Is Clickbank Hoplink Necessary? Hoplink vs. Domain Masking

First of all, I'm a newbie and glad to be amongst one of your members...

There are two links that i don't the difference between them yet:

A. http://xxxxx-xxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/
B. http://www.---------.com/?hop=username
C. The link that takes user to payment page:
https://ssl.clickbank.net/order/orderform.html?time=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&xxxxxx

I bought a domain, i masked my hoplink, so my domain gets displayed on the browser.

maskdomain.com -> http://xxxxx-xxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/

I market using maskdomain.com.

Questions:

1. Is it ok to do that? Won't i lose commissions?

2. I would like to customize my affiliate webpage so it meets
my own design. Can i design/host my own page and just
put the buy button at my own page? I don't i will lose
commissions because anyhow, user will be redirected to
the clickbank page that has my affiliate name at the bottom. Any idea?

I'm looking forward to hearing your advice.

Regards,
peace2006

 

In theory you won't. As long as your affiliate-ID is displaying at the bottom of the payment/order pages. I use maskeddomain.info, forwarded with masking, in the place of all my hoplinks.

As far as Clickbank are concerned, you can substitute your own page for the vendor's sales-page with a "buy now" button which links directly to the order/payment page, but you have to have the vendor's permission in each case to do so.

 

You can test your links by checking if cookies are set in your browser.

 

Don't worry. You are doing right thing. That is otherwise known as cloaking.

 

Ok! Thanks....

What other affiliates that are known to be as near as good as clickbank?

 

if it's masking using frame, then it's violating Clickbank TOS. Be sure to check it out cause at any time they can refuse to pay you if you mask using frame!