Comments on: LP Lockdown by NickyCakes

By: bartjan @ bajaca

bartjan @ bajaca — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:23:02 +0000

When you use a technique that isn’t allowed.
Example: when you are not allowed to use incentives but you do it anyway.

By: Serge@CarTransporter

Serge@CarTransporter — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:38:23 +0000

Why would i want to hide my page from affiliates?

By: Jaq | Web Design

Jaq | Web Design — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:00:32 +0000

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.

By: James

James — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:52:21 +0000

Who would have thought nickycakes would become a sellout and launch a product even a 5 year old could bypass?!

By: Someguy

Someguy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:56:48 +0000

lol.some of these comments sound like taken directly from a flog.

By: GooberDoober

GooberDoober — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:20:31 +0000

not sure if serious

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:17:33 +0000

Yeah, you and every other affiliate. Don't think so.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:15:22 +0000

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.

By: used tires

used tires — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:36:48 +0000

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

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:20:34 +0000

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.