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An idea to test clickbank problems...

by Chris Thompson
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I have an idea that I am considering implementing.

Currently my product is on ClickBank. Conversions are bad and it may well be due to CB card abandonment as you guys are all suggesting on various threads.

I am considering creating a copy of my sales page and order page.

Instead of just .com I'd create .com/audio-course
instead of .com/order I would create .com/order-paypal

I would change the "add to cart" button to direct to PayPal instead of Clickbank.

I would then change all of my PPC adds to go to the NEW sales page.

The reason I can't just change my existing sales page is that I am on ClickBank so any affiliates who are promoting my product (even though I haven't recruited any, I am in the marketplace) would get screwed, and that is not fair.

I'd compare my prior conversion rate to the new rate.

Has anyone done this?
#clickbank #idea #problems
  • Profile picture of the author greenovni
    I think if you are in the position of testing, do so. There are a ton of us out there trying to figure out the best way to get over this clickbank situation. A lot of affiliates are having cookie problems where their affiliate id is not being parsed by clickbank thus showing [affiliate=none] and the affiliate not being credited with their commissions.

    I am doing my own tests about the [affiliate=none] problem going as far as cookie stuffing my own page to see if it can get over the CB cookie problem until they resolve their problems... so far the cookie stuffing method looks promising.

    You should test your CB sales vs Paypal sales and let us all know what you find.
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    • Profile picture of the author kenkos68
      It IS a cookie problem.

      What a way to make my first post. I am basically a lurker newbie who was *just* about to start article marketing, promoting Clickbank products, until the affiliate link problem showed up.

      I made up a simple php script using curl and setting VERBOSE mode. What was happening is that clickbank was trying to SET a p=XXXXX... cookie from the domain JGHO.COM. If you initially had a valid cookie from the domain CLICKBANK.NET, and then accessed a hop link again, your browser would send in the original request with the valid cookie. Clickbank would respond with a p=XXXXX... cookie with the domain tagged as JGHO.COM. It is possible that the web browsers were making this replacement, even though they shouldn't. If I started with a clean cookie file, and only clicked one hoplink, everything seemed to work fine ending at the checkout page. The problem happens with there is a CLICKBANK.NET cookie already set and you access another cookie.

      I still see it happening on a few hoplinks.

      -Ken
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    Why does Clickbank even need to use cookies? Why don't they just track the IP address of the customer, along with the affiliate ID, and then when a sale is made, pay the most recent affilate who drove traffic to the site?

    since hops go through clickbank.net first, why can't they just intervene and hold hops in their own database?
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    • Profile picture of the author kenkos68
      Why does Clickbank even need to use cookies? Why don't they just track the IP address of the customer, along with the affiliate ID, and then when a sale is made, pay the most recent affilate who drove traffic to the site?
      IP address can change. Many people may access behind a proxy server or NAT router that pools addresses.

      -Ken
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    They ought to at least be able to track this internally where customers buy within the same session though ... and it would work in a LOT of cases, assisting the cookie method.
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