Yeah, I agree with whoever said it's clickbank! He was spot on! Every fricking time they update their system sales suck for a week or 2. When you rely on PPC that really hurts!!!!!
did anyone here contacted them? i know its useless and they will reply with their usual answer: "if you are having problems getting sales try advertising on magazines bla bla" and shit like that...but anyways did someone got a reply from them ?
I wrote in some other thread that probably we (affiliates) should get together and force CB to take us more seriously. Until then, we will always be getting those "it is your f...ng problem" responses from CB.
whats that suppose to mean? they have a problem and they dont want to tell out what is it or they just said they have no problem at all? do you mind posting their exact reply here? im sure it will clarify lot of things to everyone
Basically I got no answers.. they went over my account.. said all the hoplinks are working.. the analytics are working.. basically telling me everything I already knew. They just said that the conversion is a lot lower and they don't have an answer for it.
They said they recieved a lot of calls similar to mine.. and they admit to the huge decrease in conversions since the update.
aha.. right on the ball.. low conversions since update... and i thought i was going mad... now that i know i have to be really cautious with CB and PPC... article marketing is totally a separate issue.
i wonder whats the nature of these damn updates and who they hire to carry them out. clickbank is a small company in the sence of development team, around 10 developers or so i heard. they should hire experienced people since from what i can understand, their team is made of inexperienced/students that for every update they take longer each time and screw something in the middle. Any serious company that have so much capital should "invest" some money in those people that take care of the system, if not for us, for themselves since low sales mean less money for them. It appears that they dont have a development enviroment where they test any new updates before they set them on live. Either that or they have something to hide like for example they get hacked frequently and obviously they hide it.....
haha.. good one... i've also just emailed them to add a bit more pressure on their side.. they have to figure out what's wrong.. in worst case scenario all they have to do is rollback to the previous version.. not so hard to do if you keep versions of your code properly.
i just email them too...i doubt that they have a previous version. Its a shame that they dominate this market in such a way and there is no decent alternative....maybe thats why they can "afford" to have these fuck ups and still stay in business...
Yes im the one who said this but whats even worse is half the people on this board (other threads) bashed me saying its all in my head, your just slacking, saying clickbank never messes up. I mean I know ive been complaining a shitload about this, but i do have the right to, one of the lead affiliate marketing companies should not be malfunctioning like this. And for anyone else who tells me stop complaining and do somemore work, I did 5 times more work today then i normally do. I wrote 20 articles and cant type another word tonight about my niches so leave me alone
Also, When any signs of normal sales start to come back someone please update us. I dont make enough sales a day to no when things are back to normal. Thanks Everyone!
Whoever tell you that its in your head tell them to get screwed.... i really cant stay these type of people that because they are fine they think that everyone is. clickbank is made of people too, they can make mistakes as well, in fact they do have problems often and its no secret..... whats the probability that clickbank is fine and we are not every single time? very slim indeed..especially because we are not talking about a single person that screwed something by mistake...we are talking about dosens of people in here alone....apart from clickbank saying that its true that sales dropped after the update so wt*? are we still all wrong and its our mind? ....as if!
i know how much this has hurt everyone.. I was hit hard myself we should think of away not too be to reliant on CB.. this way next time they fck up again we wont be hit so hard. it's a good idea to give a shout here when some one thinks CB is back to normal again.