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Nickycakes (also known as affiliate of the year), just launched a service called LP Lockdown. This service is WAY overdue and needed for this industry.
In a nutshell, this service helps you: Cloak your page from other affiliate, cloak on facebook, cloak via geographical location, get SMS (or email) updates if your page / offer is down, and theft monitoring (and allows you to redirect their page back to yours).
Wow - That's a lot of stuff. Let me explain each one.
LP Lockdown Cloaking
Block Your Page from Being Seen by Other Affiliates
This is my favorite part of the service.
Ever had your landing page scouted out by other affiliates? I hate that and I'm sure you do too. This script uses a database of 150,000+ known affiliate IP addresses and redirects the person if they have that IP address. You can be really sneaky with this and redirect the affiliate directly to an offer, making them think you are direct linking. Or... if you want to be just plain mean, send them to... well you can get creative there. 
Thus, your landing page is SAFE for the most part.
Block Your Page from Being Seen by Facebook
Beyond just cloaking other affiliates, you have the the option to cloak known facebook IP addresses.
The way this is most commonly used is to get landing pages that normally would not be approved by facebook, into the system by cloaking them to a page that would be allowed.
I don't cloak my facebook accounts because I don't want to risk getting banned, but some people do it and make a ton of money doing it. This script makes it even easier.
Block Your Page by GEO Location
This is another really great part of the LP Lockdown service. You can block entire states or countries based upon IP address!
This is where you can get pretty creative in how you use the script. 
Uptime Monitoring LP Lockdown
Uptime monitoring is a much needed service in the affiliate marketing world. LP Lockdown makes it simple enough to get SMS updates as soon as your page goes down. Nothing new here, but a nice feature to have integrated in for sure.
Theft Monitoring / Protection LP Lockdown
Has your landing page ever been ripped off? It sucks. It's happened to me a few times and I know it does not feel good.
This script allows you to monitor if someone has ripped your site and uploaded to their server instantly via SMS Message.
After you get the SMS message, you can actually REDIRECT people back from the stolen page to your landing page effectively taking back the traffic. That is... until the person realizes that all their traffic is being stolen back.
Cost
LP Lockdown costs around $49 bucks per month... and for everything it does, it's well worth the money.
Sign up For LP Lockdown
I've had the privilege of being allowed into LP Lockdown, but unfortunately not everyone will be allowed in. It's an invite only system.
Now, if you're wanting to buy LP Lockdown, contact me, and I will send you an invite. If you don't buy within 24 hours after getting the invite, you've lost your chance forever.
I ONLY have 10 invites, so the first come, first serve...
If you're unsure if you want to buy or not, click here, to be added to the waiting list.
Looks pretty useless to me. There are better ways to protect your page from being stolen. Anyone who wants a page can easily get a proxy setup and bypass this system… gimme a break…
How can you use a proxy on a site you don’t realize is cloaking? You gonna proxy every page you research?
Actually yes, I use FoxyProxy and have about 20 or so proxies from various countries, I always test competitive pages I’m interested in using at least one of the proxies to see what I get.
lol. i’d love to hear these “better ways” that have somehow eluded us. haha
Yeah, you and every other affiliate. Don’t think so.
Jonathan!Finally I can come back to your blog.I read your post and it was pretty interesting.Keep up the gr8 work.
Hey Jon,
I’d love an invite — this is a must-buy to me for the uptime monitoring and IP redirection alone… the LP theft stuff is a bonus!
Shoot me an invite please!
Allen
49 bucks a month is pretty expensive. Oh well, if that’s the price you have to pay for being secured then why not.
Wow, Cakes officially sold out now too. What a joke, Nick wants to keep it real and then launches a ridiculously expensive ’service’ that doesn’t do sh!t, what happen, your campaigns dry up buddy?
Let’s see, the cloakers a joke, a 10-year old could get around that. The uptime monitor is found for FREE on many other sites/services. And the freakin javascript shiz is not self-hosted so in other words we open up our profitable campaigns and pay him while doing so. Quite possibly, one of the shadiest dudes in the industry.
What he should have done is offer some type of self-hosted platform, or released his javascript code to his blog readers. But instead, he’s going to scam and rape his peers.
Not only that, but he’s also getting called out over at Wickedfire from the guy that actually coded the damn thing!!! – http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/83089-blocking-lp-lockdown-nickycakes.html
Fucking joke.
