DRASTIC click bank sales drop recently.

Hi Christian,

There've been 5 or 6 threads started off over the last week or ten days, here, about a specific problem of order-form submits not leading to sales (i.e. to a far greater - statistically unimaginable - extent than usual). It seems that many Warriors have this problem over the last few days. (I don't know if that's the same problem you're experiencing, though).

Clickbank, apparently, deny that there's any problem at all. "Shock horror."

Thanks Alexa!

I have not been around here as much lately and have not seen the other threads.
My order form conversion has dropped from 73.9% to 35.4% on this particular product that is where the bulk of the discrepancy is.

I have talked to the vendor for this product and he's going to set me up with private tracking so no more Clickbank for this one. One down 37 to go

I'll look around for the other threads and thanks for the heads up.

Hi. This is my first post here. I have tried to find prior threads about that subject. Especially comforting ones like mentioned here - that it's a normal behavior that happened before. I have been w/ clickbank for an year or a year and a half now and I always had dryspells, but only recentely I have increased efforts and drive a lot more clicks that turns into... nothing.
I have also noticed that the correlation between submitted order forms and sales used to be 1:1 for me (I sold say 1000 products so far).

I have contacted the support and they claim everything is going fine. *******s.



Even though I am a newbie here, I'm a rather experienced affiliate marketer (just a little new to info products and the CB marketplace).

Here's what I suggest others to do and I'm trying to implement myself:

* Warn other affiilates about CB. I don't know if it's ill-tracking or purely planned scam, but something is wrong with CB and if you are a full time affiliate you shouldn't rely on CB as income.
(That is a fact about their instabillity that has nothing to do with products. I read previous thread with people defending clickbank because they earn their 5-10-20K a month. It proves nothing.)

*Try to find alternative affiliate networks that offer the same or simillar products.

*Contact merchants and set up something between you too. Even if there's no tracking available on their end, you can always set up a cpc deal (if you have high importance to them of course).

*Mail this Guy. clickbanksucks dot amxpert dot com and tell him about your experience.

* use this site: replytoben dot com to share your experience with ben shaffer, who has a huge mailing list and probably can investigate further than us.

* shift your focus from your cb sites to other sites until this is resolved.


Any more input about the subject can be a great help for me. I do have some products that I can only sell via clickbank and the merchants are a bunch of idiots and I can't set up no deal with them.

If you guys are using re-directs on your site, you should register 3 or 4 different Clickbank accounts - never rely on just one. With the help of a little simple php you can have your redirect link alternate between the 3 or 4 different clickbank affiliate ids you have. That way you will really know if something is going on before it's too late. If one account starts showing very different results to the others, you will know something is wrong straight away - and you'll also have some data to prove it.

But if all your accounts are showing the same thing then it will give you a little more piece of mind in the fact you are probably just having a temporary slump in sales. When this happens it could be something the vendor has changed on their sales page, they may have increased the price, whatever. But if all your accounts are showing a change then you know you need to go looking for the cause.

These sorts of reports, coupled with Clickbank's apparent historical tendency to dismiss themselves of any blame and responsibility, do not inspire confidence in me at all as a new Clickbank affiliate. :rolleyes:

I knew there would be at least a couple of threads rolling around about this... just had to be.

Only takes a few days after it starts happening for the threads to start.

The only way to get around this.. is to have 5 or 6 ClickBank accounts, and rotate the hoplinks with a script, the moment you start to see irregularities...

It's been done by many affiliates now for a few years. We even went as far as developing an in-house setup for it.

I have had the same problem, although for me it started a couple of months ago. After seeing this thread and realizing it wasn't just me, I have contacted the merchant directly and I would urge you to do the same.

If CB won't listen to the affiliates' concerns, maybe they will wake up and take notice when the merchants start voicing their concerns/defecting to other networks.

I'm beginning to think seriously about this.

But all of us can't be vendors.

This might just be because more people are interested in tangible products right now. It depends on the time of year.

I thought about this also but my vendor stated HIS sales were UP. He would never know if my aff cookie gets jacked. I'm done worrying about it now...


UPDATE:
I have private tracking now and sales are now higher than ever and are VERY consistent.

I would probably puke if I knew how much this has cost me before I took action.

From my experience people generally want to spend their money on physical products around Christmas time. Come January, when everyone is working on their New Year's resolutions, and you'll probably see an increase again in products that help educate and solve problems.

For me its obvious - its christmas.

People are out and about, spending time with family, camping etc

Before getting into internet marketing, all of my sites would "drop off". For me its no big surprise. Its just a matter of sitting it out.

No big deal.

BTW - Ive seen 1 sale over the past week between 9 sites.

Whats obvious to me is that I am now making money, during Christmas after getting private tracking.

I'm not here to convince anyone or hate on CB, it took over 2 years for me to be convinced shenanigans are going on.

Rapbank is a great alternative everyone. And your paid instantly, which is nice. And you cannot buy through your own link through Paypal ever tried it? And the refunds are pretty much non existent.

Don't put your eggs all in one basket they will break! Try both and see who performs better for you!

Its pretty common for markets to slow near Christmas except retail obviously.

People are definatly in a browsing mode around this time.

I run client accounts in health, finance, cosmetic and retail everything apart from retail nose dives around Christmas the volume is still there it just doesn't convert as well. Very frustrating

hmmm, i think Cb doing just fine

Wow, I thought I was alone. I haven't made any money worth mentioning on cb within the last 10 days. I spent a lot of time on a product that was launched 2 days ago, I've gotten about 150 hops and no sales. That doesn't usually happen. The last time I was involved with a launch I got 2 sales in 8 hops.

CB has been extremely dry over the past 5 days. I don't have any sales. I'm positive there's something wrong now. I don't believe so many people would be experiencing difficulties if there wasn't anything wrong.

Online marketing, especially as an affiliate, is a tough business.

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