Clickbank Affiliate=none You Are Not Getting Paid!

What are your privacy settings in firefox? It could be you aren't accepting cookies. That's a checkbox.

Thanks for testing, I hope a few other people do too.

I tested this 4 times and get the same problem every time. Is there a tech head in the house who would know why this would happen?

I am having this problem and have sent Clickbank a help message. The response said I must have been using the old style links. NOT! This is a new product for me and I just created the link - but still at the bottom of the order page it says: "affiliate=none". Nor did my nickname appear in the address URL. I resent me message to Clickbank giving further explanation but several days now and no reply.

Hilary

Exactly so.

The real underlying problem, here, isn't so much the technical/cookie one: it's Clickbank's attitude and behavior.

If only they were willing occasionally to acknowledge and discuss some of their problems a little more openly, then:-

(a) fewer people would abandon them in disgust;

(b) far fewer people would so regularly accuse them of the ongoing deliberate dishonesty of which they're almost certainly not guilty;

(c) it would dramatically improve their public goodwill and reputation: Clickbank and their very occasional spokesmen/apologists have really done their "public relations" a huge disservice by so consistently denying all possibility of error, and by being so quick - and sometimes under ludicrous circumstances - to ridicule people for casting aspersions at them without having "video evidence" in the most stupid, patronising and offensive of ways.

Yes, I'm afraid so. Because there's no established competitor reliably providing the exact service that Clickbank claims to provide. (If there were, Clickbank wouldn't last a year, but it's a hell of a difficult thing to do).

There isn't really a reliable/informative way of doing so. All one can easily check is one's own PC, but what matters is one's potential customers' PC's.

No - the bottom of the order-page.

It's easy to believe this, Vikram. Unfortunately it's close-to-impossible to adduce any real evidence for it. This is the problem: if that weren't true, you wouldn't/couldn't necessarily know!

Mine are all working at the moment - but that's "as tested on my own computer" which obviously doesn't really tell me what I need to know.

Are you doing any of these things? (from Clickbank's site)

To ensure proper tracking of your HopLink referrals, your HopLink needs to open into the top level of a new or existing window. For most affiliates, this is not a problem. However, some affiliates attempt to hide their HopLinks by having them open into other types of sub-window objects, such as frames, iframes, layers, applets, or images. These types of HopLinks are considered invalid, and can result in lost affiliate referral credit, incorrect display of your website, or, in the case of abuse of the HopLink system, could result in account termination without notice.
If you're a beginner affiliate and don't understand the terminology above, don't worry. The default methods of creating HopLinks listed above will always generate valid HopLinks.

I have tested my links in firefox and the cookie was set correctly. I even tested with different affiliate ids and they correctly replaced each other on the order form.

This may be more a issue with the security setting of your own firefox installation.

The thing is nobody else does a better job of tracking, so where does that leave you.

They do something besides using cookies. I've cleared all my cookies and disabled them and still they manage to track right to the order form.

My firefox browser is doing this too. It wasn't a week ago though, so it's a recent issue I think. Not to say it hasn't happened before, but it seems much more widespread this time.

I don't have any restrictive privacy settings for cookies or anything else either. I tried shutting down my anti-virus and related software, but still got affiliate=none.

In fact, I bought a product from another affiliate last night and I had to use my iphone to but it to make sure they got credit.

Something is really screwed up.

I have same problem when i tried to click my affiliate link and it showed affilliate = none. And i tried the advise of linkman11, it works.

Goto:

Tools > Options > Privacy

Click on Firefox will > Use Custom Settings from history (from dropdown)

Click on Exceptions

Look for Clickbank.net in list and remove it.

Sure enough, this solved the problem instantly.

Did you ask the CB rep that question? I'd be interested in the reply

Having recently updated and run Spybot search and destory, I got the problem described in this thread, that is my clickbank affiliate id showing as none in the clickbank purchase page for both Firefox and IE8.

I followed the helpful info given earlier in this thread to fix the Firefox problem. However I could not find a way to fix the IE8 issue by using the IE tools/internet options, so I ended up going to my computer's Registry, and doing a search for clickbank. I found a number of Registry entries for clickbank.net, all of which I deleted. This seems to have fixed the IE problem for now.

At least this allows me to test affiliate links using Firefox and IE8, but as said earlier on this thread, it does not prevent potential customers from having the same issue.

I would be interested if anyone has found this issue in IE8 too, and if there is a cleaner solution for fixing it.

Jo

Can someone clarify something for me: The wee tricks you do to get firefox running again; I take it that, that only fixes the problem on your computer?

You cannot start asking customers to start doing all that, before you buy. I guess it is something you have to live with for the mean time.

For what it's worth I have noticed CB being very strange the last week. Probably nothing to do with this thread's problem, but just seems a bit funny.

No it will have no effect