Check your affiliate link if you are promoting Strip The Fat

[Bryan Zimmerman]

Here's a heads up if anyone is promoting Strip The Fat in the weight loss niche. When you get to the purchase page look at the bottom for you ID. I just did and it is not showing up from my redirect. Just to make sure I did not screw up anywhere I pasted the hop link into the browser and tried it again and still on the sales page it said affiliate=none.

I took it one step further and created a whole new hoplink at click bank and then tested that link in IE and Firefox just to see if it would make a difference, it did not. So if your promoting that program I would take a look to make sure you are getting paid.

[Chris Lockwood]

If you PM me their vendor nickname, I'll see if my links work for it.

[Richard Daniels]

I just checked an affiliate link which promotes Strip The Fat...

The affiliate ID showed up on the CB order page. However, there were no sales today of strip the fat, and normally I get a handful when I send out this email.

One day does not make a trend, so I'll keep an eye on things for this merchant in the next promotion.

[Seattle Mike]

My ID isn't making it to the order page either. Nice catch, BZ.

[HDRider]

Well, Out of curiosity, since I never promoted the product, I made a hoplink and my clickbank name shows in the address bar, but... went to order and I get [affiliate = none]

Tried it 5 times, same result

[David McGimpsey]

It's not just this product, I've tried this with various products because my hoplink counts have suddenly nose-dived over the last few days.

I noticed yesterday and today hoplinks are not always working correctly. There seem to be two scenarios:

1. hop=yourid displays in the address bar but affiliate=none on the order page

2. hop=yourid displays in the address bar and correct on order page. However, if you then hop with a different affiliate id it still shows the original affiliate id on the order page. So in this scenario, the last affiliate is not getting credit.

This is using ie7

[HDRider]

Interesting, I tried it 5 times in each

5 times with IE worked every time
5 Times with Firefox = Affiliate none

[Paul M]

I've just tried my hoplinks for products, google nemisis & affiliate elite.
There showing up in the browser [firefox], but the payment page says
affiliate=none.

Somethings wrong here, I think you need to change the thread name
to check all your clickbank affiliate links.

-paul

[nursewriter]

Could it be that we have just discovered the problem that has caused everyone to have a drop in sales in the last few days?

[HDRider]

We have a Major problem here

I just checked other clickbank products I AM Promoting and I get [affiliate = none]

Tested 3 different products and same results

Wow...

[Bryan Zimmerman]

Originally Posted by HDRider

Interesting, I tried it 5 times in each

5 times with IE worked every time
5 Times with Firefox = Affiliate none

Something is definately not right. I'm still using IE6 and another computer with IE7. All my other products showed up on the sales page but that one. But with the strip the fat I tried it with both IE6 and 7 and firefox and got a big zero. I've had a good amount of hops today but I wonder how many did not show up. Now it's going on with other products as well........ Out of all of us here and everywhere else there is a **** load of money going into somebodys pocket that it shouldn't be. I really wonder how often this happens and how much money goes where it should not. Time to blow up clickbanks email or phone.

[Allen Graves]

I just checked on a few pet products that I promote and my ID shows up on the sales page. No issues (IE7). Also, I have had a few affiliates make sales for me today for my one and only clickbank product.

AL

[DJPumpsta]

Yep same thing is happening with me. IE works fine.. firefox doesn't :S

[Mike Bogowski]

I noticed this last week and put it down to a small glitch.

Today everything is OK for me (after checking) but all these recent posts have me really worried.

Im fast losing faith in Clickbank

[YoYoPro]

This infuriates me... no wonder my sales have literally taken a dump in the recent past.

I thought everything was fine because I was checking it in firefox and it was showing up every time.... so I decide to pull up chrome and test it out and lo and behold affiliate = none.

I normally average a few sales a week of fat loss 4 idiots and the magic of making up and lately my sales have TANKED....

Basically the 4 hours a night I put in to writing articles and submitting them are a waste since i'm not getting any credit for my sales.

I'm going to be e-mailing them right away but i'm sure i'll get a nice response saying that they checked through my account and it's fine. I'd love to make a camtasia video of me going through all my hoplinks and showing them the end result.

[Paul M]

Just checked the exact same links in IE an they work fine.

Does this also mean we will be losing sales from everyone using firefox?


-paul

[David McGimpsey]

It seems to be intermittant. My links are operating fine now- the same thing happened yesterday.

[HDRider]

Update:

I cleared my cookies and temp files and the products I am promoting are working now in IE and Firefox, they were not a few min. ago

Strip the fat is still not working in Firefox

Seems like after I visited strip the fat my links to other clickbank products were not working on the checkout page,

Something fishy is going on here...

[Bryan Zimmerman]

Originally Posted by p1a1u1l1

Just checked the exact same links in IE an they work fine.

Does this also mean we will be losing sales from everyone using firefox?


-paul

If you want to pm me a site to check I will run it through firefox on my end and see if it says none on the sales page.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by bzimm

If you want to pm me a site to check I will run it through firefox on my end and see if it says none on the sales page.

