This was meant to be a part of my post about three CJ executives who left CJ to get into their own affiliate marketing business but, blame the stupid Microsoft Software, my laptop crashed and the whole post was lost… and I am in no mood to re-write it.

However, I do want to share with you an inference that I was to draw from that.

You never see top affiliate marketers like Mook-Jon and Chris Beasley reveal the URLs to all of their sites. Why? They don’t want their tactics to be copied.

Now what about a person who worked in an affiliate network and had access to all your website addresses and statistics? How to you protect your secrets from him?

Well, while I was reading one of the posts on this topic I came across a comment by someone who chose to remain anonymous –

This is not something new…This happened to me 3 years ago. A then CJ employee stole the idea/techniques for a very profitable nice i was working in (the monetery damage would be atleast $300k-$400k) ,he even stole the site design,optimization techniques etc…

The things i learned, never ever list your revenue sites in aff networks, redirect to merchants thro intermediary domain(s), never use keywords directly in subids to track keyword level performance instead use codes.

Thanks whosoever you are! Now, I am not a super-affiliate right now but I sure am going to follow your advise sir / ma’am!

That’s another reason — other than being constantly bugged about how you did this and that and why you did so and so — to not reveal all your website’s URLs.