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AFFILIATE FRAUD PROTECTION

You don’t have time for affiliate fraud.

Protect your brand, reduce search costs, and stop shady affiliates from stealing your budget - without spending a single second more than you have to.

Trusted by brands that simply don't have time for fraud 

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Ignorance is bliss. Until you realize how much money affiliate fraud is costing your brand.

Are you falling victim to affiliate fraud in paid search? You might be.

Based on our data, over 85% of brands with an affiliate programme are losing budget through deception. Some of the brands we come across are completely riddled with hijacking, voucher code abuse, publisher brand bidding, and other shady tactics.

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Marcode is the most accurate AND the easiest-to-use solution to keep your paid search budget from being stolen by fraudsters. 

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In less time than it takes to explain to your CEO what an affiliate programme is, you can:

Stop your brand ads from being hijacked and keep third parties from impersonating you

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Identify affiliates generating fraudulent commissions through brand bidding & unauthorised coupons

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Not sure if you’re one of the 85%?

See if ad hijacking is happening to you with our free Chrome extension.

Cut affiliate hijacking & brand bidding off at the knees

Once you know you’re being defrauded, you want to spend as little time as possible fixing that sh*t and moving forward with your life. Enter Marcode. Once you’re set up, you can easily:

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Stop commission payments to fraudulent affiliates

Some Marcode clients now save $500k per year in commissions generated through brand bidding and ad hijacking

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Reduce your brand paid search costs and CPCs

Reduce the competition for your core brand keywords and ensure there’s no double-serving from third parties

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Eliminate trademark infringements in search ads

Ensure consumer safety and adherence to brand guidelines by catching all usages of your trademarks

Claim your free brand search audit

If we don’t find any brand vandalism, drinks are on us!
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Some Marcode customers have reduced their brand search costs by 65% and now save £200k/year in affiliate fraud.

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Faster, smarter, and easier to use
than other tools for
brand protection in search

With Marcode, you can…
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Spot every non-compliant ad

Through carefully tuned search settings and high-frequency checks, we catch hijacked ads as soon as possible. Then we automatically submit user safety complaints to Google.

Always find the affiliate details from every advertiser

Our advanced decloaking infrastructure extracts the full redirect and affiliate details from all known hijackers and cloaking platforms (no matter how sophisticated they are).

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Take action with as little effort as humanly possible

Marcode is the most user-friendly brand protection platform you’ll find. We keep everything dead-simple, because you’ve got far better ways to spend your day than dealing with fraud.

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WHY CLIENTS TRUST MARCODE

"Brilliant tool that's really helped us find fraudulent publishers… tested simultaneously with the other top tools in the space but none were able to detect the complex cloaking like Marcode.”

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Chikay Lo

Founder at Lo Digital

Rooting out fraud can be fast and (dare we say) fun

With Marcode, cutting down on affiliate fraud feels like taking candy from a baby. (In this case, the baby stole the candy from you first. Not cool, baby.)

 

We make it quick and simple to ban uSERPers with Task Manager: your customisable, automated way to contact and remove offending affiliates and trademark bidders.​

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Task manager gives you:

  • Email functionality within Marcode, complete with customisable templates — so you can warn or ban offenders with a click
     

  • End-to-end tracking of affiliate warnings sent — matched against affiliate IDs, and connected to your program via API
     

  • Creation of trademark complaints — so you can file automatically instead of copy/pasting the same email over and over
     

  • Tracked comments
     

  • Visibility and assignment for all team members

Claim your free brand search audit

If we don’t find any brand vandalism, drinks are on us!
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We check your brand keywords obsessively so you don’t have to

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Hi, we’re Alec and Andy. In 2023, after over a decade working in search marketing, we started to notice a HUGE uptick in fraud and affiliate hijacking. But no platforms were catching it — so we decided to tackle the problem ourselves.

 

From affiliate hijacking to brand bidding, voucher code fraud, and impostor websites, Marcode finds more fraud than other brand tracking software. Along with checking for fraud more accurately and frequently, we give you the tools and data you actually need to resolve issues quickly and move on with your life. 

 

Plus, our user experience feels like it’s from this century (because, well, it is). Think of Marcode like a fancy doctor’s office: it’s so nice, you’ll almost forget you don’t want to be here.

See why dozens of performance marketing & search teams rely on Marcode

Save your brand reputation & budget, even when you really don’t feel like it

Discover Marcode today

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