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cloak link clickbank?

by espresso
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Hi how do I cloak the hop url in click bank
I noticed when I click on my affiliate link

In the url bar it says website.com/?hop=username

Thanks
#clickbank #cloak #link
  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    If you do not have too many links, use a meta refresh page off your domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author espresso
    This is the actual vendors site not my hyper link
    Its part of my sales funnal
    When person downloads my give away it opens a click bank offer but that url has my hop link on it
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  • Profile picture of the author SunilTanna
    It needs to be done at the vendor's site.

    You could try framing the vendor's site, but you need to check that both clickbank and the vendor are okay with that - I 'm not sure whether it is permissible, even if you can get framing to work.

    You should also ask the vendor to cloak the payment link on their pitch page, as otherwise somebody can simply do view source, read the clickbank vendor id and generate their own affiliate link to them.

    Cbmultilink does both btw - but the vendor, rather than the affiliate is the one who needs to use it
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    • Profile picture of the author Remy Sheppard
      What does it matter?

      The moment they go to the vendor site, your name is logged and attached to their IP via a cookie, so even if they delete that bit you'll still get credit.

      Most of the time people wont notice or care. Hell, they might expect it if you're being up front and honest about your affiliate linking policies in a TOS somewhere.
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      • Profile picture of the author writeaway
        Originally Posted by Remy Sheppard View Post

        What does it matter?

        The moment they go to the vendor site, your name is logged and attached to their IP via a cookie, so even if they delete that bit you'll still get credit.

        Most of the time people wont notice or care. Hell, they might expect it if you're being up front and honest about your affiliate linking policies in a TOS somewhere.
        It matters a lot for review sites/review blogs. People are smarter than many marketers give them credit for. They see there's a conflict of interest when they go to a review site and the product link is obviously an affiliate link. See what's wrong with this picture?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

      You could try framing the vendor's site, but you need to check that both clickbank and the vendor are okay with that - I 'm not sure whether it is permissible, even if you can get framing to work.
      It's permissible, but ClickBank staff may advise against it, referring to some wording on their site which announces it as "risky" regarding reliability of commission payments (depending on whom you speak to, there). Many people do this without apparently encountering problems, though.

      Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

      You should also ask the vendor to cloak the payment link on their pitch page, as otherwise somebody can simply do view source, read the clickbank vendor id and generate their own affiliate link to them.
      Almost nobody who's an existing ClickBank affiliate is going to buy a ClickBank product through another affiliate's hoplink, when ClickBank allows them to buy it through their own, anyway.

      Which is yet another reason (as if one were needed) for not promoting IM/MMO products from ClickBank: generating the customer is one thing: earning a commission on the sale is another matter altogether! (That's also why so many of those ClickBank IM products have such high gravities and low sales volumes: every affiliate who buys one copy through his own affiliate-link, as a customer, adds another point on to the gravity score, but it doesn't necessarily mean that anyone's actually promoting the product at all). I realise, of course, that you're already fully aware of all this, Sunil: I'm only gossipping here, for the sake of anyone much less experienced, reading the thread.
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      • Profile picture of the author thecableguy
        I may be mistaken (age) but doesn't Clickbank bust you out of an iframe when reaching the order form anyway, it would be easy to "clone" the page and collect the customers sensitive info by scammers if not.
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      • Profile picture of the author SunilTanna
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        It's permissible, but ClickBank staff may advise against it, referring to some wording on their site which announces it as "risky" regarding reliability of commission payments (depending on whom you speak to, there). Many people do this without apparently encountering problems, though.



        Almost nobody who's an existing ClickBank affiliate is going to buy a ClickBank product through another affiliate's hoplink, when ClickBank allows them to buy it through their own, anyway.

        Which is yet another reason (as if one were needed) for not promoting IM/MMO products from ClickBank: generating the customer is one thing: earning a commission on the sale is another matter altogether! (That's also why so many of those ClickBank IM products have such high gravities and low sales volumes: every affiliate who buys one copy through his own affiliate-link, as a customer, adds another point on to the gravity score, but it doesn't necessarily mean that anyone's actually promoting the product at all). I realise, of course, that you're already fully aware of all this, Sunil: I'm only gossipping here, for the sake of anyone much less experienced, reading the thread.
        Absolutely agree with everything you said.

        One addendum, having dabbled on the fringes of being as an Im vendor...

        Lots of affiliates are very lacking in basic knowledge. Anybody reading this thread, or the warrior forum regularly probably already knows more than 90% of affiliates.

        You would be surprised how many of the other 90% would be unable to substitute their own affiliate Id you even make it slightly difficult for them. that's why I saw if you can get the vendor to hide the vendor Id in the pay link, it would help. Substantially in many cases, I think.
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