Tracking Clickbank Pages

They just need the normal hoplink (which they can make themselves from ClickBank's Marketplace, in the usual way). Unless that's overwritten by a subsequent affiliate link, or removed from the prospective customer's computer, their affiliate cookie will earn them the commission provided the customer buys during the 60-day cookie duration.

However, it may be very difficult indeed (to put it mildly) to find serious, pro-affiliates who are willing to send their traffic to a vendor's sales page which has an opt-in on it, for all the reasons explained at great length in this fine thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oduct-opt.html

The difficulty is that if the vendor sends email to the prospective customer before the sale, the affiliate is then running the risk of losing his commission to vendors who send the customers emails containing other hoplinks (which will overwrite their existing cookie, when clicked on). Clearly, you don't intend to do this, but there's nothing affiliates can do about it, if you do - and they have only your word for it. ClickBank allows this. This is known as a "leaky sales page" and is an arrangement which very few (if any) serious affiliates will tolerate. Generally for good and valid reasons.

One possible solution is to have two different sales pages for the product: one with an opt-in (for yourself, and/or for the traffic of any affiliates who "don't mind that" - though it must be said that good affiliates do mind it) and another without it, for the more serious affiliates you surely want to attract, whose traffic you can't realistically hope to get visiting a page with a vendor's opt-in.

Reading carefully the whole of the thread linked to just above will fill you in on all the "considerations" about this well-known issue.

If you want to build your list and make sales, you're best off buying solo ads and getting list subscribers that way, then you can sell to them yourself. Or, if you want affiliates to do the work for you, have affiliates send traffic directly to your sales page, not the opt in page.

Not sure how everyone else does it, but if I were to try this, I would probably....

1. On my squeeze page I would place my CB buy now link that leads to my CB order form.
2. Instead of making it a visible buy now button or link, I would reduce the text link to a dot.
3. This would then track my affiliate who sent the visitor.
4. Then if I mailed out an offer for my product, once a purchase is made, the commission will be awarded to that affiliate, providing he/she is the last affiliate that referred the customer to my squeeze page / product.

If I am wrong here and this would not work, or is against policy, then feel free (anyone) to jump in?

I've kind of explained this wrong because I wouldn't do what you think I meant in the first post!

Basically, I'm doing a launch on the 13th August and I want my affiliates to provide as much value to their list as possible and so instead of them sending their list straight to my squeeze page - I want them to send them through an affiliate link to my squeeze page.

Then on launch day, I want them to use the sales page affiliate link in the email to their list.

Does anyone know how I do THAT? :=)

Thanks

Zak

They only get one affiliate link. There's no separate squeeze affiliate link and sales page affiliate link. Their "affiliate link" therefore would not change.

On launch day you would simply switch the landing page from it being your squeeze page, to it being the sales page.

Affiliates need to send traffic directly to your sales page in order to get a commission when their visitors buy from you.

Ahh I see, ok thanks for the help guys :=)

Thanks for the response Alexa :=), but no I was talking about sending affiliates to a specific page on a website through an affiliate link.