Create affiliate link for my own ClickBank Product?

Thanks Alexa..I just want to give an affiliate link to people on my list to promote the product. When I login to my acct and search the market place the product doesn't appear for any keywords...or do they become an affiliate by just inserting their own CB user name in the hop link?

What am I missing?

First of all, the marketplace only lists your site details, not every individual product in your account.

Secondly, it is only updated once per day. And, you might not appear at all if you haven't made a sale in the last 12 weeks.

An uncloaked affiliate link to your own site will look like this

Http:://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net

Replace affiliate and vendor with the account ids (you need an affiliate account as well as your vendor account).

This type of uncloaked link will go to your main site landing page, not to the individual product's pitch page.

If you want to use an affiliate link going to a specific product's pitch page, or want to allow your other affiliates to do that too, you need a script such as cbmultilink - Turbo-Charge Your ClickBank Affiliate Program - CBMultiLink allows you to offer your affiliates a choice of landing pages, cloaking, and more. or one of it's competitors.

Hth

Wait for day or two... sometimes it takes time for updating the marketplace after the product is approved

Effectively, yes, sort of.

Unless you use something like CBMultilink, you can only have 1 landing page that all your affiliates must use.

If NOT using CBMultlink: You could sort-of work round this limitation, by making that landing page the front page of your store, which then contains links to secondary-pages describing your various products. However, the problem with this approach, is that your affiliates can not link directly to the sales page for a particular product that they are promoting, which most likely would kill their conversion rate. (Imagine, if you promoted a particular product on Amazon, and then you told people, click this link to go to Amazon and do a search for product X --- it obviously would put people off, even if they understood what they were supposed to do).

However....

Using something like CBMulitlink you can give your affiliates a choice of landing pages.

For example, each product could have its own landing page.

Or, for example, you could have different landing pages depending on who the affiliate is marketing to. For example, if you sell a diet product, you could set a pitch page with muscle-men and "manly" colors, that you male-fitness affiliates can link to. And set up a pitch page with slim women and a different color set and sales letter, that your women's health affiliates can link to.