Am I Loseing a lot of sales

[Wealthyclark]

I've been promoting clickbank products, cloaking the links with my own easy to remember domains so if the visitor leaves, there is a small chance that if he/she wants to buy later they will remember my url and return to my link to make the purchase.

My question is:

When merchants that have email capture set into play make a sale through the email they captured from the visitor I sent, will I get paid for it or is it just a lost sale?

[radhika]

If cookie is properly set, then you will get commission for the sale. (unless the visitor clicks on another affiliate link for same product.)

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[Wealthyclark]

Originally Posted by radhika

If cookie is properly set, then you will get commission for the sale. (unless the visitor clicks on another affiliate link for same product.)

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Thanks for the response!

Is there anyway to know if the cookies are set properly before decieding to become an affiliate of a particular merchant?

[radhika]

Cookie set up depends on things like -

* visitor browser is cookie enabled or not. If he disabled cookie set up on his computer, then no cookiw will be set up.

* he deletes the cookies after a while. Sometime to clear cache, people clear up temp files, browser cookies. This will delete the cookie.

* cookie expiration. Some affiliate programs offer commission only certain period. Ex: only 3 months. After 3 months the cookie will be deleted on visitor computer. (Not sure how long clickbank cookie will be active.)

* Sometimes people change affiliate link(s), especially CB links and buy from their affiliate link.

Apart from all above drawbacks, still affiliates make money. So just hope for good and promote.

Test it on your computer to see the clickbank setting up the cookie or not. Delete cookies > click on your CB affiliate link > check cookies folder to see for CB cookie text file.

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[sdcast]

hi,

since you have a domain name, i'm assuming you have hosting.
i know it's not necessarily the case, because you can mask links
without having hosting.

if you have hosting,
why not create your own squeeze page, in this way, you can still send them to the merchants sales page, plus capture the emails for yourself, to market to them again later with the same product, or with some other related product. of course you can set this up through an external autoresponder, such as get response or aweber, or any reliable service.

good luck to you

[waihon]

Originally Posted by Wealthyclark

Is there anyway to know if the cookies are set properly before decieding to become an affiliate of a particular merchant?

For products hosted with ClickBank, you may test out your affiliate link, click to the order/payment page, scroll down to the bottom, and you'll see something like [affiliate = xxxxx].

If the cookie was being set correctly, "xxxxx" mentioned above would be your ClickBank ID.