Using Clickbank vendor provided pages

Friend,

you should actually just get your affiliate link, or, in Clickbank's terms, your Hop Link.

This link is where your clients will click. Then, their own software will sort out that it was you who sent the click, and, if a sale is made, the program knows that the commission goes out to you.

The sales page and everything else is the same for everyone, and is hosted by the vendor himself.

Make sure you cloak your link to make it less affiliate-sy, too.

So, either get a domain related to the product, or a general domain... or even use bit.ly or whatever.

If you go looking around the forum, tehre are awesome tutorials and products teaching everything about Clickbank.

Good luck and good sales!

Be very careful what you use to cloak your links. Bitly will throw up a warning page on a lot of CB links.

I hope this is sarcasm, otherwise you are clueless.

So I assume I make my own squeeze/sales page and link to the vendors sales page but how do I change my hoplink on the vendor page so I get commission? I have spent hours trying to figure this out and it is frustrating so any help is appreciated.

Why have they paid me so much over the years? On time, every time. Are you saying I should be making even more than I do?

Clueless.

We'll call such a vendor-provided sales page the affiliate sales page, and we'll call the vendor's own sales page the vendor sales page.

If you use the affiliate sales page, you'll have to use a custom pay link for the order button:

http://ITEMNUMBER.AFFNAME_VENDORNAME.pay.clickbank.net

So if the item number is 1, your affiliate name is jack, and the vendor name is jill, this is what you'd have:

http://1.jack_jill.pay.clickbank.net

Such custom pay links allow you to bypass the vendor sales page and go directly to the order form. If your order button were to use your affiliate hoplink instead of the custom pay link, clicking the order button would take the prospect to the vendor sales page, resulting in two sales pitches -- obviously a problem.

Bypassing the vendor sales page may be a good idea if the vendor sales page sucks. You'd use your own sales page, not an affiliate sales page. Why? Well, if the affiliate sales page is different from the vendor sales page, it's unlikely going to convert better. And if the affiliate sales page is the same as the vendor sales page, why bother with the whole exercise in the first place?

If you do bypass the vendor sales page, there are two problems having to do with the fact that the custom pay link doesn't store the required cookie for getting your commission:

(1) If the prospect abandons the order form with the intention to return later, you're going to have to hope he or she returns to your site, as opposed to, say, Googling the product name and arriving at the vendor's site. Otherwise, you're not going to be credited with the sale.

(2) If the prospect already has some other affiliate's cookie on his or her computer when ordering, you're not going to be credited with the sale, period. Normally your affiliate hoplink would overwrite the other affiliate's cookie with your own cookie, but the custom pay link does no such thing, so when the customer goes through the custom pay link, the other affiliate's name will be at the bottom of the order form, which I think means the other affiliate will end up with the sale.

If you're having trouble with that, I honestly think you should just focus on using the affiliate hoplink for now, not bothering with those vendor-provided pages.

I think you have them confused with somebody else.

Clickbank is based on payment for sales referrals not clicks,

There is no concept of "invalid clicks" or "legitimate clicks" in clickbank.

Clickbank vendors have no role I'm deciding or controlling which affiliates are paid.

Clickbank affiliates are paid for all sales referrals tracked by the system.

Oh, really? Didn't know that, thanks for the heads up. Definetely, using your own domain is the best option.