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Before going any further you need to realize that using such a technique, you run the risk of getting your account banned. I do not suggest using this on your major sponsors. If need be, sign up with a new affiliate or two and test it out for yourself.

The concept is simple, we are going to be showing the affiliate image with the size of 300×250. At the same time we will be overlaying our own image or video that is of the same size and hiding the affiliate image behind it. Why do this you might ask? It is easy, you want the people to click on your image or video and think they are going to see more of it. Instead they are clicking on your affiliate think and making you a little bit of money.

Here is a screen shot of the image being fed by the affiliate, in this case I will just use Google to show you.

Now we have our custom image or video that we would like to use on top of our affiliate link.

So now let me show you an easy way to take your own image or video and overlay it on top of your affiliate image. Here is the sample code that can be used to display your affiliate information under an image. You can replace the image with a video as well, just remember to keep the image or video the same size as the ad you are trying to cover up. I also suggest using a rotation script so your CLR is not 100%. I can go over an easy method of rotating you ads with PHP tomorrow. This technique works great for stumbleupon traffic and such, if you truly do have a video though you can always ad a link under the image. This way after they click on the image and see it did not work, they can go back and click on the link “click here if video does not play”. That way they can at least see the video and can help keep the heat turned down a little for you. There is a live link at the bottom of the code block to see this code in action and see how easy it is. Just remember this is against some affiliates TOS and will get your account banned quickly.

<pre>
<code markup=”none”>
<style>
iframe{
opacity: 0;
border: 0px none transparent;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
height: 300px;
width: 250px;
filter:alpha(opacity=0);
}

img{
position: absolute;
top: -50px;
left: 0px;
height: 300px;
width: 250px;
}

</style>

<img src=”http://www.semspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/blackhat-image-trick.jpg” alt=”blackhat image trick”>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “545″;
google_ad_width = 300;
google_ad_height = 250;
google_ad_format = “300×250_as”;
google_ad_type = “image”;
google_ad_channel = “165464″;
//–></script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

</code>

You can see a live example of this in action by clicking here.

This article was originally written on SEMSpot.com, a Search Engine Marketing Blog.