Stopping Affiliate Hijackers

affiliate hijacking is when someone runs paid search ads to your website that are identical to your brand ads, using their affiliate tracking, stealing traffic that was already looking for you it's one of the highest cost areas of affiliate fraud this section shows you how to detect, investigate, and stop hijackers what you'll learn detect hijackers using marcode's monitoring and reports investigate fraud by extracting affiliate ids and gathering evidence take action by warning, banning, or escalating to networks and google automate enforcement using task manager and playbooks 📊 detection & monitoring start here to understand what you're seeing in marcode docid\ tfpez5amgt8qqaqetxiul learn how to read your monitoring overview and spot hijackers docid\ ba9a3uo7z0pq3tgighy7m understand which advertisers are bidding on your brand terms docid 26awqetet9yutabbuputd see the actual affiliate details of those hijacking your ads docid\ xwo1n0zhxbapvxw35hh5k understand how we extract affiliate ids automatically every day 🔍 investigation & evidence found a hijacker? here's how to get the details you need docid\ mnkpgevmiwiymppkuyg5v manually analyse ads when you need immediate results docid\ wjyjyo8t97i8 ocm6ndt1 isolate a specific affiliate and export all their data docid\ e5ltztk4nkmekn6 u7o0 learn what evidence to collect and how to present it ⚡ taking action ready to stop the fraud? choose your approach docid\ rkf5vn f e1tsj7lndb t decide whether to warn or ban, and understand different scenarios docid\ nnvzhun b5wivmimobxx2 track enforcement and automate repetitive tasks docid\ txyapmjoj0j4vn6wmwz80 creating automated sequences to communicate with hijackers docid\ djy v6o 6p xnttzqj09h submit trademark and policy violation complaints quick paths "i just found a hijacker in my reports" → reading the hijacking report → extracting affiliate details → how to deal with hijackers "i need to send evidence to a subnetwork" → filtering and exporting affiliate details → gathering evidence → email templates "i want to automate my enforcement" → understanding the task manager → using playbooks "the affiliate is denying it" → gathering evidence → reporting affiliate hijackers understanding affiliate hijacking what is it? affiliates run paid search ads on your brand terms, sending clicks to your website with their affiliate tracking attached they earn commission on sales from customers already looking for you why it's a problem inflates your paid search costs pays commission on non incremental sales cannibalises your own ppc/seo traffic violates affiliate programme terms how marcode helps detects hijackers through high frequency monitoring extracts affiliate ids even when hidden provides evidence for enforcement automates warnings and escalations 💡 getting started new to fighting hijacking? start with reading the hijacking report to understand what you're seeing, then move to how to deal with hijackers when you're ready to take action