Clickbank Screwing Everyone?

18 years ago

There have been sooo many of these posts on the WF lately. Have you contacted CB directly, their phone number is:

1-800-390-6035

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onera

18 years ago

Are they? I was thinking about the bad economy.

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Marhelper 18 years ago

Originally Posted by onera

Are they? I was thinking about the bad economy.

That is what I am thinking.
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patchman

18 years ago

Yeah, I think things will pick up soon though with xmas being around the corner!!

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nicholasb

18 years ago

or maybe there stealing from us and not paying us our commisions

just a thought

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MindReality

18 years ago

I notice that ClickBank added the Currency Choice feature on their order forms.

When was this feature added?

Anyone noticed a drop in conversion to sales because of this?

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W.P. Allen 18 years ago

Check this thread out about this topic: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...strip-fat.html

It seems there may be an issue with hoplink tracking.
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Thomas

18 years ago

Originally Posted by MindReality

I notice that ClickBank added the Currency Choice feature on their order forms.

When was this feature added?

I know this isn't the solution everyone wants but I e-mailed Clickbank and they disabled the automatic currency conversion. The price now displays in whatever currency I choose but the customer also has the option to (manually) convert it to another currency if they wish.

Tommy.

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Thomas

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Thomas

... price now displays in whatever currency I choose ...

And... now it doesn't.

It seems to have reverted back to automatic conversion.

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Fabian Tan

18 years ago

In the latest Mozilla Firefox update (unless I have noticed it late), Clickbank.net is under the list of blocked sites for accepting Cookies.

Check it out.

Looks like I won't be promoting Clickbank products as an affiliate for a while

Fabian

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Eric Lorence

18 years ago

I think it's been known for some time...

Linking to the CB payment page directly, instead of using the standard hoplink will cause loss of your tracking.

It is stated in their FAQ's section.

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Fabian Tan

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Eric Lorence

I think it's been known for some time...

Linking to the CB payment page directly, instead of using the standard hoplink will cause loss of your tracking.

It is stated in their FAQ's section.

Nope, I'm referring to the standard hoplink. After all the standard hoplink uses Clickbank.net

How a standard hoplink looks like:

http://xxxxxx.merchantname.hop.clickbank.net

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Fabian Tan

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Danc1122

I'm not usually one to complain about this stuff... but it does seem something is messed up.

I have almost doubled my traffic and yet I'm making almost half as what I was before. I use to convert 1:20 or at least 1:50...now I am only getting sales at 1:100 and 1:150...it's insane.

It seems like the publishers are making extra money while the affiliates get screwed. The tracking links don't always work...so publisher gets full credit even though it was from an affiliate.

Well, I think it's about time I create my own product

I erased Clickbank.net from the list of blocked sites on Mozilla and presto, my affiliate nick appears on the payment page. But of course, it's only on my end.

Almost 45% of users use Mozilla Firefox.

Fabian

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Steven Carl Kelly

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Fabian Tan

IAlmost 45% of users use Mozilla Firefox.

35% according to...

Global Marketshare Statistics on Web Browsers and Operating Systems | Clicky

However, most sources indicate the number is about 20%...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_s...f_web_browsers

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Fabian Tan

18 years ago

Originally Posted by faxinator

35% according to...

Global Marketshare Statistics on Web Browsers and Operating Systems | Clicky

However, most sources indicate the number is about 20%...

Usage share of web browsers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not according to this site:

Browser Statistics

Statistics are just guidelines of course. The reality is, a lot of people use Mozilla, so you could be losing 20%, 35%, 45%, whatever the number is, on sales.

Whether that sales figure is $200 or $10000.

And Mozilla is just one issue, there are probably a whole myriad of other issues like Spybot, cookie stuffing etc

Fabian

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Wayne

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Fabian Tan

In the latest Mozilla Firefox update (unless I have noticed it late), Clickbank.net is under the list of blocked sites for accepting Cookies.

Check it out.

Looks like I won't be promoting Clickbank products as an affiliate for a while

Fabian

I don't think it is Firefox that does this, but probably another program you have
downloaded onto your computer. Sypbot Search and Destroy will add clickbank.net
to your blocked sites when you use the immunize feature. I don't have any sites
in my blocked sites list with Firefox.

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Tom E

18 years ago

Hmm, I'm not having this experience at all - I'm making more money on clickbank than ever before.

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Gary McCaffrey

18 years ago

Two strange clickbank occurrences today.

1. One of my products that practically never makes a sale thats not through an affiliate made 2 non affiliate sales.

2. I offered a bonus package for another product and have had buyers forward me their receipt to get the bonus but I haven't received credit for the sale.

So it would seem like somethings up.

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chris_surfrider

18 years ago

I would actually have to agree with this on my end.

I have an active affiliate account with CB and I've noticed low conversions lately, and traffic is steady.

The economy could be a part of it - especially with products that fall into more of the curiosity/entertainment genres - but it would make more sense that traffic would fall - not conversion.

