ClickBank has long been considered a simple, cost effective way
to promote digital products Online.
Would be merchants are charged a one time, relatively small
start up fee, which will enable them to use ClickBank' secure
payment processing services to accept Online payment (fee per
transaction). What makes ClickBank even more popular is their
affiliate network, which allows merchants to promote their wares
by establishing an affiliate program, listed free in the
ClickBank MarketPlace. The merchant sets the commission rate,
and has the ability to build an affiliate "army" to help promote
their digital product/service. From that point on, ClickBank
takes care of everything. Payment processing, affiliate
commission payment, stats, etc.
But there is one major, easily seen downside to affiliate
promotions. ClickBank uses what is known as "hoplinks" as the
affiliate commission tracking method.
Here is an example: <
http://hop.clickbank.net/?xxxxx.im4newbies
>
The section of the affiliate "hoplink" containing the x's is
replaced by the affiliate's ID. The text that follows (after the
period ...) is the merchant ID.
The problem occurs when promoting this URL, as is.
Anyone with a ClickBank affiliate ID has the ability to replace
the advertiser's ID with their own, even if they are making the
purchase themselves, and take the commission.
The advertiser, that went through the pains of promoting the URL
in the first place, gets nothing.
This META REFRESH tip will help, by making the ClickBank
association less obvious.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You must be able to upload files to your site's
server.
Copy and paste the following code into an HTML editor and save
it to your web server as whateveryoulike.html:
IMPORTANT! In order for the following code to work, replace the
"(" with "<", and the ")" with ">" ...)
(HEAD)(TITLE)Your Affiliate Program Title(/TITLE) (META
http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
url=http://www.YouraffiliateprogramsURL")
(/HEAD)(BODYBGCOLOR="#FFFFFF")(/BODY)(/HTML)
After you save this as whateveryoulike.html, and upload the file
to your server, you will be able to link to the program with
this URL:
http://www.Yourdomain.com/whateveryoulike.htmlThis will help raise your campaign's reliability a notch above
the other affiliates using the traditional methods (and it looks
a lot more professional, to boot ..;).
Another benefit to using this technique is the ability to track
your ads. You can save your page as whateveryoulike1.html,
whateveryoulike2.html, etc., giving each campaign a different
promotion code, and enabling you to find out which one is
drawing the best responses.
This method will not prevent your commissions from being
"stolen", but it should definitely help.
To learn how you can make ClickBank's services even more secure,
visit <
http://im4newbies.com/clickbanknews.htm > .
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