The vast majority of people browse the internet while they're at work each day. The searcher clicks on your ad at work with your standard affiliate link (non-masked). They then look at the website, and maybe they decide to buy, but since they're at their work computer, they decide to wait until they get home that night when it's more convenient to come back and purchase.
Then they save the web URL (which is now converted to the vendors URL and not your hoplink anymore), email it to their home computer, and purchase the program when they get home that night. Since they purchased from a different computer, which didn't have the clickbank tracking cookie, you missed out on your commission as an affiliate.
Now don't freak out and get too worried that you're losing lots of commissions as an affiliate because of this scenerio (this doesn't really happen that often). Probably more than 9 times out of 10, most people are still going to buy from the same computer they clicked on your affiliate link with and you receive your due commission.
Part of affiliate marketing is knowing that it isn't a perfect game, but rather a 95% accurate game. We all know there are certain flaws in the system where some people's computers don't allow cookies and so on, but the bottom line is that a whole lot of us are making a good living as affiliate marketers, so rest assured knowing that it works well enough for you to do VERY WELL!
But now here's where your masked domain averts this problem. Even if they click on the affiliate link at work, they are not seeing the vendors domain, and are rather seeing your masked domain, so when they go back to that domain when they get home at night, your cookie is now placed on their home computer as well. Now your tracking cookie is both on their work computer and their home computer, so you no longer miss out on that small % of people that wait to get home to make the purchase.
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