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[Edit: This has generated a shitstorm at Wickedfire, and its generating a lot of bad attention. I am faced with deleting this post, or keeping it up and being associated to the product. Most of the negative attention has been faced towards one of the producers of the product, and not the actual product. The product isn't perfect, and there never will be a way to block all of those who want to steal your landing pages. This tool can help stop those less clever and understanding of our industry from taking landing pages/editing their html. It does as is advertised, and if you don't think its worth the price or if it is too shady, just refrain from purchasing the service.

As a side note, besides beta-testing this product, I was not directly involved in building it other than giving genuine feedback. More specifically, I was not directly involved in collecting IP addresses for the product in any way.]

When Nickycakes came to Thailand, he told me about a tool he was developing for affiliates. He was nice enough to let me in the beta-test stage and try it out. That product is now available as LPLockdown.

The things Nick has included in this is ridiculous for any affiliate marketer. Block those pesky LP jackers, steal back traffic they’ve taken from you, get downtime reports sent straight to your phone, scramble your landing page codes, and it is done all simply with a few bits and pieces of JavaScript code here and there. It’s an amazing set of tools that I’m really glad I got to test out. I don’t think I could describe it any better than Nick did on his blog so you can read about it here, or here is a (long) excerpt taken from his blog (cuz I’m lazyyy).

The Cloaker

The concept behind the cloaker is fairly straightforward.  LPLockdown has cleverly collected a list of over 150,000 ip addresses of internet marketers from various sources.  You can use this list to show these people a different page than your own instead of your landing page.  For example, some landing page thief is on google looking for a page to steal, clicks your ad, and is sent to your landing page.  If you have LPLockdown enabled, he is sent somewhere else instead.  Maybe an Amazon.com page for a related product.  Thinking this is the page you advertising, he will likely move on to the next ad and steal someone elses page instead of yours.  In addition to just internet marketing IP addresses, there are many other things to cloak against, including geographic locations.

The Monitor(s)

There are actually two features in LPLockdown that actively monitor your landing pages.  The first is an uptime monitor.  If you do PPC, you NEED an uptime monitor.  Nickycakes doesn’t even care if you use his service for this.  If you don’t have one, you NEED to get one.  If your hosting craps out on you while you’re at lunch, and you don’t notice for a few hours, you can lose a LOT of money.  Well, with the uptime monitor, you’ll have a SMS text message sent to your phone the minute your hosting dies letting you shut down your traffic before things get out of hand.  This is an essential tool for any internet marketer to have, period.

The second monitor is a theft monitor.  Using hidden code on your landing page, LPLockdown will notify you the minute someone manages to steal your page and move it to their own hosting.  Normally, this wouldn’t really be a big deal, since, in the past, there was next to nothing you could do if someone stole your page except get pissed about it and move on, but this brings us to the third major feature of LPLockdown which Nickycakes likes to refer to as “Creative Loss Prevention”.

Creative Loss Prevention

Ok, so lets say someone manages to steal your page.  They upload it to their hosting, and you immediately get a text message telling you something’s up.  You then log into LPLockdown (you can do this with your iphone, blackberry, whatever) and with a few clicks, LPLockdown can instruct the stolen landing page to send all the thief’s traffic back to your own page.  Or, you could wait until they grab a $10,000 a day media buy before springing the trap.  You can also do fun things like rewrite all the links on his page, turning them into your own affiliate links.  This isn’t stuff that requires any technical knowledge on your part, mind you;  all of this is done via simple drop-down menus.

Game over.

Extras!

There are a few extra fun features thrown in for good measure, such as an HTML code obfuscator, which simply encodes your webpage, making it nearly impossible for anyone to edit it if they steal it.  New features and improvements will be added regularly.

So you want to get in on this? Well, you should… if you are profiting from a new campaign that you don’t want others to steal, this is exactly what you’ve been looking for. Unfortunately, Nickycakes decided to keep everyone out of it, and only allow those that have been invited in to the program. Lucky for you guys, I have 10 invites. If you are 100% positive you are going to buy in to this (It is only $49.72 per month), contact me and I’ll send you an invite. Only those that are 100% confident they will purchase need to contact me.

Otherwise, you can click here to join the waiting list while spots and get on in a first-come first-serve basis.

I’ve played with the tools and I’ve found them to be amazing throughout the Beta-stages of development. Now that it has been launched 100%, I’m looking forward to toying with it more as Nick has informed me that the tools have been vastly improved. I’d suggest you get the scoop on this before all the invites are gone.