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How Do You Normally React To The Unexplainable Drop In Clickbank Sales?

by ChadOath
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For the past 2 months, I've been getting a consistent 7-11 sales per day for my (Clickbank vendor) site through PPC traffic. All of a sudden, BAM. No sales yet for an entire WEEK. Traffic is the same. Checked hoplink analytics, everything normal. Checked Google analytics, everything normal. I even checked my server logs to see if I was hacked. LOL

Do I pause my PPC campaign until I figure out what's going on? Do I ride it out and hope maybe to get a cluster of sales that come in and even things out? What would/do you normally do in this situation?
#clickbank #drop #react #sales #unexplainable
  • Profile picture of the author Michael Curran Smith
    I would pause the campaign, you're bleeding money. Could be a cookie issue, CB sometimes has issues.
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    • Profile picture of the author ryannull
      Originally Posted by Michael Curran Smith View Post

      I would pause the campaign, you're bleeding money. Could be a cookie issue, CB sometimes has issues.
      I agree with this.

      I would contact Clickbank and let them know the trouble you are having. You could also contact other affiliates that use that vendor and see if they are having issues too. It could be Clickbank or the vendor itself. There could be so many reasons. Pause your campaign until you can figure it out.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by ChadOath View Post

        Do I pause my PPC campaign until I figure out what's going on?
        I would, definitely.

        Originally Posted by ChadOath View Post

        Do I ride it out
        I wouldn't: you're losing money consistently at the moment. To go from 7 - 11 daily sales for many weeks to a consistent 0 every day for a week is significant. I don't think it's just "unlucky". This has all the hallmarks of a problem at ClickBank's end. These things do occasionally happen.

        Originally Posted by ryannull View Post

        You could also contact other affiliates that use that vendor and ...
        The OP is the vendor, Ryan.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    I usually go and test my traffic sources, changing banner styles, and ppc ad text.
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    Year in and year out - seems like this thread topic is always popping up. I think it is a perpetual ClickBank problem.

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    • Profile picture of the author Dano1981
      Yeah,,

      I've also read of numerous similar issues over the years with CB. I almost

      want to surmise as many have, that accounts at times simply get screwed
      up. Whether it's a problem in their programming or the translations in
      their switch - but I've read many an affiliate marketer that simply created a new
      account, and "Wah la!" suddenly the issue resolved itself...
      (I do not recall the effect of creating a new link)

      I've spoken with CB myself, and verified they have no prob with multiple
      accounts - so, just an FYI

      My two cents - there! Go buy yourself a house!


      Kindwater is right - it seems to be an "on again - off again" issue for them.
      Danni~

      Just noticed you're a vendor - my bad. Have no idea when it comes to vendors
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      • Profile picture of the author Jon Patrick
        Have you set up tracking on your "Thank You" page to check whether or not there are sales happening (which you simply aren't being credited for)? In Google Analytics, you can set it up as a "goal" and track how many times that goal is reached each day - how many people land on your "Thank You" page.

        If you've got people landing on your "Thank You" page but you're not getting credited for the sales, then there's a big problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Are your Clickbank affiliates getting sales for your product, or has that stopped too?
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