Have someone been stealing my clickbank checks for 6 months?

by Challe77

Posted: 15 years ago 11 replies

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I might have been a victim of some of the clickbank problems I´ve been reading about here.
I have gotten a high number of hops on a good clickbank product, for example I´ve gotten
400 hops with NO sales and another person has gotten 3-4 sales with hops below 100.

This led me to believe that there most be something wrong with my clickbank account so I´ve started a new one and I´ll see if anything changes...

But in that case who have been stealing my clickbank commisions?

I´ve been having some spyware that I cant get rid of and I havent cloaked my links, should I?

If I indeed have been hijacked somehow ( or I might simply be having bad luck in sales?

how can I protect myself from this again?

Sincerely
Karl

PS. think I´m gonna install vista and get rid of all the junk that´s cloggin up my computer now

#checks #clickbank #months #stealing

netstrife 15 years ago

If your own computer is infected, I don't see how that would have any effect on how many sales you're being credited for. People click your affiliate link on your site, buy the product on THEIR computer etc.

There are still a few adware programs known to replace CB affiliate codes, Zango being one of them.
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- RDGatchel 15 years ago
  
  Karl ...
  
  Any spyware issues on YOUR computer shouldn't cause any problems with your clickbank links on OTHER computers.
  
  I have a couple of questions:
  
  (1) HOW are you promoting the Clickbank product? A website? Email? Blog? Just curious and we may be able to figure out more about the situation by how you are promoting.
  
  (2) What MARKET are you targeting. In other words, what kinds of visitors are you sending via the Clickbank hoplink?
  
  Assuming that there is nothing nefarious about people stealing your Clickbank commissions (which they can if they KNOW what they are doing ... and if you don't use some kind of link cloaking etc) ... I'm going to assume that your lack of conversion COULD POSSIBLY be lead quality.
  
  Let's face it ...
  
  You could send TONS of "non qualified" leads to a clickbank product (or ANY product for that matter) and your conversion is going to be awful!
  
  BUT ...
  
  If you send a small amount of HIGHLY qualified leads to the same offer and get a TON of them to buy! It's not about HOW MANY leads but what KIND of leads / prospects are going to see the Clickbank product!
  
  For example: If you are sending a large generic list to a golf product ... it's just not going to work. But if you send a small list of avid golfers to the same product you should get a LOT more sales!
  
  Your question is a good one, and your answers / feedback may reveal the cause of the situation.
  
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Hamida Harland

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Challe77

400 hops isn't actually a huge amount - just enough to tell you that maybe that particular product isn't converting for you. Just because someone else is getting 3-4 sales with hops below 100 doesn't mean you will. Especially if it's not the same product and/or you're using different marketing techniques.

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ryanman 15 years ago

It can't exactly be clickbank. Spybot has blacklisted clickbank and that might be one of the reasons.
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Challe77

15 years ago

Well, I´ve been following Jeremy´s 30 day video cource and pretty much been following and duplicating his exact steps.

Of course there can be variations but if we are doing the same kind of promoting and getting the same type of visitors these stats sure look strange:

him: 75 visitors 3-4 sales and increasing
me:400 visisors 0 sales

Don´t you agree?

Anyway I´ve opended a new account and changed the hoplink id´s.
So well see what happens...

/Karl

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Ian25 15 years ago

I think I have a similar problem.
I have 150 sign up subscribers -my sales letter with cloaked link to my clickbank products go out in my e mails from my autoresponder every 4 days.
150 sign ups But NO body is buying !!!
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Jeremy Kelsall

15 years ago

Karl,

Originally Posted by Challe77

Well, I´ve been following Jeremy´s 30 day video cource and pretty much been following and duplicating his exact steps.
him: 75 visitors 3-4 sales and increasing
me:400 visisors 0 sales

I'm not sure what niche you are promoting...is it the same one I am doing in the camp?

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ripsnorta2 15 years ago
Karl,

There are plenty of reasons other than Clickbank failures for you not getting sales.

I have gotten a high number of hops on a good clickbank product, for example I´ve gotten 400 hops with NO sales and another person has gotten 3-4 sales with hops below 100.

The aim you should have with your site is to pre-sell the product. Don't rely on the product website to do this, it might not actually be that much good. Also, your competitor may (probably) have better sales copy on his site than you have on yours. That alone could account for the discrepency in sales and is probably the likely explanation.

If your competitor is doing a really good job selling, it may even negate a poor sales page.

Don't forget the principle of Occam's Razor. The simplest explanation is likely the correct one.

What is more likely:
1. Clickbank which relies strongly on treating affiliates well, is ignoring the complaints, and is losing commissions on random accounts (ie. it's not a systemic error.) or,
2. The pre-sales pages on high-hop, low-converting sites are simply not effective for the market.
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Challe77 15 years ago

Hi, I was thinking that too since every time I visit my homepage, the affiliate links seems to load, so perhaps some hope are not hops...
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lexilexi 15 years ago

As a total experiment, once about a year ago I put up a run-of-network banner ad and sent over 26,000 hops to a clickbank product in 30 minutes. ( I had set the cap to $50 but it went to 26,000 clicks before I had a chance to turn the thing off!!!)

I didn't get any sales cos it was garbage worldwide traffic.

I know CB is working fine because every time one of my friends buys a product thru my aff link, the sale goes through.

So if you're worried about CB, get someone to buy a copy of the product through your aff link! If you don't get the comm, you know there's a problem.
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crystalq 15 years ago

You may have had 400 people click your hop links but were they targeted?

You might do better with adsense.
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