clickbank affiliate link

15 years ago

Those are the old clickbank links which will still credit you. The newer ones are jibberish because of their new system.

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steveniam

15 years ago

Those are old affiliate links. For the latest links they do look like gibberish

Originally Posted by gotdmw

im sure this has been covered, but i could not find it when searching

i notice some affiliates sites where there hoplinks are displayed, they have the vendors direct url with the clickbank id, mine is just a bunch clickbank jibberish

How do i change this?

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jasonl70

15 years ago

the 'gibberish' links are the ones you want.. they're encoded to help reduce affiliate commission theft. Your prospect should never see the link itself though - you need to be 'cloaking' them with a redirect, etc...

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kendrickyi

15 years ago

I notice that your aff ID is still shown.

For example you create a hoplink for www.someproduct.com,
You get abcd1234xyz.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=trackingID

when you visit this website, the url will change to something like
www.someproduct.com

so visitors can still guess that you are an affiliate, and they might purposely remove the ?hop=myusername at the back.

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jasonl70

15 years ago

Originally Posted by kendrickyi

I notice that your aff ID is still shown.

For example you create a hoplink for www.someproduct.com,
You get abcd1234xyz.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=trackingID

when you visit this website, the url will change to something like
www.someproduct.com

so visitors can still guess that you are an affiliate, and they might purposely remove the ?hop=myusername at the back.

it does not matter if they remove it.. the cookie has already been set. They would need to log in to clickbank and generate their own hoplink in order to overwrite your cookie.

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Sumit Menon

15 years ago

Originally Posted by jasonl70

it does not matter if they remove it.. the cookie has already been set. They would need to log in to clickbank and generate their own hoplink in order to overwrite your cookie.

Or just clear clickbank cookies?

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jasonl70 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Sumit_Menon

Or just clear clickbank cookies?

I think the real problem is with people replacing your cb id with their own - not people who just grudgingly try to cut you out of the commission. Granted, it's still pretty easy replace those id's..

I also like to be able to hide my network of sites from people who use tools like "affiliate elite" to try to reverse engineer my business - those tools spider sites looking for cb id's.
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- gotdmw 15 years ago
  
  how do i go about cloaking my url?
  
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  kendrickyi 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by gotdmw
  
  how do i go about cloaking my url?
  
  tinyurl, bit.ly.
  Or you could put javascript on a webpage that redirects visitors to the merchant's website, like this:
  
  <SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
  
  </SCRIPT>
  
  There is a php redirect code too, and from what I've heard, it is better than javascript, but I'm not too sure about it.
  
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gotdmw

14 years ago

su.pr or bit.ly??

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gotdmw

14 years ago

what if your clickbank ID does not show up in the domain after they click on the hoplink, do u still get credit if they buy?

cause for some publishers my id shows up like domain.com/hop:id
then some it doesnt show up like that,

i have been cloaking my hoplink with bit.ly