Clickbank hop ID visible?

[MemberWing]

Hi guys,
I dont use clickbank but one of my clients asked how to make sure that her clickbank page won't show this thingy attached to URL -> ?hop=blah123
?
I know framing is against TOS - so whats' legitimate ways to avoid it?

Gleb

[Rhett]

Originally Posted by MemberWing

Hi guys,
I dont use clickbank but one of my clients asked how to make sure that her clickbank page won't show this thingy attached to URL -> ?hop=blah123
?
I know framing is against TOS - so whats' legitimate ways to avoid it?

Gleb

I'm a little confused...it looks like you have an affiliate link cloaker available in your sig...does it not work for CB affiliates?

[Amitywill]

Originally Posted by Rhett

I'm a little confused...it looks like you have an affiliate link cloaker available in your sig...does it not work for CB affiliates?

I think he means when you visit a sales page the url says domain.com/aff-link
and everyone is able to see your clickbank id.

The only way I know of how to hide it is by cloaking your own domain
with the sales page.

Will

[MemberWing]

I'm a little confused...it looks like you have an affiliate link cloaker available in your sig...does it not work for CB affiliates?

It give you tools to hide affiliate links and make redirects google-safe on your local pages. Aflinker doesn't do framing for destination URL's. That would be misservice to affiliates as that is against TOS, will cause detection, loss of commissions and account termination. That's consensus.

Gleb

[zapseo]

I believe that if someone clicks your link, you can legitimately (even within CB's TOS) "stuff the cookie" -- after all, they HAVE clicked on your link, so would land on the page. The only thing you do is pre-stuff the cookie so you don't end up with the affiliate id in the URL.

There are affliate link cloaking softwares that do this.

Live JoyFully!

Judy

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by MemberWing

I dont use clickbank but one of my clients asked how to make sure that her clickbank page won't show this thingy attached to URL -> ?hop=blah123
?
I know framing is against TOS - so whats' legitimate ways to avoid it?

The one I use (for every CB product I promote) is to buy a dot-info domain-name ($1 at GoDaddy) and forward it with masking to my hoplink. I do that because I don't understand the more difficult ways that require you to know what "php" and "HTML" and all this technical stuff is.

[MemberWing]

The one I use (for every CB product I promote) is to buy a dot-info domain-name ($1 at GoDaddy) and forward it with masking to my hoplink...

Yes, but once person ended up into the destination salesletter - affiliate's hop ID is still visible at browser address bar?

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by MemberWing

Yes, but once person ended up into the destination salesletter - affiliate's hop ID is still visible at browser address bar?

No, it isn't. You forward "with masking". Your own domain-name is all anyone can see in their browser.

On the order page, after the sales page, your affiliate ID will be shown at the bottom, but there isn't a way to get paid without that appearing (and sometimes it's difficult enough even when it does ).

[MemberWing]

Thanks Alexa,
I sent a link to this thread to the client - hopefully she'll be able to pick up few ideas.
Gleb

[Amfire]

I believe some CB vendors do not allow this.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

No, it isn't. You forward "with masking". Your own domain-name is all anyone can see in their browser.

On the order page, after the sales page, your affiliate ID will be shown at the bottom, but there isn't a way to get paid without that appearing (and sometimes it's difficult enough even when it does ).

[Brandon Tanner]

Originally Posted by MemberWing

Hi guys,
I dont use clickbank but one of my clients asked how to make sure that her clickbank page won't show this thingy attached to URL -> ?hop=blah123
?
I know framing is against TOS - so whats' legitimate ways to avoid it?

Gleb

Hi Gleb,

This is easy to do with a little bit of Javascript. All she has to do is insert the following code into the <head> section of her webpage, and replace "www.yourwebsite.com" with the actual URL of her webpage...

<script type="text/javascript">
var yourdomain="http://www.yourwebsite.com";
var url=top.location.toString();
if(url.indexOf('hop')>-1){
   top.location.href=yourdomain;
}
</script> 

Basically what it does is check to see if "hop" is found in anywhere in the URL in the address bar from an incoming link, and if so, it changes what is displayed in the address bar to the regular website URL.

I'm surprised more CB vendors don't do this, as it most definitely reduces commission theft.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Amfire

I believe some CB vendors do not allow this.

I believe that you're thinking of the much rarer and entirely different situation in which affiliates bypass the vendor's sales page, substituting their own, from which they then link directly to the vendor's order page. This isn't what we're discussing here at all (but it's perfectly true that you do need the vendor's permission to do that).

[talfighel]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

The one I use (for every CB product I promote) is to buy a dot-info domain-name ($1 at GoDaddy) and forward it with masking to my hoplink. I do that because I don't understand the more difficult ways that require you to know what "php" and "HTML" and all this technical stuff is.

Good advice Alexa. Thanks for sharing.
Tal