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When you use Tiny URL to cloak a hoplink URL, how can you be sure your Clickbank id is embedded in it? When Clickbank gets it, how does Clickbank see your id? Anyone know? Maybe I am being too analytical!
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  • Profile picture of the author radhika
    Your tiny url takes visitor to the actual clicbank hoplink (assuming you entered it exactly to create your tinyurl). So once the CB hoplink is unmasked, it will set up cookie on vistors computer.

    Tinyurl don't take away your affiliate id. It just hides the link UNTIL your visitor clicks on it.

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    • Profile picture of the author malfumos
      Using tinyurl site is very great when selling an affiliate product because it hides your affiliate id. You will have a clicked if ever the visitor will click on the link. It is nice to use tinyurl because the person will directly click on the link because they were conscious what is inside of the url.
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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    You can always check it by clicking on the link yourself and check that it is your hop-link that shows up in the address bar.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebScript
    No, you are not being too analytical ... but I am ...

    Take an example ClickBank affiliate link:
    "http://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net"

    You go to Tinyurl and enter that link and get link like:
    "http://tinyurl.com/blahdblah"

    When someone visits that link, Tinyurl responds with a 301 redirect to the url:
    "http://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net"

    The HTTP Request (from the browser to Tinyurl.com) looks like this:
    Code:
    GET /blahdblah HTTP/1.1
Host: tinyurl.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; ... ...)
...
...
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
    And the HTTP Response (from Tinyurl.com back to the browser) looks like this:
    Code:
    HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Location: http://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net/
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 05:21:25 GMT
Server: TinyURL/1.6
    When your browser receives the redirect, it automatically visits the new link as shown in:
    "Location: http://affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net/"

    Here is how you can test this...

    You'll have to use real ClickBank vendor and affiliate nicknames for this to work, otherwise you will probably just get an error page...

    1) Pick a ClickBank product and get the vendor nickname
    2) Create your hoplink like: "http://yourcbnickname.vendor.hop.clickbank.net/"
    3) Create your Tinyurl like: "http://tinyurl.com/blahdblah/"
    4) Visit the link: "http://vendor.vendor.hop.clickbank.net"
    5) Notice vendor is there twice ... this will "Clear" the affiliate cookie for the vendor/product
    6) Click on the order button/link on the salespage or visit "http://1.vendor.pay.clickbank.net/"
    7) Look at the bottom of the ClickBank order page, you'll see:
    [affiliate = none]

    This verifies that the "Affiliate" cookie is now "cleared".

    8) Then, visit the Tinyurl link you created
    9) Click on the order button/link or visit "http://1.vendor.pay.clickbank.net/" again
    10) Look at the bottom of the ClickBankorder page again, you'll see:
    [affiliate = yourcbnickname]

    This verifies that the "Affiliate" cookie is now set with "yourcbnickname".

    Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr McDonald
    Click on the link from tiny url, it should take you to your hoplink page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shakul
    Hello.

    Go to TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL

    And it will show to which url it is pointing.

    Regards
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