[redletterhatter]

I was curious about this awhile ago, but I didn't pursue it enough.

A few years ago, I was making money on Clickbank when I ran into a problem. Someone who came across my affiliate link went to the checkout page, found my affiliate ID, and reported me to Clickbank for spamming, and I was shut down.

At the time, I was iframing the direct link, and just dropping my cookie as an image, like this.

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<img height="1px" width="1px" src="http://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net" />

The pixel would fire like it was supposed to, so it seemed like things would be fine.

The problem was, no matter what, my affiliate ID was still always (and still is) available at the bottom of the checkout page.

It got me thinking.

If I could send each "hop" to the site with a different cookie, then even if I was reported, Clickbank might shut down that one account, but I'd still be okay with the rest. It wouldn't kill my promotion for the rest of the day.

So I guess my question is, does anyone out there know how this can be done? Since the images aren't really "images," I wasn't sure if a normal PHP image rotator would work (or how to set it up).

I'd want it to be able to handle a large list, as I'd be adding new affiliate links to it constantly.

Is it doable?

I suppose I'd just have a list of HTML image tags that I would need rotated through. Something like this:

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<img height="1px" width="1px" src="http://affiliate1.vendor.hop.clickbank.net" />
<img height="1px" width="1px" src="http://affiliate2.vendor.hop.clickbank.net" />
<img height="1px" width="1px" src="http://affiliate3.vendor.hop.clickbank.net" />
<img height="1px" width="1px" src="http://affiliate4.vendor.hop.clickbank.net" />
etc.

I'd just want those rotated.

Doable?

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I would think this would be fairly easy. If someone was to truly help me get this worked out, I'd pay.