As an affiliate, can you bypass the seller's site all together and go directly to the order page and still get credited?
yes you can do that however you will not get the benefit of Cookies. h t t p //ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net Read more here https://support.clickbank.com/entries/22829862-Creating-a-Payment-Link
So that is the order form link. Does this include my referral ID? https://ssl.clickbank.net/order/ord...B468B2CC7D1275FB5107924C9AED327416C2682B492B8
Its not a simple redirection from item.vendor.pay.clickbank.net to the long URL you pasted. The affiliate tracking is done in between that. So 2 conditions here 1. If you link to the long URL (The order form url you pasted), it won't have your affiliate name in it. 2. If you link to the item.vendor.pay.clickbank.net format, It will have your affiliate name in it. In either case, the 30 days cookie is not set on the user;s computer. So if he buys the product day after , it wont credit you for the sale. Better of , if you are going to promote the product heavily - talk to the vendor and ask him to setup a payment link for you which will have both things (your Affilite name and 30 days cookie) or setup a separate sales page for you , Vendors often do that as long as you give them few sales and approach in right manner telling you wanna scale up your campaign but stuck due to these things.
Thanks; I just hate the vendors site; but I love the product. I'll work with the vendor and get him to set up a page for me.