Anyone else seeing a HUGE drop in clickbank sales?

It was for a weight loss product. Normally converts at around 2%. However, the last few days, I'm not even seeing order form impressions from it. Not one single impression or sale. I'm just showing 543 hops and that's it. Something just seems off to me about it.

I agree with this statement. continuing one product may not be the right idea throughout the year.

I don't think the problem is with clickbank, a lot of things can go wrong which has nothing to do with clickbank. Have you questioned your articles, salespage, product you are promoting, traffic, ctr and cv?

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I have been monitoring CB analytics for the past six months and the CB index has steadily dropped like a rock off a cliff. The drop corresponds to the notorious google panda update a few months ago where those article marketing sites disappeared from the g's search rankings.

I am also experiencing this. I usualyl get ~80 hops a day, yet i have apparantly had NO hops in the last 48 hours despite my sites all ranking and nothing changing.

Please write back to tell us what clickbank are saying

Jon

That may be true for the OP.

However, for the last few days there has definitely been something big going on with clickbank's reporting for many, many people.

Including me!

Yes, there is ALWAYS an issue with CB reporting. But the primary complaints are based on i.) their usual approx 3 hour lag, and ii.) that their updates will often stop for upwards of a day at a time.

This issue which we are talking about is new. Why? Because the "Data Last Updated" is normal or 'correct' (about 3 hours behind the current timestamp), however, all 'data' (i.e. hops, transactions etc.) are showing ZERO. Which is just NOT possible no matter what rationale is suggested.

Waiting to hear back from CB...

Thanks for this... I also have a ticket in but haven't heard back. I feel like an idiot now though...

Sales are still coming in though so, no worries.

The hops will show up in analytics once they're done with the upgrade. If you click on one of your links and check and make sure that all is good in the hood that hop will show up in analytics later... I appreciate you trying to make me feel better but that one was definitely my bad.

I've been doing this stuff for a bit and when the kiddies go back to school sales do tend to drop... usually at the beginning of the summer and the end of the summer.

Look at your overall stats. I usually look at monthly stats and three month averages. I still check daily stuff with some sort of OCD regularity but the 3 month when compared to my one month is usually what tells me if I'm doing something right or "not so right".

I also encourage you to check out other affiliate programs, for sure. Eggs... basket... you know...

I have never seen a site update that took a week to role out.

It makes me curious what the end result will be.

Honestly, I don't think this is anything to be concerned about. I just had an above average week followed by a pretty crummy week. It's not the first time this has happened and it won't be the last.

Cb-analytics has shown a downward trend in overall Clickbank sales for quite awhile now, but if you extend the graph out and look at things over the last 3 years, it looks pretty typical. There seems to be a big dip toward the end of the year and then things really skyrocket around the first of the new year. Overall, Clickbank sales have increased year after year.

There's a lot of factors that play into this and it depends on the niches you're in as well. But I would expect people to spend more on physical type products than they would on ebooks as it gets closer to Halloween and Christmas.

So, like everyone, I do seem to be seeing the same fluctuations/drops in sales while still having consistent traffic, but I personally don't think it's anything out of the ordinary.

And, yes, hops weren't showing for a few days even though the "last time updated" was normal. Again, it's pretty typical for there to be delays/issues with the tracking updates, but they always come back to normal. Mine are showing again now from the last few days.