I have a product I am selling through clickbank. I have google analytics installed on my thank you page, and it shows I have had 25 downloads in the last three days, and Not a single sale. I have put in nofollow, robots tag, I have changed the name three times and still get downloads and no actual sales. Clickbank says its my problem and not theirs. What should I do? Thanks
Did you filtered your IP/City in Google Analytics? Because GA will detect your visits. So maybe this are your own visits.
have you implemented the link security script on your download page? https://www.clickbank.com/vendor_tools.html#Vendor_Tools_7 This only allows people who have purchased your product (by validating a string sent by cb after payment) to view the download page.
just wrote up some instructions in a new thread see here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1282802
Dave, I just read your instructions and left a message there... I guess LivingLegend has answered part of the question I left for you. My question about your instructions, then is this: Would I have to spend time "approving" everyone who buys the ebook? Does the security key coding take away the Instant Download ability from customers?
Nope, the secret key is always sent by cb when redirecting a customer to your download page. You do not have to approve each customer purchase, it is done automatically. So you just sit back and see everything resuming as normal while having this extra level of protection.
I never really understood how google spider and hackers find download pages. Really if you think about it, there is no way they can find it UNLESS you are linking to it from one of your sites or someone posted the direct link somewhere on the internet. It's simply impossible someone can find your link if you've used a weird html name for the thankyou page like: thanky321.html IMO DlGuard and other "download protection" programs really are useless...
Jose, I'm pretty mystified by this, too. Flip told me on Dave's thread that he was able to find my PDF (just to prove to me that he could). I think your point is well taken about making sure you use a weird name for that download page / PDF. My URL's name is long, but has a hyphen between Thank and You. I'll bet Google ignores the hyphen, thus making my Thank-You-XXXXX-XXX-XXXX title discoverable. Arrgggh! I'm getting a site re-design right now, so have pulled everything down off the 'net. When it goes back up this weekend, I will have this totally resolved.
Correct me if I am wrong but your robots.txt file lets the spiders know which files/directories to index and which ones not to. If you put your download page in a particular directory you can tell the spiders not to index it. You also don't have to give the full name of the directory, example: mysite.com/don*. In this example the spiders won't index any directory that starts with "don".
It's far from impossible to find download pages. Alexa is a big one as they tend to spider everything including download pages so it makes no difference what weird name you use, if it can be spidered then it can be easily found on the net. DlGuard is far from being useless, in fact I would rate it as the number one script to keep your downloads secure. You can be given the download URL for any product that uses DLguard but unless you have a receipt number and email address then there is absolutely no way you are getting the download.