Clickbank cookie question

In almost all cases the sale will not be "stolen" from you. It depends on how the vendor sets up the link in his emails or other contacts with your lead. Most will do it properly so that his link is only used if there is no cookie. If he sends out emails or his free report has his affiliate link in it, then he'll take your sale.

Suggest you create a link, click on it. then sign up for his news letter and report and see what happens.

I would suggest that you should sign up for free report and then see what happens. But i'm sure that you will get your commission.

You're "sure"?!

Unlike you, I've actually tested a randomly selected cross-section of those products (as I've explained and discussed in other threads), in different popular niches, and the results were that only about 15% of the time, there was no attempt by vendors to overwrite the original affiliate's cookie.

So while you're "sure", I find there's an 85% chance of the exact opposite, myself.

It's a 60-day cookie.

The answer is that there's no way of knowing. You'd be totally dependent on the vendor, with no way to verify what's happening, and ClickBank wouldn't be "on your side" even if you lost some/all of your commissions this way, because their official policy (and don't blame them for it: they could never enforce anything else) is that once someone opts in to the vendor, they "belong" to the vendor.

These are among the reasons why very, very few serious, professional affiliates will ever promote a product with a sales page like that.

There's a lot of misinformation around, on this subject.

This one thread is worth a long, slow, careful read-through: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oduct-opt.html

Of course, and rightly.

The limited independent reasearch I did on this showed that 85% of the time, this was exactly what was happening. It would be very naive indeed not to be concerned. And it would also be a little naive to be influenced by recently joined forum members (or anyone else) telling you that they're "sure" you'll get paid.

Specifically, don't imagine that you can somehow "guard against this" by opting in yourself, as a customer, and seeing what comes back (i.e. whether the vendor sends you any fresh affiliate links/cookies to overwrite the one already on your PC). Although suggested in two posts above, that's actually mistaken reasoning. (Explained in detail in the thread linked to above).

Let's be really unambiguous about this: though nobody can predict with certainty what will happen regarding any specific, individual product (nor can you reliably learn that, by opting in yourself), in general you often won't be paid, this way, and you should expect, overall, to lose commission income which you'd otherwise have been paid. This is clear.

You can always ask the vendor for another copy of the sales page without the opt-in. Some vendors already have one. Others will produce one for you, if you ask for it (it's very easy for them to do this).

If you ask and they really won't, then you have to ask yourself what their behavior is really telling you, and why, and then (in my opinion) find another product to promote, instead of theirs!

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

@Alexa
I've heard this before, Alexa, but it's really enlightening to read it again.

I've set up my product to pitch it over several days after they opt in, but if reliable affiliates are put off by this option, I'm going to have to offer an alternative 'one visit sale opportunity' as well.

I would never even think of stealing sales from people helping me to build my business.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

This increases the chances of a sale, and yes the 30 day tracking will work for the same browser...