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CB Vendor Question: Who are my affiliates?

by keyon
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Just curious if there is some way for Clickbank vendors to see from where a sale originates. If not, is there a particular reason why CB would hide the identity of affiliates to vendors?
#affiliates #question #vendor
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by keyon View Post

    Just curious if there is some way for Clickbank vendors to see from where a sale originates.
    Only if you've elected to whitelist affiliates (i.e. not to accept affiliates without approving them first).

    Otherwise, you can encourage them to contact you (in your Marketplace listing, and/or on your affiliates page, and/or on your Vendor Spotlight page, and can even have an incentivized opt-in on the affiliates page), but you can't insist on knowing their identities.

    Originally Posted by keyon View Post

    If not, is there a particular reason why CB would hide the identity of affiliates to vendors?
    CickBank has just always offered anonymity to affiliates who want it.

    Vendors do have the right to avoid that by whitelisting affiliates, for what it's worth (but almost none actually does).

    Personally, I wouldn't promote a product without contacting its vendor (even if only/mostly to request a "review copy"!), but there you have it.
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    • Profile picture of the author keyon
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Only if you've elected to whitelist affiliates
      Thanks, Alexa. I wasn't aware I could do that.

      Would this tell me, though, where a particular sale originates? My CB email notification (of a sale) gives me the name and email address of the customer, but nothing about where the customer was when he/she clicked through to buy.

      I'd love to be able to see which affiliates are responsible for generating my revenue. My Google alerts (set for the keywords in my ebook title) show a lot of strange and spammy-looking websites/directories that have apparently signed on as affiliates. I can't imagine how these sites could ever generate sales for me. Lots of broken English, and most have my product listed on the same page with a hundred other CB products that are totally unrelated to my niche.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by keyon View Post

        My CB email notification (of a sale) gives me the name and email address of the customer, but nothing about where the customer was when he/she clicked through to buy.
        S/he was on your sales page, presumably? (Unless you have affiliates linking directly to your order page? They're supposed to have your permission, to do that). And your sales page is hosted on your own site (unless you're already using this very new system they've just brought in where ClickBank will host that for you as well, if you want them to?). So how would ClickBank have access to that information?

        Originally Posted by keyon View Post

        I'd love to be able to see which affiliates are responsible for generating my revenue.
        Some people may use their own real names as their affiliate nicknames, perhaps - don't know if that might ever help you to identify them? You have their nicknames?

        Originally Posted by keyon View Post

        My Google alerts (set for the keywords in my ebook title) show a lot of strange and spammy-looking websites/directories that have apparently signed on as affiliates. I can't imagine how these sites could ever generate sales for me. Lots of broken English, and most have my product listed on the same page with a hundred other CB products that are totally unrelated to my niche.
        Yes, very difficult to imagine they'll ever produce a sale, isn't it? :confused:
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        • Profile picture of the author keyon
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          So how would ClickBank have access to that information?
          Well, that's somewhat true, considering that buyers are making their purchase from my sales page (which resides on my web host) and not the affiliate's website. However, since the affiliate is using a coded link, it seems it would be easy enough for CB to track the origin of the sale, much in the same way I can track sales on my own website using Google Analytics.
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          • Profile picture of the author SunilTanna
            Actually you do know which affiliates generate sales. Their nicknames are in the sales report.

            You just don't ncessarily which people / websites those nicknames correspond to.

            Try goggling the nickname, and/or making a hop link going back to the affiliate (i.e. reverse the merchant/affiliate in the normal hop link), and you might find them.
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            • Profile picture of the author keyon
              Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

              Actually you do know which affiliates generate sales. Their nicknames are in the sales report.
              Ahh...yes. I see that now. Maybe you're right -- I can do some investigating with that nickname and possibly find the source.

              Thanks
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