Clickbank Traffic and Google Traffic: 2 payment systems?

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I have a product that I sell on clickbank, but my site also has significant traffic from google. I do not want to pay clickbank commissions on my google traffic, so I'm looking for a way to make it work.

The best I can figure out is that I need a separate payment system and to set it up so that clickbank traffic will only see the clickbank payment link and not the other. Does anyone know how to do this?
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    So you're going to go to a lot of trouble to save 2.5% or so in clickbank fees. After paying a programmer to do what you want, how long will it take for you to break even?

    Or maybe I'm asking the wrong question...

    After thinking about it, the only way you'd be paying a commission on 'google traffic' is if the visitor had already been to your site through an affiliate link. Which, in turn, means that you're trying to steal someone's legitimate commission. That's not what you're trying to do, is it?
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    • Profile picture of the author craigmo
      Originally Posted by SteveJohnson View Post

      After thinking about it, the only way you'd be paying a commission on 'google traffic' is if the visitor had already been to your site through an affiliate link. Which, in turn, means that you're trying to steal someone's legitimate commission. That's not what you're trying to do, is it?
      No, I communicated with clickbank about this and they said is is perfectly fine to have two payment systems.

      To clarify my post: If my traffic is from clickbank then people will pay through the clickbank payment system. If my traffic is from google and other sources I want that traffic to pay through a different payment system.

      Actually clickbank charges 7.5 %. In my case a vast majority of my sales are going to be from google traffic so paying them 7.5 % is silly. But I still want to have an affiliate network with clickbank, hence the two payment system question.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    What I meant when I said "save 2.5%" is that your regular merchant fees are going to be in the 3-5% range anyway. Seems like a lot of effort to go to. But still, 3% is 3%, eh?

    You could check the referrer, but that's not always reliable as some browsers don't send it 100% of the time. You could check the query string, but if the visitor is a repeat from an earlier affiliate referral, that might not be set either.

    Sorry, I don't have a foolproof answer for you. Maybe someone else can chime in.
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    • Profile picture of the author craigmo
      Thank for your help with this difficult question. I had thought this would be a standard thing but I'm beginning to see it's not. When I checked with cb they said I can set something like this up, so I thought that it must be done routinely.

      Still, I'm wondering, how do people run multiple affiliate networks from one site? I would have thought that was normal practice but I'm a newbie so I'm going on a lot of assumption.

      Anyway, thanks again for your help
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