I've already run them through firefox and there all showing affiliate=none.

-paul

[Bryan Zimmerman]

Originally Posted by David McGimpsey

It seems to be intermittant. My links are operating fine now- the same thing happened yesterday.

I don't think that it should be happening at all. It could be at that intermittant time that you could be making a sale. Can you imagine how much money is not going where it supposed to at any given time of day when this happens? The time you put into everything and then the money goes in someone elses pocket should not happen.

I know there isn't much we can do about it besides blow up their email and phone but it still is crap!

[Joe Russell]

I also noticed this yesterday when searching for new products to promote. I found three...almost in a row...that showed the hoplink in the address bar but not on the payment page.

Joe Russell

[David McGimpsey]

Originally Posted by bzimm

I don't think that it should be happening at all. It could be at that intermittant time that you could be making a sale. Can you imagine how much money is not going where it supposed to at any given time of day when this happens? The time you put into everything and then the money goes in someone elses pocket should not happen.

I know there isn't much we can do about it besides blow up their email and phone but it still is crap!

I have sent Clickbank a query detailing the problem with a link to this thread.

I think anyone that has experienced this issue should do the same (the more queries they get about this the more likely they are to take it seriously).

[Bryan Zimmerman]

Originally Posted by David McGimpsey

I have sent Clickbank a query detailing the problem with a link to this thread.

I think anyone that has experienced this issue should do the same (the more queries they get about this the more likely they are to take it seriously).

I agree, we should all send a message to them. Maybe....just maybe......we might get some attention.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Well, after the email that I just sent...I may no longer be allowed to promote ClickBank products lol

I tested 5 different products in firefox and guess what? Not a single hoplink showed up!

I did test earlier and hoplinks were showing, so I'm not real sure what is going on, but one thing is for certain....

I'm more than a little bit pissed off right now.

[Chris Lockwood]

I just tried a link that bzimm PMed me with my affiliate id and it worked fine on that site using Firefox 3 on Vista. Also looked at the code, and the payment link is coded correctly, no tricks.

So I'm not sure if you all have spyware or browser issues or this is intermittent or the site was fixed in the past couple hours or what, but it IS working for me as of right now.

Edit: tried again with another aff id and that also worked as it should. Maybe you all need to get Vista?

[Ganceann]

I noted a similar experience in Firefox browser when I was reading a thread on DP forums and decided to check my hoplinks... only worked 20% of the time... so my thoughts were that it could be some Firefox issue with clickbank tracking (could it be 1st party vs 3rd party cookie issue where the latest firefox browser is counting all cookies as 3rd party instead of 1st party like they should be?).

I also sent a query to CB asking why my hoplinks only worked 20% of the time... it is especially bad when sending PPC traffic if it only works 20% of the time (and then what if it only works 1 in 5 pageviews for each unique visitor? it would mean someone would need to click on our hoplink 5 times before we would get credit for a sale...

[Alex Sol]

I tried with firefox - and it works well.

[Bryan Zimmerman]

Originally Posted by Ganceann

I noted a similar experience in Firefox browser when I was reading a thread on DP forums and decided to check my hoplinks... only worked 20% of the time... so my thoughts were that it could be some Firefox issue with clickbank tracking (could it be 1st party vs 3rd party cookie issue where the latest firefox browser is counting all cookies as 3rd party instead of 1st party like they should be?).

I also sent a query to CB asking why my hoplinks only worked 20% of the time... it is especially bad when sending PPC traffic if it only works 20% of the time (and then what if it only works 1 in 5 pageviews for each unique visitor? it would mean someone would need to click on our hoplink 5 times before we would get credit for a sale...

It's not just with firefox though. I mainly use IE and thats where I was having the problem. Although I did check it in firefox and it did not work there either.

[rondo]

I tried an hour ago with both IE7 and Firefox - it didn't show my ID
Tried again now and it worked fine.
Weird.

Andrew

[rosetrees]

Just tried it with a product I promote. IE7 affilliate = myID, FF & Chrome affiliate = none

Edit: using Vista

[Gail Sober]

I checked four sites, including the OP site.

Two had the correct affiliate id
Two had "none"

This is with IE7

[David McGimpsey]

I urge anyone who has experienced this to contact Clickbank with details. YoYoPro even mentioned making a video of this occuring, which is a great idea.

We may not have missed out on any commissions, we may have missed out on hundreds... We'll never know. But, Clickbank needs to know we have noticed a problem.

[W.P. Allen]

This is OUTRAGEOUS!

I just checked 3 of my top sites and my hoplinks are NOT showing on the purchase page. My sales have dropped considerably during the past several months and I thought it was a result of the lousy economy....

This is insanity!

Has all my work in the past 6 months gone to waste? How much money have I lost in the last two months? HOW MUCH????!!!!

I can't believe this. I make my money as an affiliate...

Class action lawsuit anyone?