I usually ignore the "sales are down" threads because usually it's just people who have no legitimate sample-size to draw any conclusions, but in this case, across numerous forums, something is definitely up, and it has to do with tracking and perhaps CB's new geo-pricing function, which I think is retarded as a default setting.

It should be optional for the publisher, without having to contact them.

-Chris

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W.P. Allen 18 years ago

Chris, if you read this thread I think you'll see what's going on: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...strip-fat.html

There maybe is a hoplink tracking issue. Many people are finding when they click through to the purchase page that their affiliate ID is not showing (affiliate=none). Check it out for yourself.

I've found 10 products (so far) that I'm promoting where my aff ID isn't showing up on the purchase page.
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- MindReality 18 years ago
  
  The daily sales results for the whole of my previous week was excellent.
  
  So it cannot be due to the dropping US economy.
  
  My sales in the past few days have been suddenly A LOT lower than even the previous 3 weeks.
  
  Anyone else experiencing this problem?
  
  I sure hope that I can get ClickBank to remove the geo-pricing function. Otherwise we all should contact ClickBank to remove it.
  
  I am refering to my own sales as a VENDOR. If vendor sales are down, then of course all affiliate sales would be down as well.
  
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budfox

18 years ago

I just upgraded the graphics on a couple sales pages I have for CB products and have noticed a slight increase in (non-affiliate) sales.

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Steve Garratt

18 years ago

I don't think that the geopricing is the root cause of this because 99% of my sales are US so the geoprice should be in $$.

But I'm experiencing the same problems of lower conversion rates. I'm getting more hops than ever at more than 550 per day and yet my conversion rate has dropped from 50:1 to more than 100:1.

It seems to be certain products and it goes in waves. Not the same product all the time. One product that I promote usualy gets 2-4 sales a day but it hasn't registered a single sale in the last 5 days.

All my links get checked out to the sales page when I set them up but it would be a mammoth job to test them all now.

Steve

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naughtyneo

18 years ago

Check out this thread.
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...right-now.html

Clickbank could be screwing their affiliates.

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Charles E. White

18 years ago

I haven't had any problems with sales with Clickbank but I always do with Commission Junction. I have had friends order from a Commission Junction link with me sitting right there watching and I never did receive my commission. This has happened several times.

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Allurre

18 years ago

clickbank has never followed up clearing my cases... i've had my commission jacked several times already.

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Mike Hill

18 years ago

This rocks...

You know what's funny... every time one of these threads pops up I seem to get more commissions a few days later?

For some strange reason it's happened every single time. Someone is definitely watching for these types of threads.

Mike Hill

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Fabian Tan

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Hill

This rocks...

You know what's funny... every time one of these threads pops up I seem to get more commissions a few days later?

For some strange reason it's happened every single time. Someone is definitely watching for these types of threads.

Mike Hill

It's funny you say that...in the last few hours I have made a ton of CB sales.

I think we need to keep these threads up!

Fabian

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affhelper

18 years ago

This is why I left Clickbank as an affiliate. I sell product through them
that I own but don't promote any new Clickbank products on larger
scale like I used to.

I moved to CPA offers! Conversions are freaking amazing!!
Setting up a $100-$200/day campaign with CPA networks is
a lot easier than with Clickbank.

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Fabian Tan

18 years ago

Originally Posted by affhelper

This is why I left Clickbank as an affiliate. I sell product through them
that I own but don't promote any new Clickbank products on larger
scale like I used to.

I moved to CPA offers! Conversions are freaking amazing!!
Setting up a $100-$200/day campaign with CPA networks is
a lot easier than with Clickbank.

Most of my income is from Paypal and CPA programs now.

Reliability is the name of the game!

Fabian

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JayXtreme

18 years ago

You know...

A few weeks/months back.. some guy called Jay was tellin' people about this.

Through the last 5 years when people have been bitching about CB, he ignored it.. because he did tests to prove differently.. but this time CB links did not pass the testing and he told everyone that asked him about it..

Guess what?..

Nobody listened to him and ASSumed he was one of the whinging crowd...

You NEED to diversify, replace some products, find alternative programs and merchants. If all your eggs are in the CB basket.. get them out now and spread them around a little. CB is NOT dead or dying.. but there are issues with tracking and the payment page currency options..

Peace

Jay (<-That guy)

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Steven Carl Kelly

18 years ago

I only have one affiliate program in CB, and it never generates much money at all. My successful affiliate programs are all outside of CB.

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Jon Alexander

18 years ago

clickbank can be flaky with safari on Mac too. As I found out to my cost.

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WinsonYeung

18 years ago

I think this is because of bad economy as well.
Even internet marketing will suffer in bad economy when the consumer confident level is low

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Aaron Tan 18 years ago

I have made a few sales today too...

Past few days also no problem...

What's the main problem now actually?

Geo-targeted Errors?
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