I’ve never read a more factually incorrect comment in my life.
ORLY?
Well let me break it down for your feeble mind, scammer.
Cloaking – lmao, easy as hell to get around, use proxies which disable javascript. ROFL. Or just do what that dude at Wickedfire said. Oh, and not being able to choose who we cloak from is the nail in the coffin for this thing – how do I know you’re not using this to cloak previous buyers/buyer competition? WPSmartTools does this so much better.
Monitor downtime – Don’t be scammed by cakes, use a free service like montastic.com or get your own plan.
Monitor theft – ROFL, all the “thief” has to do is remove JS code. Most LP stealers don’t copy code, they copy design. All I have to do is tell my designer to emulate the design and then copy + paste the copywriting. lmfao.
HTML obfuscation – TONS of free/cheap products out there to do that.
Or just buy WPSmartTools and have your OWN hosted version of this without exposing your LPs to scammer cakes who will [allegedly] obviously steal all of your shit.
Keep it real.
It appears to have been only 5 minutes since this comment was posted, but I’m very interested to see what cakes response would be to this.
I don’t do a lot of affiliate marketing other than stuff through CJ and I guess Amazon but one thing I’ve heard most is to always opt for self hosted solutions to prevent your information from being seen by anyone.
Chris Guthrie
There is not a single solution that will protect you 100% of the time from your landing pages being stolen.
That said, the majority of people who have stolen my landing pages have kept all the html intact and did not find any hidden javascript traps I set.
There ARE ways around my tool, for sure. However, this will offer you the best protection available.
I’ll run down your points and offer my opinions on each, even though you’re obviously trolling and trying to get a response out of me.
Cloaking: If someone knows you’re cloaking your page, then yes, they can easily get around it by loading up a proxy that isn’t already included in our list (yes we have a huge list of anonymous proxies as well to cloak against). Disabling javascript will only matter if you’re not using our API to cloak, which is unaffected by javascript. To the average affiliate who does competition research by just going around and clicking ads to see what people are advertising, this will be extremely effective in throwing them off if you forward them to some random related site.
Monitoring downtime – Use a free tool, or write your own if you want, but this is a great feature to have, regardless, and having it in the same place as the rest of your landing page protection tools is very convenient. Also, you get what you pay for, as per pretty much anything.
Theft monitor – As mentioned above, the people who need to steal landing pages to get ahead are generally idiots. We’ve all seen countless threads where people leave externally hosted images and such in their stolen lander. If you use 202 on a successful page, you’ll probably have had multiple people steal your shit and leave the 202 javascript still in the page. These people are the majority, not the minority, and for them, this tool is extremely effective.
Obfuscation – another convenient tool to have in addition to the rest of what we offer, regardless of other solutions being available.
Suggestiong WPSmartTools as an alternative is quite a joke. Not only is it a wordpress plugin, which is ok if you only use wordpress, but it doesn’t have nearly close to as many features as our product and being a WP plugin, by nature, MUCHHHHH slower. Apples to oranges.
Anyone who knows me knows I would not sacrifice my integrity by stealing your campaigns. I run a legitimate business, and screwing over my peers is the last thing I’m interested in.
If you’d like, I can give you an invite to the service, and you can try it for yourself, and offer suggestions of how you think it could be improved, and I will gladly refund your money if you find it not worth the cost. I hope, however, that we have done a decent job in getting user feedback and making improvements in the beta process.
Have a good one.
@Nicky, I challenge you to prove that WP Smart Tools’ Smart Protect is measurably slower than a remote request to your server (at least, that’s how I understand this works) to load some Javascript / whatever else. Since Smart Protect simply injects a locally generated Javascript in to your page, and you… simply inject a remotely generated Javascript, I’m sure the DNS overhead/etc. makes it almost identically fast.
@Kann, That said, WP Smart Tools’s Smart Protect and NickyCakes’ LP Lockdown are quite different products. Smart Protect is part of a full WordPress-powered landing page toolkit and is designed to simply catch as much landing page theft as possible – we don’t maintain a central database of affiliate’s IPs (like I assume Nicky is), in fact there’s no call home at all, no interaction with my server.
I don’t know if LP Lockdown does more than WP Smart Tools’ Smart Protect, but I imagine it does. Smart Protect is designed to be a simple solution to a simple problem as part of a greater landing page toolkit. If you’re not comfortable with Nicky’s callhome, don’t use LP Lockdown. If you’re not comfortable with using WordPress, don’t use WP Smart Tools. It’s that simple, really.
