Is anyone using Affiliate Prophet with the Affiliate Spy method?
I am using the direct fetch method to retrieve a vendor's website and display it on my own page. In the configuration I have my hop link and the result page as the vendor page + the ?hop=affID as well. At first this looked like it was working beautifully. I would go to my own domain, it displayed the vendor's page perfectly, and when I clicked the order button the order form had my affiliate ID at the bottom. I put up my ads and got a sale within hours (luck of the draw).
5 days later and absolutely no more sales, even though I was getting roughly 30 clicks/day per campaign. I began testing the site using random computers and different browsers. What I found is that sometimes, not all times, and with no real reproducible sequence or settings, my affiliate ID was not registered when clicking the order button on either product site. I used friend's PCs, work PCs, Macs, firefox, safari, internet explorer, all with varied results, nothing that seemed dependent on the browser or its security/cookie settings, or the operating system. It was completely random. Sometimes it worked on the second round, or on a page refresh. I also tried reconfiguring the sites with the second PHP method (CURL vs Retrieve), and this did not change anything.
While my traffic wasn't ridiculously high, there is a good chance I missed a sale or two. I stopped running the campaigns and disabled the sites for the time being.
What I have read elsewhere though is that some people believed, even though they didn't have much proof, that Clickbank's code was not working properly. So perhaps the whole issue here lies with Clickbank and not Affiliate Prophet. But I cannot be certain at this point, and I'm not willing to spend more money on Ads if potentially I will miss sales.
If Peter Yoon is out there with some insight, or anyone can provide some feedback on their experiences with the affiliate spy method, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance
-the Vossman
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