I can never understand why in the space of a week order form impressions drop by massive amounts and of course sales drop as well. Its the same traffic, the same adverts and yet in the last week "order form impressions" drop massive amounts. Week 22nd April to 29th April Hops per order form impressions - 22 29th April to 5th May Hops per order form impressions - 114 Its gone from: hops per order - 140 to Hops per order - 1010 Thats a massive drop in conversion rates with no real reason behind it. Its just another clickbank flat spot. I just don't understand why it happens, it makes no sense? Anyone else noticing this?
Yes, there could be a few reasons, but this totally depends on the type of product you're promoting... what are you promoting? Generally, and I say 'generally', because this could vary for many products, the April-June period is quite low in terms of sales, well for the products I promote. Tax period The weak US dollar could be affecting sales: people don't want to buy Your ClickBank account is not working properly, sometimes this happens with ClickBank accounts. This is all I can think of, if you're sales are being affected, then generally it is an issue with the macro environment (external factors) or could be because of internal factors. Ask ClickBank to review your account for any issues, because this happened before and a fault was detected within my account, and they fixed it for me. If you go to http://www.cb-analytics.com/ you will see the ClickBank index and will notice a downward trend. Hope this helps
Thanks for your reply, you have made some very good points. But this I don't understand how there could be a fault with the account, what type of fault can suddenly stop me making commissions? Anyway thanks again, I guess I will have to contact them...
Yep well after sending them an email questioning my drop in sales, the day I sent it things have returned to normal. I think it must be quite easy to divert commissions from account to another if you are in charge of the payment system. My stats did not make any sense, my order form impressions almost totally disappeared for no reason. There definitely needs to be tighter regulation of companies like clickbank to make sure that nothing shady is going on.
I don't know if something shady is going on there but I do know their system is crap, I have a standard email that I send every month to clickbank just in case. I had weeks of no sales, and all of a sudden after sending the "email" the sales were back. My be i'll create a uBot to do it
That's sure weird. If you have experience in affiliate marketing, you'd know either most or all affiliate managers shave, the only difference is some do it blatantly some don't. That's the conclusion I come up.
Lets think about this claim logically. You are a vendor on clickbank that has a membership site where customers buy and register on your members database. Now for arguments sake lets say clickbank is shaving sales from you.. That would cause a situation where you have a member on your database whose sale is unaccounted for. Now this person contacts you with a question or refund request or whatever.. will you not see this distortion of no sale and active member immedietly? I thought about this a long time ago, there is no way clickbank can shave sales off of vendors without them noticing , however, what clickbank CAN do is create phantom affiliate id's and divert sales from real affiliates to phantom affiliates which are actually clickbank and no one would know (affiliate will not know he had a sale and the vendor can't know who his affiliates are). my 2 cents..