Just now I found a product to promote and wanted to test. So I ripped off the vendors website and use it as my landing page. I have not taken it online just beocs I am afraid whether it is against clickbank TOS Please some one confirm it...
No one will tolerate content ripping, if you had ripped the design then still you have to take the permission from the vendor. Most vendors do give review templates, you can just copy them but content No Way!
I would be more concerned about the law than about Clickbank's TOS! On the other hand, if you do get the vendor's consent, I wouldn't expect Clickbank's TOS to be a problem anyway. They won't be even remotely interested either way (is my guess).
Most vendors dont mind as long as it helps making them money, but always ask for their permission. Not everyone is so linear and happy when they see their content ripped apart.
The vendor is the copyright owner for that content. Ripping it off is theft. It's probably a good idea to email the vendor and ask or you could find yourself in some trouble.
Ask the vendor. But I'll tell you that I get a lot of SEO from my sales pages - all those related keywords on a single page. I tell my affiliates NOT to rip my page off for this reason. Sure, use it for ideas and rewrite but don't rip it off.
I totally agree. Who's got a problem if you're making more sales for them?? He'd be an absolute jerk if he goes around and says you took content off his site. What is possible is that the merchant might be a lil' bad and might not pay you on the context that you ripped content off the site. So to stay safe, just talk to the vendor.
Yes you are right, one who is serious about his business will never permit to copy a sales page. For one single affiliate or for few sale vendor will not risk his seo efforts.
I would recommend NOT to rip it exactly for the following 2 reasons. 1. There's no point. Your surfer will read your page then be sent to a page with the exact same content? This will bore the surfer and make the surfer wonder why the 2 pages are the same.. Your goal is to make the surfer think about the benefits of the product, not the advertising technique. A landing page should "soften" the readers better senses and attract his/her interest. When they go to the vendors page, they read a little bit more and get convinced. Duplicating the vendors writing does not support this philosophy. Your conversions will probably be much lower. 2. Search engines will view your page as "Duplicate Content". This will result in a lot LESS search engine traffic and natural hits. It may even invoke penalties. A better approach is to read the vendors page thoroughly and make a list of supporting info you can expand upon. Capitalize on filling the gaps that the vendor already set..
Here, it goes different. The vendor has given direct link to make it go to the clickbank buying page. So I just copied the website and I am using it to promote this product. When they click on Download, it goed to clickbank payment page. That is it. Will there be any problem with that? He is giving his self some templates. But they have less content. This has completely all that they need. So will there be any problem with that? More over how to contact the vendor or email him?
Ask him for consent to send the traffic directly to payment page. Clickbank don't allow this prectice and you may risk your account if the vendor complains.
But he has given that option. He has given some tempaltes and he has also given link to directly send traffic from our landing page to the payment page. Then why should he complain
You have already asked this question and many people have already answered it. Yes, it may be a problem. You have stolen copyright material. You need the vendor's permission. However many times you explain what you've done, and however much you feel it shouldn't be a problem, and however well-meaning you are, and however many different people you ask, the answer is that you need the vendor's permission. Why are you not hearing this?
Buddy, you don't understand the power of SEO and the importance of original content. If you do, you had never stated that statement for sure. Affiliates are there to increase sales but its not the whole and sole traffic driving strategy for successful business. There are tons of different ways like, PPC, SEO, Media buying etc.
He must have contact details, I think? You can't sell a product on Clickbank without giving the buyers a contact address. (Are you promoting his product without having a copy of it, and without ever having contacted him?! ) The other things you can try are:- (i) sending an email to "admin" (at) the sales-page domain-name (this might get through - some people set up a "catch-all" email address on their server) (ii) you can try "support" (at) the sales-page domain-name (this is often the address that vendors give buyers of the product for back-up) (iii) you can find another affiliate (usually - through google, by searching for the name of the product + the word "review", and he may have a way to contact the vendor) Not necessarily, Sammy. It's not as simple as that. You're missing many points. I know some vendors who would definitely have a very big problem with this, and for good and valid reasons!
I went to their sales page and wrote in contact us. It said they will reply in 48 hours. I will update you then. The reason why I wanted this instead of his templates are that, he has 4 templates. His website is a addition of all 4. If I make a campaign, they I cant give all details as in the website he has until I put all the 4 together and that does not look good. More over he has given writeups, banners, templates, etc,. His tempates are just cutting his website in to 4 When he gives them all, I dont think there will be a problem if I use his website it self
I see. If he's already making all the parts of the web site available to affiliates, maybe he won't have a problem with it at all, then. Good luck. (He may wonder exactly why you're doing this rather than just using a hoplink, if you want to test the same sales page that he's already using anyway ... but this is a different question!).