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Clickbank Mystery....sales not coming in!

by marktheonlinesurfer
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Hello fellow warriors,

I've manged to successfully set up a landing page which does a great "pre-sell" to a clickbank product. This ha been converting quite well for me. On average I would get 1 sale a day, sometimes 2-3. All the traffic coming to my landing page is organic. I'm averaging around $500 a week in profit.

Now something very odd happened. Over the course of the last week I stopped getting sales. I am still getting hoplinks, in fact even more hoplinks than before but NO SALES!

I know this product converts as EVERYDAY for the last 45 days I been getting at least 1 sale. The conversion rate seems to be set in stone. And the traffic is targeted coming in. It is the same exact traffic that was coming in when I was making the sales.

Any idea what is happening?

Thanks,

Mark
#clickbank #coming #mysterysales
  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    What product are you pushing? Has anything changed at the vendors end?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ruth P
    I would check carefully to see if something's changed. It could be something on the sales page, or could it be something getting in the way of your sale such as an email newsletter sign up? If you can't figure it out I would definitely contact the vendor, they should be able to shed some light on it.
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    • Profile picture of the author affilcrazy
      As the others have mentioned just check everything...your outgoing links, vendor's sales page, etc.

      I had the exact same scenario last year - I was regularly getting hops for a product, averaged about 3-5 sales a day...and then suddenly, nothing!

      I actually left it for a week or so, and finally went to the vendor's sales page to discover the product had been pulled from the marketplace. It was kind of weird as I was still having hops show up in my analytics, but the vendor, in their wisdom, had got rid of the product without informing their affiliates. Go figure!

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  • Profile picture of the author marktheonlinesurfer
    Thanks guys- how do you contact a vendor on clickbank?
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    • Profile picture of the author affilcrazy
      Originally Posted by marktheonlinesurfer View Post

      Thanks guys- how do you contact a vendor on clickbank?
      Have a scan of the sales page - either somewhere at the top of the page will be a contact us button...or at the bottom of the page.

      If you can't find a "contact us" section, check out their affiliates page for further info. With a fair few products on CB (or any product for that matter) when you sign up as an affiliate, you will need to subscribe to the "affiliate's newsletter", so you should receive regular emails, and thus a contact email address.

      HTH

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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by marktheonlinesurfer View Post

      how do you contact a vendor on clickbank?
      If there's no way of doing so from the sales page and/or affiliate page, sending an email addressed to "admin" at theirdomain.com, with copies to "info" and "sales" and "support" at theirdomain.com usually does the trick. At least one of those should get through.

      Remember that vendors can't contact all their affiliates unilaterally, if "something happens", because of Clickbank's affiliate anonymity principle.

      If you're still having problems after that, it can be worth opening a new affiliate account (which is free), changing your hoplinks and seeing whether that suddenly remedies the situation, as it can do, sometimes. It's a work-up to have to do it, of course, but it can save a lot of money, too. Good luck.

      (Haven't you got an email address for the vendor from when you either got a review copy or bought the product through your own affiliate-link to see what it was actually like, before promoting it in the first place? Don't answer that!).
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      • Profile picture of the author marktheonlinesurfer
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post


        If you're still having problems after that, it can be worth opening a new affiliate account (which is free), changing your hoplinks and seeing whether that suddenly remedies the situation, as it can do, sometimes. It's a work-up to have to do it, of course, but it can save a lot of money, too. Good luck.
        Thanks Alexa very helpful- I don't get it are you saying sometimes if you open a NEW clickbank account you might get affiliate commissions that were supposed to go to you?

        How come? I don't get that.
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        • Profile picture of the author affilcrazy
          Originally Posted by marktheonlinesurfer View Post

          if you open a NEW clickbank account you might get affiliate commissions that were supposed to go to you?

          How come? I don't get that.
          I'm not a believer in the "Clickbank Conspiracy Theory", but it is something that has been discussed many times before. For me, I haven't actively promoted any of my Clickbank websites for approximately a year and a half, bit I still make sales on a daily basis.

          I found this old thread http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ing-again.html where Omar explained his scenario. I believe there are at least 10-15 threads from late 2009/ early 2010 discussing the possible "conspiracy". As I say, I'm not a believer, and I've never opened a new account, but many people have reported sales "starting up again" once they open a new CB account

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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by marktheonlinesurfer View Post

          Thanks Alexa very helpful- I don't get it are you saying sometimes if you open a NEW clickbank account you might get affiliate commissions that were supposed to go to you?

          How come? I don't get that.
          Yes; I'm saying exactly that. I don't know why, either, but many people have found that it suddenly and dramatically resolves the problem. One possibility is perhaps that there's been an affiliate-tracking problem on one account which doesn't arise on another.

          The comments here and here are relevant.

          Many people have done this and found it extremely and immediately beneficial. Including some of my article-writing clients, last year. One had an average of 10+ sales per day which suddenly and dramatically disappeared; on opening a new account and replacing all the hoplinks, his sales promptly picked up from their totally unaccountable zero to 10/11 per day, on average, again. This has happened to too many people here and elsewhere for it to be coincidence: I remember a year or so ago seeing many threads here in which many Warriors reported exactly the same. However much Clickbank apologists like to dismiss it as "silly" and "illogical", it's worth trying.
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