Smart Tools is meant for those who want an affiliate marketing toolkit that includes everything they need in one spot – including a simple theft protection system. LP Lockdown is meant to keep affiliates off your landing page entirely.
Also wanted to add, uptime monitoring is a feature WP Smart Tools does not and cannot offer. At least not without a hosted service like this. The “Theft Protection” section of LP Lockdown is nearly identical to WP Smart Tools’ Smart Protect, and some simple use of Link Engine can reproduce the cloaking feature quite easily too, but the uptime monitoring and live IP databases obviously cannot be provided by my WordPress plugin without call homes, etc.
If you need uptime monitoring though, you might be better off with one of the “big boys”, I don’t know. I still think Nicky’s got an awesome product here – and not even really something that competes with WP Smart Tools – they fill different niches.
$49 really is expensive but like you said, “it’s well worth the money.” I will be thinking about this and will be retweeting about it too.
If $49 sounds really expensive to you, you don’t need LP Lockdown. Guaranteed.
what happens if i go check out a landing page in my university library? will i get redirected? probably not so it failed…
You really can’t put a price on security. And although $45 sounds a bit pricey, you have to decide if your security needs warrant it.
Till then,
Jean
Interesting stuff. I personally respect the path that nickycakes has taken: super affiliate, make a name for yourself in the industry, leverage your name to build and sell a product that helps others. This is a very high leverage path and I wish nickycakes and the folks using his system all the best!
Agreed. It’s a definitely quite an interesting strategy. Will be waiting and watching to see how it goes for everyone involved.
Till then,
Jean
Lol 49 Bucks is like a dinner out at Mcdonalds for a family of 4. Thats cheap. It’s worth it to keep people from copying your bread and butter. if your sweating over 49 bucks, maybe affiliate marketing isn’t for you lol.
I personally think it’s a little expensive. But that’s coming from a web developer who knows how to make a script like this and get it up within 12 hours.
The pain in making a script like this is enough that I would probably pay something like $9.99 each month. I mean there is no overhead, so it’s a more reasonable price.
Not to downplay your coding abilities, but there is no way you could get a script with the functionality and ease of use that we’ve created up and running in anything even resembling that timeframe. If you’d like to check it out for yourself, I’ll gladly refund you if you decide it isn’t worth the investment.
If you rely on your landing pages to make much money $49/month is a small price to pay to protect it. Unfortunately most protection is not fool proof. There is often still a way to get around it. You just have to decide if the threat that it does protect against is worth that monthly fee.
Since it’s a monthly payment I take it they update the IP addresses regularly?
Are new features added over time as well?
Yes, and yes.
This definitely sounds like the best cloaking service around.
Hi John, thanks for the post, but I’m not going to lie. This tool seems like a useless piece of shit. Why? Because anyone with half of brain could bypass the system.
1. The cloaking won’t realistically work.
A lot of people have dynamic IPs, there’s no way you could acquire a list of all affiliate IPs and affiliate marketers are retarded – if someone really want to view a competitors LP they will use a proxy or VPN. 150k IPs isn’t much at all, and you could easy be redirecting the dumb marketers wife with the credit card in her hand. What’s worse is Adwords reviewers might get added to the IP list, the display url will be wrong and you’ll get your accounts banned for cloaking.
2. The Monitoring? Are you fucking serious?
Any decent host offers this for free, and if they don’t there are free tools out there.
3. Stealing back your traffic?! Yeah right.
What sort of down-syndrome affiliate wouldn’t remove the Java on your original LP? Any affiliate who actually makes money will notice and remove it. Not to mention 80% of people who steal LP’s will just design something similar without viewing the source code.
I’m sorry NickyCakes, although you might be ‘affiliate of the year’, but the only real thief here is you.
Just my $0.02.
not sure if serious
lol.some of these comments sound like taken directly from a flog.
Who would have thought nickycakes would become a sellout and launch a product even a 5 year old could bypass?!
I quite enjoy the concept of stealing back your stolen traffic. There is sort of a poetic justice in that. LP Lockdown seems like a tool that will really benefit the affiliate industry.
Why would i want to hide my page from affiliates?
When you use a technique that isn’t allowed.
Example: when you are not allowed to use incentives but you do it anyway.