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Remove aff id from clickbank landing page?

by Intrepreneur
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I've seen this done hundreds if not thousands of times where when you clik through on a clickbank aff link upon landing on the page there is no affiliate ID on the end of the url on the salespage.

Now it has me wondering how do I do this?
#aff #clickbank #landing #page #remove
  • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
    I use Ninja Link Cloaker - Advanced Affiliate Link Cloaker
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  • Profile picture of the author Stefan Vee
    The easiest way to do this is by setting a cookie, then just link to the sales page.
    It's against clickbank TOS, but since the "Ninja" is sold through CB, I am not sure if they are using the cookie approach as well...
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by Stefan Vee View Post

      The easiest way to do this is by setting a cookie, then just link to the sales page.
      It's against clickbank TOS though.
      Mmm it seems by readin the salespage of ninja cloaker that it is quite the same idea as setting a cookie so I would be breaking TOS.

      hmmm
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        You can do some forwarding and masking with a domain that you own. The new domain will appear in the address bar, but no affiliate link.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
    "forcing the cookie" is not interfering with tracking if you do it correctly, so should not be a problem with CB's TOS. This is an example of legitimate "cookie stuffing".
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

      "forcing the cookie" is not interfering with tracking if you do it correctly, so should not be a problem with CB's TOS. This is an example of legitimate "cookie stuffing".
      WOW nice information... Im not sure I know how to do this tho.

      Anyhow, I have another question about this and I just wish I could find the page I seen it on..

      I seen a link that didnt seem to be generated by any cloaking software..

      It was the clicbank vendors salespage URL..

      hyyp://thesalespageurl.com/aff?=id

      It wasnt exactly like that but I seen this a few times and when clicking through there was no awful =affid at the end of the salespage URL...

      Anyone know anything about that technique?
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      • Profile picture of the author Michele Miller
        I think you'd like Affiliate Cloner, it has a special feature for Clickbank links as well. It's very popular. You can find it at: http://www.affiliatecloner.com (not my affiliate link).

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      • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
        Originally Posted by Intrepreneur View Post

        WOW nice information... Im not sure I know how to do this tho.

        Anyhow, I have another question about this and I just wish I could find the page I seen it on..

        I seen a link that didnt seem to be generated by any cloaking software..

        It was the clicbank vendors salespage URL..

        hyyp://thesalespageurl.com/aff?=id

        It wasnt exactly like that but I seen this a few times and when clicking through there was no awful =affid at the end of the salespage URL...

        Anyone know anything about that technique?
        You can do this with a 2 step process. here's how I've done it in the past:

        I used the typical forwarding script in a 'recommends' directory on my site.
        But here's what I do differently. instead of using a php server side redirect, I use a client side redirect set on a 3 second timer (you can use javascript, or a meta refresh). On the redirect page, I have 'please wait while we redirect you' type of message along wiht an animated 'scanning' type of gif image. During that 3 second pause, I force the CB cookie to the browser (google search on 'cookie stuffing' to see how). For the redirect, you can just use the normal sales page link.
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        • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
          Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

          use, I force the CB cookie to the browser (google search on 'cookie stuffing' to see how). For the redirect, you can just use the normal sales page link.
          This is cool, but the seconds wait is still pertaining to be an issue for me..

          The reason being is because I've seen it done better where there is no wait and you don't see the redirect page at all..

          But other than that, very sound advice.. Im just testing it here now.
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  • Profile picture of the author pjCheviot
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    How about ReDirect-A-Link - Hide your links and keep your commissions!! ?
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  • Profile picture of the author CJontheweb
    I don't like the idea of a link cloaker because then it will have the link cloakers link, well least all the ones I've tried did.
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      This is easy to do with a little bit of Javascript. Simply paste the following bit of code into the <head> section of your landing page...

      Code:
      <script type="text/javascript">
var yourdomain="http://www.yourdomain.com";
var url=top.location.toString();
if(url.indexOf('hop')>-1){
   top.location.href=yourdomain;
}
</script>
      Be sure to change the part in red to your actual domain name.
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      • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
        Originally Posted by Brandon Tanner View Post

        This is easy to do with a little bit of Javascript. Simply paste the following bit of code into the <head> section of your landing page...

