Knocking off the Clickbank ?hop= 'appendix'

Hey all,

I've been doing the following for almost 2 years now but I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on this;

// knock off that nasty hop= appendix :)
if ($_GET["hop"]!="") {
	$_COOKIE["hop"]=$_GET["hop"];
	setcookie("ref",$_GET["hop"],(time()+15552000));
	header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
	header("Location: /");
	exit;
}

Code (markup):

What this php code does is make it so that

http://www.keywordexcavator.com/?hop=johndoe
instantly becomes
http://www.keywordexcavator.com/


I know this might confuse beginner-affiliates that may not know you can see affiliate=johndoe at the bottom of the order page but I was curious what you all think of this practice?

It's purely for aesthetic purposes. I know any semi-serious marketer uses redirect links e.g. www.mysite.com/recommends/some-ebook but what's really the point if you still end up with a (to me) ugly looking www.some-ebook.com/?hop=mr-x

Your thoughts please.

Feel free to use the above code btw.

 

I'm using a similar code for my product. It should definitely help conversion - people don't feel like someone is "taking advantage of them" in the form of an affiliate commission.

nadavs

 

Is the code to be used by publisher or affiliates to make it work?

 

where do you imput the code?

 

Ah... Interesting. I'm going to try this with my product and see how it goes.

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Didn't work for me - got a bunch of errors. Must be doing somethin' wrong.

 

Do you mind sharing your code ?

 

Using code such as this to remove the affiliate ID from the browser address bar is a good idea.

For one thing, it doesn't tell the visitor that someone stands to make a commission if he buys something. People are sort of funny about things like that. They somehow feel they're paying more than they should so that someone else can make money.

Also, many people will see the 'hop=affID' and they'll back up and go thru their own affID to buy the product. In essence, they're getting a discount, Clickbank still gets their fee, the vendor gets his money - everybody's happy except the original affiliate that actually initiated the sale - he gets nothing!

If you're a Clickbank vendor and you care about your affiliates, you'll remove the hoplink info on your site. It's just good business practice to help those affiliates that are trying to put money in your pocket.

Another improvement that Clickbank vendors should consider is their product title and description. I'm talking about the info that shows up in the Clickbank listings. As you may know, lots of websites promote Clickbank products using datafeeds and those datafeeds provide the product title and description entered by the product vendor.

If you're smart, as a vendor you'll want to write titles and descriptions that will appeal to the purchaser - that will help to sell your product. I see many vendors that have a title and description like this -

Our product converts at 20% with almost no refunds!

This is the hottest selling download on Clickbank and we
pay you a 75% commission on every sale! Make big money
by promoting our product.​

Do you think you'd get many sales from your website with an add like that? Some people might check it out and become an affiliate, but that doesn't make you any money.

I wrote a script that automatically displays keyword related Clickbank products on my websites, but the script is smart enough to ignore garbage ads aimed at affiliates rather than at prospects.

 

nice! I'm going to try this out as well.

 

I do the same type of thing for my product pages as well.

 

Yeah that'd be great as the I couldn't get the code the OP shared to work.

Anyone have any hints? I definitely like the idea - although I'm not really convinced that people in my niche (diet) even look at the url window. I think sometimes us IM people who are very computer literate over-estimate the computer literacy of our customers.

 

looking very interesting,still confusing

 

My code is very simple. The hoplink redirects to index.php, which in turn redirects to index.html without the affiliate ID. I checked it, and it doesn't remove the cookie, so it's OK.

The code is simply:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
	header("Location: index.html");
	exit;

Code (markup):

nadavs

 

Ah... Cool navdavs, although that won't work for me because I have php code on my page that I want to use. Could I do it the other way around? Redirect from .html to .php? I guess I can experiment with it... Tonight - when not much traffic is coming in.

 

what errors do u get? maybe we can have a look at it.

 

I don't remember the exact error as I had to remove the code quickly so that I wasn't losing traffic but it was something like "header already called" X 3 and that it was it, didn't load up the page at all.

I'm not sure I am putting it in the right place? Plus there seems like there's something missing from the OP's code... I'm really not an expert when it comes to scripts like this - I need something that works exactly right or it ain't going to work for me.

 

This code is for publishers.

On top of your sales/landing page (the page clickbank is pointing to - whic you've configured in your clickbank account) - remember, publishers only.
Your landing page must be a .php although you can probably get someone to rewrite this for ASP as well for a few bucks. Don't forget to put <? and ?> around it

I'm guessing you didn't put the code on top and this will result in a 'headers already sent out' error.
Be sure to put the code ON TOP of the .php file, it must be the first thing in the file and you have to put <? in front of the code and ?> at the end of it.

 

This is fairly interesting but right now i'm using a php redirect to hide the link.

 

You called it. I tried it again and now it works. Thanks a lot. + rep added. I'm not sure it will help in my niche (diet) but it's worth a try.

 

I don't have any ebooks yet, but that will be good to know when I do.