sounds very frightening! I hope Clickbank can use a better tracking system. So sorry for you. Hope everything works out.
I really don't think this is Clickbank. And I'm the only person this is happening to out of all of this vendor's affiliates. Not to mention, he contacted me to let me know about the problem, where he could just be enjoying not paying commissions, and has been paypalling me what I should be making. So I really don't think he's doing anything shady. I mentioned earlier a few things that might be causing the problems: 1. My links. I'm not including target=_top, as suggested by CB. This has never been a problem before. 2. Other ads on my page. I'd been displaying ads for a small company that does PPC for law enforcement and related topics. They've always paid on time, but I question the abilities of their programmers as a result of some of the things I've seen. They're displaying the ads with javascript. 3. My price comparison site. I display the images of other site's products on my site, from their site. I mean, the img.src is from their site. A lot of these sites set cookies on even image requests, so a view of my page results in a large amount of cookie setting from 3rd party sites, even though this isn't my intention. If I thought this were a concern I could download the images to my server and display the images from my site. I'd rather not, but would if this were causing problems. #3 might make my site look suspicious to a browser, so that when a visitor to my site leaves my site, goes first of all through a CB redirect, winds up at the vendor's site, and then goes back to CB again, somehow or another a cookie isn't set as a result of the browser session's bombardment of cookies... like it curls up in the fetal position and screams, "I can't handle any more cookies!". Just a theory, but something's definitely going on. I haven't written to CB because I'd need to refer to information I probably shouldn't be privy to about the vendor. Thanks for the responses!
This just started happening to me. I was making an average of about $100 a day (3-5 sales), and all of a sudden, it just stopped. The weird thing was, the problem seemed to come after the cutoff of one CB week and the start of the next. I've gotten the same number of clicks, but zero sales. I did run a test by signing up for a new account, and I got sales as normal on that one (better than normal, in fact, as one E-mail blast got me about $400). Then I tried the old one again, and I once again went back down to 0 sales. I am getting around 500 clicks a send, and no sales? Doubtful.
So far no response yet. Though the more research I do, the more I think this is a problem on Clickbank's end. There's no reason in the world this would only be happening with me, and none of the other affiliates of this vendor.
Hi Gboethin Did using a new account solve your problem? I was experiencing a drop in sales, too but I accounted it to seasonal changes in demand (like shown by google trends). After heaving read your post I wonder whether I might have a similar problem... Mike
Any resolution to this issue? Just found this thread via Google, and would love to be updated. I don't trust CB as far as a I can throw them.