Clickbank says that they set a 30 day cookie when people use the Hop link. If a person clicks on affiliates "A" hop and later on affiliates "B" hop and decides to make the purchase.... who gets the money???
affiliate B. the cookies only work when the customer goes back on the site by his own. Credit is given to the last affiliate who reffered the customer.
I do have a specific question about cookies, frames and Clickbank tracking Since IE6 there are some cookies issues indeed. If siteB.com is a frame inside siteA.com (and you are visiting siteA.com), IE (>6) does not allow siteB.com to put a cookie on your computer So you make no sales when you use this promotion method because there is no cookie so no tracking Is this issue relevant for Clickbank promotion? Many guys here or elsewhere use short URL services to hide their affiliate links and to promote products but do you use frames or iframes to promote Clickbank products?
yes its relevant, thats the reason Affiliate Hijacker doesnt use frames/iframes. It depends on many factors, browsers used, and security settings in the browser and whether the "3rd party cookies" have a compact privacy policy. There is actually nothing wrong with tinyurl, shorturl...since at the end the hoplink will open in a new window and it will be 100% clickbank TOS compliant. If you want your own landing pages and use cookies - this is whole different story. But: Frames/Iframes: Bad, for so many reasons, including google. Expect a certain percentage of commisisions being lost if people use IE6+ with tight security settings. Also..a site which is on YOUR url but opens the target site in a frame does basically have NO content (not under your URL)...so google sees an empty page. Bad for PPC.
60 days if the user does not clean his cookies Thank you for your input GeorgR. My concern was the tracking issue when using frames (and not Google or PPC) indeed So, basically, let's avoid frames/iframes Too bad for branding or hiding URL (with 2 frames) but we must not take risks to lose commissions
you actually get 60 days, have tryed to build a list in your niche its a great way to make sure the customer buys off of you.
so I'm assuming on sites which get an OPT-IN and then try to get a backend sale, you could benefit from that 45 days later, assuming they didn't clean the cookies or go through another link. Sometimes I have a hard time believing it...even though I know its true!
Hey thanks for the info. I was wondering how long Click bank credited my account for people I referred to any given product. Often times when I buy online it takes me a few days to contemplate what I have read.