[lakeview]

I just checked about 8 links with IE7 and Firefox. All are showing my affiliate ID, but something strange happened when using IE7. I got an info bar stating:

"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors."

I'm sure this would be a deterrent for some people for completing a purchase.

Angela

[rosetrees]

Just tried again on a different product on a different site in IE7. Affilliate = none. No wonder I'm not getting any affiliate commissions, just sales of my own products.

Bzimm - you've really started something here. CB can't ignore you now. Thanks for spotting this.

[W.P. Allen]

This is serious. I just went through and found 10 more products I'm promoting where my hoplink was not on the purchase page.

It makes me a little more than queezy when I think of all the time and money I've put into building these affiliate sites.

[Gail Sober]

Need to start compiling a list of sites with this issue. It may be a shady webmaster issue more than a clickbank tracking issue.

The op site is pulling a lot of .js files

They could be redirecting their landing pages with their default codes which would display "none".

They could even have this function randomized so sometimes it works correctly and others it doesn't, a "skim" feature.

There's a multitude of ways to shave sales without it being Clickbanks tracking system.

It would help if people could post the actual vendor id's to see if any patterns appear.

[Tyler Boshears]

This is ridiculous. Hope they figure out what's going on.

[Gary McCaffrey]

I just posted this in another thread:

"Two strange clickbank occurrences today.

1. One of my products that practically never makes a sale thats not through an affiliate made 2 non affiliate sales.

2. I offered a bonus package for another product and have had buyers forward me their receipt to get the bonus but I haven't received credit for the sale.

So it would seem like somethings up."



Here's camtasia showing whats happening:

Created by Camtasia Studio 4

[zenmagic]

I have similar problems with Clickbank as well. The products that I promote (2 or 3 of them) in magic, hypnosis and IM niche shows the [affiliate=none] when I visit the order page. Here are some of the products btw:

http://YOURID.mentalism.hop.clickbank.net
http://YOURID.dohypnosis.hop.clickbank.net
http://YOURID.forcemoney.hop.clickbank.net

Is there anyone here who has sent complaint to Clickbank about this issue? If it continues like this, I would never promote Clickbank products anymore. Imagine the numbers of sales that we lost just because of this problem.

Felix

[YoYoPro]

Tested 3 random vendors....

1 out of 3 worked... It's on Google Chrome and you can see me checking to make sure cookies are enabled at the beginning of the video. I'm running Vista.

Created by Camtasia Studio 6

[Gary McCaffrey]

I contacted them and linked to that camtasia video showing whats happening.

[Dixiebelle]

I sure am glad someone discovered this. I have been promoting 2 Clickbank products for 3 months. At first I was getting some sales, but figured it would grow over time. Then about 3 weeks ago, there was nothing. I thought it was just the ecomomy or the elections coming up that was causing the slow down.

I just checked my 2 products and mine also say affiliate=none. It looks like Clickbank may have been collecting a lot of money and not paying affiliates. I received hits, but I don't know how I can prove that I received sales.

I am calling my lawyer first thing tomorrow morning to get him to write a letter or inquiry for me. At least, it will get their attention.

Hope this gets straightened out soon. I don't like the thought of working for nothing. I will report back when I have heard something positive.

Dixie

[rosetrees]

Just tried it again for 2 products in all three browser (IE,FF<Chrome) and all ok. I wonder if they've fixed it. If so, do you think someone from CB will post on here?

Originally Posted by Dixiebelle

I am calling my lawyer first thing tomorrow morning to get him to write a letter or inquiry for me.

Now that just illustrates the difference between the Americans and the Brits, doesn't it

[NinjaReports]

I have clickbank affiliate sites in a lot of niches, and most of my affiliate links are working, except for Fat Loss 4 Idiots and a lot of yeast infection related products. Burn The Fat still seems to work. I'm not sure about other related products.

When these clickbank threads first came up, I didn't believe them but this proves beyond any doubt that clickbank is having problems. Really unfortunate since I have been with clickbank for ages and they have always come across as a very reputable affiliate network. Now that these problems are out in the open though I guess they are going to do something about it.

[shab]

well im not surprised. economy is bad and they needed the money badly so they steal your commissions for themselves.

[Dixiebelle]

Originally Posted by rosetrees

Just tried it again for 2 products in all three browser (IE,FF<Chrome) and all ok. I wonder if they've fixed it. If so, do you think someone from CB will post on here?



Now that just illustrates the difference between the Americans and the Brits, doesn't it

Yes, it sure does. We take action!!!

[Kiwigal]

I checked my links yesterday and found this problem, thought I was the only one or maybe I had done something wrong. Clickbank could possibly owe a lot of people a lot of money.

[Paul M]

This morning I have just cleared my own cookies and all my
affiliate links for different products work fine now in IE and FF.

I will check again during the day to see if it was just my cookies
or if it's a clickbank problem, I will keep everyone updated.

I suggest everyone clears there cookies and re-tests.


-paul