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How Do You Use Clickbank Tracking ID If It Is Your Clickbank Site

by mikeyman120
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I know that affiliates can easily set up a tracking id in their link but what about vendors. What is the format. I don't see it on Cb's site. The only thing I can think of is to make an affiliate link with my id in it twice like:

http://myvendorid.myvendorid.hop.clickbank .net/?tid=myblog (without the space of course).

I am asking because I was thinking of advertising one of my sites with PLR here on the WF in my sig and websites for sale section but if I have a link that looks like an affiliate link I guess I can't use it in my signature.

Unless the format above with vendorid and vendorid makes it ok.

Can vendors track their own site with Clickbanks tracking or do I have to get 3rd party tracking solution, Anybody know?
#clickbank #site #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Mikey,

    This is straight from the horses mouth...

    Vendor Tracking IDs
    ClickBank has added the ability for vendors to pass customizable Vendor Tracking IDs (TIDs) to the end of their paylinks. These TIDs can be tracked using ClickBank Analytics, allowing vendors to split test or compare different sales pages. To use a Vendor Tracking ID, vendors should add the variable vtid=example to the end of their paylink. The TID can be up to 24 alphanumeric characters.
    Source: Creating a Payment Link

    So it looks like your example above is correct only you want to use 'vtid' instead of just 'tid'
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  • Profile picture of the author John BR
    Yeah it too is knowledge addition for me today. Very useful. Thanks WillR.
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  • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
    There is some mis-information here.

    Originally Posted by mikeyman120 View Post

    http://myvendorid.myvendorid.hop.clickbank .net/?tid=myblog (without the space of course).
    That won't work.
    It needs an affiliate id which is different from the vendor-id

    The vtid is not the answer. That is for use on the order link to compare different sales pages.

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    • Profile picture of the author WillR
      Originally Posted by Harvey Segal View Post

      The vtid is not the answer. That is for use on the order link to compare different sales pages.
      Actually it will easily work. You can simply link to the different versions of your salespage like this: yourwebsite.com/?x=version1, yourwebsite.com/?x=version2 etc

      Your sales page then has a simple bit of php that strips that value from the url and inserts it at the end of the payment url after the ?vtid= so your payment url now has that tracking id at the end of it.

      Done... and you didn't even break a sweat.
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      • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
        Originally Posted by WillR View Post

        Done... and you didn't even break a sweat.
        Yes - if you know how to add PHP and if you want to have duplicate sales pages.

        It's even less sweat to just use a different affiliate id

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        • Profile picture of the author WillR
          Originally Posted by Harvey Segal View Post

          Yes - if you know how to add PHP and if you want to have duplicate sales pages.

          It's even less sweat to just use a different affiliate id

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          Sure, but not everyone wants to have a heap of affiliate accounts. It can be a pain in the backside having to create a new account for each different version you want to test. Much less work to just implement a simple solution like above.

          If you have a number of different Clickbank accounts then go for it. It's probably what I would do but for someone who doesn't, the other may be a better/easier option.
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  • Profile picture of the author juggerna623
    Wow you can do that. I am about to get on that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Derek Pankaew
    Sorry to bump an age old thread, but I'm trying to do the same thing as the original poster and still didn't see an answer to the original question.

    Vendor ID allows vendors to track different buy buttons and payment links on a sales page. It does NOT allow you to track a traffic source separately, the way you can with a tracking ID.

    Is there any way to use a tracking ID as a vendor?
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  • Profile picture of the author dabuzz
    Did anyone find the php script to take the vtid value from the url and add it to the payment link?
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