Affiliate Guide

1) How ClickBank Works

2) Free Affiliate ID Manager Software

3) Operating An Affiliate Account

4) Promoting Products

5) Software Tools For Affiliates

6) More Tips For Affiliates

7) Free Affiliate ID Manager

How ClickBank Works

Anyone can join ClickBank as an affiliate – it’s free. When you
find a product that you wish to promote, either at a vendor’s
website or by searching through the ClickBank Marketplace, you will
be given a unique link which you use to bring customers to the
product page.

For a detailed explanation click to the Affiliate section at the ClickBank site.

Free Affiliate ID Manager

Operating An Affiliate
Account

Opening an account

The first thing you need to do is to sign up for a ClickBank
account. This information is needed so that ClickBank can send you
payments. It’s free to open an account and very simple.

Getting paid

Payment is sent at pay period end time which
is every 2 weeks. You need to have received 3 pay checks before you
can opt for direct deposit and receive payment every week.
Full details of the ClickBank Paycheck Policy here

Tip: you can alter the minimum payment
setting (default $100) in your account. But note that a $2.50
accounting fee is deducted from each check issued.

Promoting Products

Now you are ready to promote ClickBank products and earn
commission.

Choosing the product

To see the complete range visit the ClickBank Marketplace.

The MarketPlace listings are ranked by popularity, so you can
easily see which are the in-demand items.

Against each entry is a Create Hoplink link which provides you with
your affiliate link and the rate of commission you receive on selling that item.

You should aim for products with a reasonable rate of
commission, no lower than 25%, to make your efforts worthwhile. Be
aware that ClickBank deducts transaction fees from a sale: here is
a calculator showing the actual
commission paid.

NOTE: For a much more extensive search
facility use the free ClickBank Product Selector in section 5.4
below.

Check the sales page

Visit the sales page of the product to confirm that the sales
copy does a good job of selling the product but even more important
that your chances of making a sale are not reduced by the following
factors

1. There are many external links which distract the visitor from
reaching the order page

2. There are offers to join a mailing list or claim a free
report which might mean that the vendor could later follow up
these leads but you would not receive commission

3. An overt link to an affiliate sign up page: your potential
customer could simply become an affiliate and purchase the product
himself

4. The vendor offers multiple payment options so if ClickBank
is not chosen you do not get the commission

5. The vendor uses a pop up upon exiting a site to convert a
leaving visitor into a sale that does not use ClickBank

If you still want to promote such a product you can advise the
vendor to use the ideas in this article How To Stop ClickBank Link Theft

Check the ClickBank order page

Visit the order page and ensure that your nickname appears in
the [affiliate= ] line at the bottom of the order page. If
not then you may have incorrectly formatted your link or it’s
possible that the affiliate program has been discontinued. Or, the
affiliate program is only for selected items at the site not the
one you have chosen.

Similarly you should periodically check that your links are
working. ClickBank does not have a method to inform affiliates and
vendors that links that they set up are not working

Product
Links

There are 3 ways you may wish to link to a product

• The basic link to a ClickBank item

  http://AFFILIATE.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net

• A link to a specific product page, useful when a vendor has
  multiple products in one ClickBank account. If the vendor is
  using affiliate management software there should be provision for
  this. Otherwise see the software tool Affiliate Cloner in section below.
• A link to the order form – so that you can bypass the
  vendor’s sales page. Details here.

Commission
priority rule

If a customer has visited a sales page on more than one
occasion, as a result of following links supplied by different
affiliates, the rule is that the last affiliate gets the
commission.

Additional ClickBank links

Here are some further links you can provide to your visitors.
Replace AFFILIATE with your nickname to ensure you get the
appropriate credit when the links are followed through.

1) ClickBank Signup Form

http://AFFILIATE.reseller.hop.clickbank.net

2) ClickBank Marketplace

http://AFFILIATE.marketplace.hop.clickbank.net

(Note: a more profitable method is to use a ClickBank Storefront below).

Software Tools For
Affiliates

Affiliate Link
Cloaking

Affiliate Cloner is a tool which provides solutions to 3 common
problems:

1. The great advantage of ClickBank – the ease of signing up as
an affiliate for a product – is also a weakness. It is very easy
for another to replace your affiliate nickname and claim your
commission. Affiliate Cloner can disguise (cloak) your affiliate
links.

2. It provides a way to link to an order page (so that you can
bypass the vendor’s sales page).

3. It provides a way to link to a specific product page when a
vendor has multiple products in one ClickBank account.

Find more about Affiliate Cloner here.

ClickBank Storefronts

In addition to offering individual products you can link to a storefront containing the MarketPlace
products – each one encoded with your own affiliate link.

Here is a selection of storefronts.

Affiliate sales reporting

You can get extensive reports on all your affiliate sales using
3rd party tools here.

ClickBank Program Selector

You can run keyword searches for programs, and obtain extensive
information on commission details and ranking history with these tools.

Sales Tracking

For information on how to test and track the results of your
advertising click here.

CBListAutomator

This product lets ClickBank affiliates deliver add-on bonuses automatically. Click here.

More Tips For Affiliates

How to stop ClickBank link theft

See this article

Become an affiliate expert

Learn from the experts of affiliate marketing – here is a selection of free and paid books
and reports.

Recommended affiliate programs

Click here

 

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