I have discovered that affiliate products which I have promoted by getting up good landing page and advertsing to a small list i Have is bypassed by the prospecrtive customer going straight to clickbank and registereing a hoplink then selling it to themselves . Is there any way to guard against this ? I am not objecting to those who are using Clickbank through their own research but its annoying when you take the effort to present promote and convince others that the product is valuable and then they go to cbank. I dont know if clickbank has any rules about this Any advice please Regareds Lennie G
Let me guess, you were promoting MMO's (make money online) products? There's a good reason why those products always have huge gravity: any affiliate who isn't completely retarded will easily do the math and buy through his own link rather than your own. Buying products through one's own hoplink isn't against clickbank's TOS. They manage to secure their interests through CDR (customer distribution requirement), which does a good job of ensuring no one is tempted to register an affiliate account just to buy a single product at 75% off. In other words, sticking to non-MMO products might be the best way of making sure your prospects don't steal your commissions. Also - cloaking those hoplinks is all-around a good idea!
if ur prospective buyer is smart enough and like Smitten said, if it's MMO products then if i were the customer most probably i'll go to clickbank n do the same as u mentioned just now lol because in my head, i need to make money with small investment the best way is promoting non-MMO products, because those ppl wont understand how affiliate marketing works. i just realized on this issue few weeks ago, that's why starting this month i'd rather to focus on non-MMO stuffs
Yes, there is. Don't become an affiliate for products for which existing Clickbank affiliates are the potential customers! Here's the thing, Lennie: it specifies in Clickbank's regulations that you are allowed to buy products using your own hoplink. Anyone who already has a Clickbank account can just register a hoplink and buy it through their own link. And so they should: it's not as if they're doing anything "wrong", after all, when this is expressly allowed. And obviously they all will. (You wouldn't buy a product from Clickbank through someone else's affiliate link, would you? Neither will any other existing affiliate through yours: sorry, but that's the just the reality!). You don't have to worry about people opening Clickbank accounts and doing this, because of the Customer Distribution Requirement (which works in the affiliates' interest, of course), because effectively they won't get paid the commission they earn on just one purchase if they try that. But don't waste your time/effort/energy trying to earn affiliate commissions on sales to people who are already affiliates. There's no point in becoming an affiliate for products designed to sell to other affiliates, or even for products for which a significant proportion of the potential customers may already be affiliates!
appreciate the responses - I can see I have been a litle or a lot naive in how the system works - My learning curve has gone up a bit - regards Lennie.G