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I am SO Excited! Clickbank Approval Nightmare!

by herbalhound
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Well, I finally got my product approved. It was so funny because I had read everything about the approval process and the new changes atleast 10 times. I felt sure that I was fine with my product. I had covered all the bases. 3 days latter I was denied.

Okay, I can't say that... Changed several thing on my page that I really thought where fine. Nope Still Denied! UGH!

What's your proof?
Here's my proof?

Finally Approved. Geeze.

I was not expecting it to be so scary. I really had my doubts that I would ever get through it. I was already thinking I would have to sell my product somewhere else.

Basicly, I just wanted to share that it can be hard to get approved at this time.

Clickbank is not joking around with the new guidelines at least not with new products. I am just wondering what is going to happen come August 31st when all exsisting products have to meet the new guidelines aswell.

I think a lot of people might be surprised at what they are going to have to change in order to comply. Like I said I thought I was fine the way I was and I had to jump thru some hoops.

Yes it is a good thing. It is going to be a great thing if they keep it up. The quality of products on clickbank is sure to increase.

Also I saw people talking in other threads about how vendors will just change their page after it is approved. Well from what I understand Clickbank is going to be checking in on a regular basis. So I don't think that will be happening too much.

The end of this month is going to be really interesting over at clickbank.
#approval #clickbank #excited #nightmare
  • Profile picture of the author J R Halchak
    Any specific examples on things that required alteration? Headlines, testimonials, etc? Maybe some actual verbiage.... just out of curiosity.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    Most of the new changes have to do with the "make money" niche. Is your product in that niche?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kal Sallam
    Good Luck on your new product!
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    • Profile picture of the author herbalhound
      No my product is not in the IM niche it is really more in the pet business niche, if that is a niche?

      I had to show proof of my testomonials meaning submit the actual letters.

      I had to reword my sales pitch. I don't remeber everything that I changed as far as wording but I couldn't put a value on my freebies so they just had to be my "free gifts to you". I couldn't say my product was worth such and such but you would get it for this. I had to say my product "could be" worth. Does that make sense?

      You can't say for a limited time. So I had to take that away.

      Anywhere that there is a buy now button you have to have a price which I did but I had a buy now button at the top and didn't have a price there. my bad So I had to fix that.

      Oh you can say if you order now but you can't say if you order today. Silly stuff like this.

      Really it was just a headache for me to try and figure out what they wanted me to change at first. There was a lot of back and fourth with them.

      Anyways, hope this helps someone.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve.S.
        Originally Posted by herbalhound View Post

        I had to show proof of my testomonials meaning submit the actual letters.
        Could you explain the procedure here? Did you have to send them a hard copy of all your signed testimonials?

        I am still shocked that I won't be able to use my older testimonials anymore. There's no way to fix that either (email addresses may have changed, lack of time or motivation to rewrite and sign a testimonial on a piece of paper and forward it by snail-mail, etc ...)
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  • Profile picture of the author J R Halchak
    @ncmedia - I'm sure they're just doing this to bide their time until the 'sitewide compliance' requirement sometime in August. It's sort of good that they're doing all this although I doubt it will have any real effect on the quality of the products sold through cb.
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  • Profile picture of the author davemiz
    haha.... NC... yeah.. was wondering the same thing... kinda weird.

    cant wait to see what the marketplace looks like in a few weeks... especially in the MMO niche....
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