-prevent-spy-bots-from-snooping-around-your-ppc-campaigns

As PPC affiliates, we spend countless hours researching our market, collecting keywords, building landing pages, and writing ads. After endless splits tests and tweaks, we finally find that grand slam “campaign” that seemingly deposits money into our bank, hand over fist. Month after month, the campaign is running strong, until one day for no apparent reason, the money dries up. What happened?

A number of things “could’ve” happened, but there is no time for speculation. There are “intelligence gathering” spiders out there, crawling and collecting all of our hard work into a centralized repository, for other affiliates to simply shortcut their way to your hard earned riches. Can anything be done to stop them? Read the rest of this entry