I have read several posts and other blogs who talk about direct linking to to a vendors clickbank checkout page. Does it still work? How do you do it? - I seem to fail on every method i've tried, sends no value I know it still works because of this website: http://www.dp-db.com/easy-web-video-v2f-software He has a link to product page and another link that is "buy now" that links directly to the checkout page and still drops the affiliate cookie. If anyone can shed some light on it, that would be great.
This is the format to follow http://clickbank.net/sell.cgi?(youraffid)_(vendor)/1/1 There is an underscore between your affiliate id and the vendor id This will usually work, unless the vendor has more than one product on the same account, which then you have to change one of the 1's I forget which one.
If you want to send someone to the pay page directly without viewing the potential customer viewing the sales page use a link in the following format: ProductNumber.youraffiliateid_productname.pay.clickbank.net Example (your affid in this case in johndoe) http://1.johndoe_water4gas.pay.clickbank.net The problem with this method is that you don't set an cookie in the browser of the viewer. Meaning if he comes back later to purchase you will not get the commission. Also if the user has a pre-existing cookie for the same product from another affiliate, than the other affiliates gets the sale even though you're the one redirecting to the pay page. The only way to send the user to the pay page so that the user gets your cookie is to stuff a cookie. Cookie stuffing is considered blackhat and it is against Clickbank TOS so I wouldn't advice you to do it. I think what you should do is convince the user to buy the product on your web page, then let him visit the sales page with your affiliate link, and buy the product that way.
Doesn't cookie the user - So there's no point in doing that. You might as well send them to http://1.vendor.pay.clickbank.net ^ That's the only way There's so much talk about http://1.affiliate_vendor.pay.clickbank.net but as Ripped clearly explained - it's BS!
And the worst fact is that it simply lowers your conversions drastically. I recommend you use a landing page for the highest conversion rates, and that goes for pretty much all niches. Al.
I am using a landing page, the landing page the vendor has is poor, the landing page i have created is cleaner, better looking and has proven successful with other products from other companies. I have now sorted this problem out, i now have it setting the cookie and directing to the checkout. Thank you to everybody who offered help.
I think you may be confusing "landing page" and "sales page"? Al is absolutely right. Your conversion rate will always be better if you have your own landing page which people approach before reaching the vendor's sales page.
Sorry, Yes i meant the vendors sales page. I will be using my page as the landing page for PPC campaigns which then offers a buy it now link direct from the clickbank checkout and another link offering more information that directs to the original sales page. The vendors sales page is poor in my opinion and i feel my design will have better results. Which is why i wanted to bypass there sales pitch altogether.
Might be a little off topic here but just helping you guys out.. I have been marketing clickbank for more than one year now, and what I finally realized is that I have lost a five figure number only in the last year alone from one SINGLE mistake .. I haven't used lists and that is pretty sad actually, because my overall profit for 2009 with clickbank would have been at least five times as it was, just by implementing email marketing in my campaigns. I have only realized my mistake once I have started to use capture forms on my landing pages. So yeah, you guys need a landing page to turn higher conversions. On the long run, using landing pages with an email capture form is a vital strategy for an solid business online. I am soon to become a vendor and already tested a few things here and there, and once again I can say that having your own landing page and capturing emails for future leads can increase your income at least five times. Hope this helps you guys. Al.
I want to learn something, how can we prevent to lose customer while capturing emails? i mean is there any way to do it with order page, -while customer buying product also capturing email? something like that =)) -Are you suggest email capturing as an another part of selling product before order ?, before sell it capture email first? how? Thank you
I don't know of a way to do that as an affiliate (and can't think of one). I try to do that by having an opt-in, in exchange for a "free report", on all my landing-pages. You can get some of them that way. Alternatively, you can have a landing-page that's just a squeeze page, as some affiliates do. You build a bigger list that way, I'm sure, but possibly at the expense of a few immediate sales you'd have made with a different type of landing-page. The argument (and it may be a largely valid and correct one) is that anyone who would have bought immediately and goes on your list instead will become a subsequent sale anyway, after receiving your autoresponder email by opting in. The potential problem with this approach is that if you're using double opt-in (which not everyone does in every niche), there'll always be some who put their email address in the box but never complete the second stage of the opt-in, and one might be losing a quick sale or two that way.