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Clickbank Tracking ID's

by AnthonyCeseri
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Hi,

I've promoted affiliate products and used a tracking ID (by going through their marketplace). But now I just finished my own product and I can't figure out how to add a Clickbank tracking ID to my own product. Can anyone shed some light on that?

Thanks!
#clickbank #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author Terry Kyle
    Hi Anthony,

    This may not be the perfect solution you were looking for within PayPal but this may be an option for you:

    ClickBank Conversion Tracking – How To Track Your CB Sales? | LinkTrackr Dot Com

    Affiliate Conversion Tracking Basics – Are You Tracking Your ROI? | LinkTrackr Dot Com
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    • Profile picture of the author AnthonyCeseri
      Thanks Terry

      I also found this... I think if you add ?vtid=YOURTRACKINGID it'll track your own product. It would look like this:

      ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net/?vtid=example

      I just haven't tested it yet to see if it works. The only thing that stinks is you'd have to create a new sales page for each clickbank pay page (for each separate ID)
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by AnthonyCeseri View Post

    I can't figure out how to add a Clickbank tracking ID to my own product.
    You can always be your own affiliate, and add TID's to the affiliate hoplink, if that helps? (You'll just get each payment divided between two accounts instead of all in one).
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    • Profile picture of the author AnthonyCeseri
      Thanks Alexa - I'm trying to avoid adding another account, if possible, but thanks for the suggestion.
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      • Profile picture of the author yourop
        Hey Anthony

        To track sales for your own product you can use tid

        Your link will look like this

        http://ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net/?tid=YOUR-TID-HERE

        Doing this, the tid(s) you use will show up in both your clickbank Transactions and Analytics.
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        • Profile picture of the author AnthonyCeseri
          Cool, thanks - You don't have to add the 'v' before the 'tid' if it's your own product?
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          • Profile picture of the author yourop
            If I am not mistaken, vtid is used when affiliates are promoting your products.

            Like http://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickban...=AFFILIATE-TID

            And in this case both vtid and tid can be used. vtid will show on the vendor account (vendor tid) and tid will show up on affiliate account.
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            • Profile picture of the author AnthonyCeseri
              Okay - thanks
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              • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
                Originally Posted by yourop View Post

                If I am not mistaken, vtid is used when affiliates are promoting your products.
                This is not correct.

                tid and vtid have completely different functions.

                tid is added to a hoplink and is used by an affiliate to track sales

                vtid is added to a paylink and is used by a vendor to split test or compare different sales pages.

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                • Profile picture of the author AnthonyCeseri
                  Originally Posted by Harvey Segal View Post

                  This is not correct.

                  tid and vtid have completely different functions.

                  tid is added to a hoplink and is used by an affiliate to track sales

                  vtid is added to a paylink and is used by a vendor to split test or compare different sales pages.

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                  Thanks for clarifying, Harvey - is this how you would use vtid?:

                  ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net/?vtid=example
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                • Profile picture of the author yourop
                  Anthony, sory about my wrong instructions. Harvey is right.

                  However, I do not understand why you need to create a new cb account to track you own sales.
                  As Harvey was saying, you can use vtid on your payment links to track different sources of your sales.

                  So why not use that?
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                  • Profile picture of the author AnthonyCeseri
                    Originally Posted by yourop View Post

                    Anthony, sory about my wrong instructions. Harvey is right.

                    However, I do not understand why you need to create a new cb account to track you own sales.
                    As Harvey was saying, you can use vtid on your payment links to track different sources of your sales.

                    So why not use that?
                    You're right - That is what I'll do. As I see now, it works out to be like this:

                    1st option: Use the vtid on your payment link, but create a different sales page for each vtid

                    2nd option: Use one sales page, with multiple tracking id's by adding a 2nd account, and promoting yourself as an affiliate.

                    I'd rather go with the first, like you said - but the second is an option too, if you only want one sales page.
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      • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
        Originally Posted by AnthonyCeseri View Post

        Thanks for clarifying, Harvey - is this how you would use vtid?:

        ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net/?vtid=example
        That's correct.

        And regarding your other point


        Originally Posted by AnthonyCeseri View Post

        I'm trying to avoid adding another account, if possible
        You would have to if you want to track your own sales.

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    • Profile picture of the author tjaysen70
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      You can always be your own affiliate, and add TID's to the affiliate hoplink, if that helps? (You'll just get each payment divided between two accounts instead of all in one).

      yeah exactly, and the code http://ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net/?tid=YOUR-TID-HERE will work in pretty much any situation for any CB product you want to track. You can also use any tracking software and see where your sales are taking place.
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      • Profile picture of the author yourop
        hmm ...

        I would still go with #1 (using vtid)

        You don't need to create a new sales page for each vtid you want to use.
        Following the steps below will get you going with a single sales page:

        #1. Make your sales page a .php page (no changes required inside the page but updating file extension from htm(html) to php

        #2. For the order link(s) use something like this
        http://ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net/?vtid=$_GET["vtid"]

        #3. When you are promoting your sales page, make sure to add ?vtid=Your-TID-Here at the end of the link
        (http://www.mywebsite.com/mysalespage.php?vtid=TID-Here)
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