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Clickbank affiliate frustration!!!

by earlgray
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I have a domain I just use to forward to a clickbank affiliate I like. (I promote the site offline.)

You go to my domain and it takes you to the affiliate's sales page. It has my clickbank id in the address bar, so I know it's my hop link.

However, when you click the buy button, and scroll down to the bottom, the affiliate says "none."

I go in, get a new hop link, re-forward the domain and it works for about a day. The next day I check and again, "affiliate=none"

What's going on here? This is so frustrating!!!
#affiliate #clickbank #frustration
  • Profile picture of the author Matt Morgan
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  • Profile picture of the author grimace_86
    Have you tried it on another computer or browser?

    Im wondering if something is going on with the cookies like matt said
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  • Profile picture of the author earlgray
    Rawr!! It's still not working. I cleared my cache and cookies, tried from another browser, another computer. Same thing. I just changed it again a few hours ago and it worked right away. Now it's back to saying "none"
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  • Profile picture of the author surenpp
    if you are talking about deep English i can see your affiliate id when i scroll down the order page
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  • Profile picture of the author earlgray
    Thanks surenpp. I just reforwarded it an hour ago. I bet by the end of the day though, it'll be back to "none"

    Could this be the product owner himself doing this? Can he go in and change the id, as to take sales away from me?
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  • Profile picture of the author Raindance
    I've noticed something similar, but my problem was the other way around. I was trying to check how it looks without my id, and despite clearing the cache and cookies, it kept showing my id.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dragontech
    How about trying to get an affiliate ID from another product to see if it's because of the technical problems or that particular product's problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author Pindich
      It is because they don't encourage people buying from their own affiliate link. I get that some times but if you check it using a different ip address you will see that it carries your affiliate link. May be check it on a friends computer or say a computer at work etc.

      Hope that helps
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      • Profile picture of the author Snatch
        Originally Posted by Pindich View Post

        It is because they don't encourage people buying from their own affiliate link. I get that some times but if you check it using a different ip address you will see that it carries your affiliate link. May be check it on a friends computer or say a computer at work etc.

        Hope that helps
        YES, that's it, just checked with proxy and its there. This is actually why is happening.

        Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author eac07740
    I had a similar problem and as Pindich noted, when I used a different computer (friends house) my affiliate link showed.
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  • Profile picture of the author pamon
    definitely look at your browser settings and cookies. wierd but should work.
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  • Profile picture of the author mjb13815
    Originally Posted by earlgray View Post

    I have a domain I just use to forward to a clickbank affiliate I like. (I promote the site offline.)

    You go to my domain and it takes you to the affiliate's sales page. It has my clickbank id in the address bar, so I know it's my hop link.

    However, when you click the buy button, and scroll down to the bottom, the affiliate says "none."

    I go in, get a new hop link, re-forward the domain and it works for about a day. The next day I check and again, "affiliate=none"

    What's going on here? This is so frustrating!!!
    I would try to contact Clickbank support about this problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lateef Olajide
    Originally Posted by earlgray View Post

    I have a domain I just use to forward to a clickbank affiliate I like. (I promote the site offline.)

    You go to my domain and it takes you to the affiliate's sales page. It has my clickbank id in the address bar, so I know it's my hop link.

    However, when you click the buy button, and scroll down to the bottom, the affiliate says "none."

    I go in, get a new hop link, re-forward the domain and it works for about a day. The next day I check and again, "affiliate=none"

    What's going on here? This is so frustrating!!!
    Do you just start noticing this?

    Do you track your link?

    What's your sales like compare to visitor (click).

    Has it affect your sales in any way?

    Lateef
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Hi Lateef, the OP made his observations back in May (and hasn't been online here at all for the last 6 weeks) ... "just saying".
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    I was seeing this problem with google chrom, but it worked fine on firefox.
    you should have any extra browser installed in case of emergency!
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