Anybody Know What Happened To The Diet Solution on Clickbank?

No clue, but it may have been removed for violation of terms. I think products can get removed for various reasons. Maybe it had a high refund rate?

If you go through the pages, you'll notice you can still buy it. And even though the checkout page looks like Clickbank's- it's not.

So... I'm guessing either 1 of 2 things happened:

1) Clickbank kicked them off for some reason, or
2) They were tired of Clickbank's high fees and decided to go it alone

I don't see a link to sign up as an affiliate either, so it could be they got tired of using affiliates? I know a few vendors that don't use affiliates anymore, due to CC fraud issues.

Probably another crummy workout/diet program that doesn't work effectively... or it's just info you could get from BB.com or any other fitness site for free in just as little time.

Either that or they've been doing naughties somehow.

Not sure exactly but one of my clients was promoting this system. Apparently they received an email telling them that the hoplinks will be transferred to a similar offer but as of now the links are just giving errors.

This means we now need to find a new program to promote and change all links to the new program. She also has about 50 blog posts in which the links are scattered randomly.

What a headache :-/

The affiliate page for the The Diet Solution has warned against advertising on the Google network (i.e Adwords etc.) for at least 6 months.

This suggests that The Diet Solution is dodgy in some way, and that Clickbank has now dropped it.

Seems to me that this product has violated Clickbank's terms.

It can also be that they had a high refund rate and Clickbank was just sick of it.

There are a few products that I have been promoting and some of them have got the same issue.

I wasn't aware of this until today. Jeff Siegel (the marketer behind Isabel) is like the darling of CB, so I can't imagine they did something to get dropped. They have showered him with CB awards, use him to speak at their events, etc.

This is interesting news for those of us that have products in that niche.

And therein lies the problem. I didn't understand the explanation. But I appreciate you trying.

The most possible two reasons products get banned on Clickbank is the refund rate of the product or if Clickbank's TOS is violated by any means.

Few suggest that this product might have high refund rate.

I promoted this product and sold few dozen copies. Granted, my data is small, but I never had a single refund.

Beachbody seems to have done the same thing. Used to allow ppc on the various cpa netoworks and now they don't. Obviously they've figured out how to manage their own PPC campaigns...

it's amazing to me how much speculation and false information is on this forum sometimes.
Being as how I taught Jeff years ago and know him personally.. let me just put this to rest for you guys.

(even if this thread got bumped years later.. whatever)

Years ago, Jeff got into running media buying for his own offer. He was running ads on places like the front page of Msn.com and he was getting UNREAL traffic. Like 50,000+ clicks a day from just 1 of his banners.

And making several million dollars from that alone.

And when you're driving your own massive paid traffic.. you realize that affiliates can be a pain in the ass sometimes and and are not all it's cracked up to be.

Some affiliates are divas. They want you to bend over backwards for them. And MANY affiliates are involved in questionable activities.. Running ads for 'don't buy product x, it's a scam!' , misleading people/making false claims just to try to get the sale.. or making some garbage landing page that says Dr. OZ and Oprah endorse your product..


Not many affiliates realize how damaging this is to a merchant. Not only is it unethical, but the vendor becomes completely liable for your dumb mistakes and you BOTH could get taken to court for it.

Not only that, but here's the real clencher.. Getting affiliates is EXPENSIVE. In fact, it's one of the most expensive traffic methods out there..

And I know you're probably thinking.. what the heck? Affiliates are FREE?! how could it be the most expensive traffic method?

Most people don't get this point. And that's because many vendors don't know a thing about running their own traffic. But when you're running your own paid traffic.. this becomes painfully clear.

Let's say for example that I have an offer on Clickbank.. and in order to entice affiliates to promote my offer that I have to give them 65-75% commissions.

And just for demonstrations purpose, let's say my sales price was for $100.. so hypothetically, I would give affilaites up to $75 per sale..

So is it free to get an affiliate? No. becuase if he makes a sale, you are paying him $75!
Sure, you're not paying for it upfront until he makes the sale.. but at the end of the day, you are still paying $75 for each $100 sale that he brings in..

had I just focused on driving my own paid traffic.. even if I paid $50 in traffic to make 1 sale.. Bigger picture that would be WAY better.. not only do I keep more money but I also don't have to deal with affiliates or any of their bs.. and now I can control the whole sales process.

And this is why they decided to heck with affilaites and instead just focused on just exploding their own paid traffic. Less headache. More money.

End of story.

There's no need for any other conspiracy theories.

Just wondering why they wouldn't have done this from the beginning??

Why even bother giving away so much money promoting a program on clickbank if you could just have easily done it yourself?

Also wonder why none of these fitness programs ever advertise on facebook.. BeyondDiet only does google adwords