        Code:
        <script type="text/javascript">
var yourdomain="http://www.yourdomain.com";
var url=top.location.toString();
if(url.indexOf('hop')>-1){
   top.location.href=yourdomain;
}
</script>
        Be sure to change the part in red to your actual domain name.
        What exactly does that do? I am unfamiliar with these variables and am too lazy to look it up

        TomG.
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        • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
          Originally Posted by tommygadget View Post

          What exactly does that do? I am unfamiliar with these variables and am too lazy to look it up

          TomG.
          I don't think it does what Im asking for.. looks to be for the people who own the salespages not the affiliates directing to the salespage.
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          • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
            Originally Posted by Intrepreneur View Post

            I don't think it does what Im asking for.. looks to be for the people who own the salespages not the affiliates directing to the salespage.
            Correct. To my knowledge, unless you use frames (which are against ClickBank's TOS), it's not possible to do this from the affiliate side.

            @ Tom G...

            The script simply looks to see if 'hop' is contained anywhere in the incoming URL, and if so it simply rewrites the URL shown in the address bar to www.yourwebsite.com. This works great, because it still allows cookies to be set.
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          • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
            Originally Posted by Intrepreneur View Post

            This is cool, but the seconds wait is still pertaining to be an issue for me..

            The reason being is because I've seen it done better where there is no wait and you don't see the redirect page at all..

            But other than that, very sound advice.. Im just testing it here now.
            I used the delay just to make sure the cookie actually has a chance to get set. I also had some other tracking code on the page I used for creating dynamic TID's, so again I had to make sure it had time to execute.

            You could test shorter delays, and leave the page blank.
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      • Profile picture of the author halcline
        Hi,

        This code is not working for me. Page just ends up as blank and does not forward to the clickbank page.


        any ideas what the problem could be?

        hal
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        • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
          Originally Posted by halcline View Post

          Hi,

          This code is not working for me. Page just ends up as blank and does not forward to the clickbank page.


          any ideas what the problem could be?

          hal
          Which one are you using the jump script or the cgi script?
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          • Profile picture of the author halcline
            It's been a few days. and I dont' know which script I'm using. What its doing is fowarding to the Clickbank product page, but my hop=clickbankName is still training off the domain.
            how can I hide this?

            hal
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
    BTW- while testing some other things, I did notice that not all hoplinks end up appending the aff id onto the url of the landing page. It's been a while since I set up a product in CB, and I've only done it once, but I'm thinking there's an option to have various data forwarded to your landing page like this.
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

      BTW- while testing some other things, I did notice that not all hoplinks end up appending the aff id onto the url of the landing page. It's been a while since I set up a product in CB, and I've only done it once, but I'm thinking there's an option to have various data forwarded to your landing page like this.
      Thats an interesting find, I thought that as sometimes my links dont transfer that information either and they haven't been setup in any specific way.

      I just found the perfect solution to the problems and it was exactly the way I wanted to do the whole time, a .cgi file that uses the vendors id and automatically does to that page straight from my own URL.

      Very cool, I like it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zanti
    Would you care to share your solution?
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
    that just looks like the normal php redirect.. it won't drop any of the appended values of the aff link
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

      that just looks like the normal php redirect..
      Yup but it doesnt have any delay which is great and it means all my affiliate links are in one place if they ever need changed..

      Give it a go, you'll like it and how simple it is.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
    the method I was talking about with the delay was specificly to set the cookie before the redirect happened (which requires a client side redirect), letting you use a clean, non affiliate link for the redirect itself - so "there is no affiliate ID on the end of the url on the salespage"

    If you don't need all the junk dropped off the end, then yes you can just use a normal 'server side' php redirect.
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

      the method I was talking about with the delay was specificly to set the cookie before the redirect happened (which requires a client side redirect), letting you use a clean, non affiliate link for the redirect itself - so "there is no affiliate ID on the end of the url on the salespage"

      If you don't need all the junk dropped off the end, then yes you can just use a normal 'server side' php redirect.
      I found a nice cgi script you might want to use instead.. that is extremely simple to use.

      With the jump script it is cool for linking to pages that do no append your affid on the end of the url.
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