With www.publisherssalespage.com in the first 5 emails. (the publisher is registered on clickbank) Does this mean my affiliate cookie will be deleted once the user opts in for the publisher's webpage? 0 money for me, even if 10000 hops? How to avoid this? ask the publisher to remove the opt-in? tell clickbank? Dunno if i should post his url here. Please help, this is the first time i'm doing it! My site name looks similar to his. I did a forwarding to the hoplink with the correct meta tags and such and also masked my site so in the address bar still shows my site, even if you click on links on his site! Want to use some bum marketing methods, such as posts on forums for signature viewing and ezine articles. Thanks!
Opt-In emails don't hurt the affiliate unless you have a shady publisher who is over riding your affiliate link with a new email. Reason is...60 day cookie. You send traffic to his site through your hoplink, he collects emails, sends emails our using just his site URL, and you get credit for the sales (granted they buy within 30 days and don't visit another clickbank site through an affiliate hoplink). Opt-in emails can actually really help the affiliate. I prefer opt-ins that redirect back to the sales page after the visitor has filled out the form. Most "buyers" will automatically fill out the form before they buy. Some "lookers" will fill out the form and then when when redirected back to the sales page, will buy. This is because they've already made a small commitment (the opt-in) so it's easier to for them to make the larger commitment (the purchase). Those "lookers" who don't (or would never) buy on their first visit, now have given you the opportunity to sell them 7-10 times with follow-up emails. Like I said before, when done correctly (and legitimately), opt-ins can be of much value to the affiliate. Get to know your publisher, email them and ask questions about their process, sign up on the opt-in and see how the affiliate cookie is handled. This is business, do you do-diligence. Scotty
As a publisher I don`t like opt-ins.. for the affiliate it can be very useful, to bad that most of them will not use the optins legitimately.
To some extent opt-in pages increase sales, Let me give you a example. If you send 100 visitors to non opt-in sales page it will generate sales according to conversion rate of the product.but once visitor leave that website we are not able to tract them. Now if you send 100 visitors to opt-in page 30 to 60 % visitors get subscribe to the page, Publisher will keep continues feedback by emails till they pull money from subscribers pocket. and this really increase a chances to get good conversion also publisher try to sell back end items which will eventually generate more commission for you.
Opt-in pages even double sales.. the big difference is that people are still aware of the product you promote via Email.
well, there's a popup with a credit-card-like membership shiz and a free report which is 27$ if you buy it normally.. you put your name and mail there, wait for the first mail... at the bottom of the 'big wall of text' there's "publisher's domain dot com". will that overwrite my cookie? i want my cookie!
But some publishers will use their mailing list to promote other products-- for which the PUBLISHER gets credit for the affiliate sale. I don't agree with this practice, but I've seen it done many times. If a publisher uses the opt-in to exclusively promote the product for which the page was intended, then I think it's a good thing. My recommendation for affiliates -- sign up for the list yourself and see what the list promotes before you start selling a product.
I don't try to sell products that have an optin generally speaking it really has to be an exceptional product for me to take a chance. Do you link to products that have a link to the affiliate program on the front page? Thats another red flag.