Of late clickbank has been taking the flak for it's supposed faulty tracking system and stuff, but what if they aren't at fault but something else plays a factor?. There's been a spate of complaints about firefox, chrome and some cases of IE not loading pages, or just crashing altogether, this might happen when someone clicks on your ad/article link and tries to go to your landing page but instead sees a "server not connected" error even though your site is running fine. Or they might even be trying to click on your hoplink and end up with the same error. In these cases, affiliates might notice even more traffic than usual or even more hops than they normally get with drastically reduced conversions as people try to access the sites repeatedly. This is just a thought I had and thought I'd see if others had similar ideas instead of just plain blaming CB's tracking system.
I totally agree. In fact, last week I checked one of my hoplinks on IE and it showed a "page not found" error. After reloading about 2 times, the link worked? Weird.
What about the increased use of proxies (they remove cookies) so do anti viruses, anti-spyware software. Maybe clickbank should update their cookie software or whatever and see if that makes a difference. Some less lazy dude should email clickbank with such suggestions.
Might be true. Though I've tested my sites from several IP's/different locations and even countries.. everything is in order..
I thought the CB tracking issues was a bit of a conspiracy.. then last week when testing some hoplinks... for a bout 10 mins on both IE & FF no cookies were dropping... publisher was getting 100%.. reset privacy options to lowest and still no cookie dropp.. NOW I know CB does have some issues with tracking.. not that publishers would complain but as affiliates its a concern!
Maybe we should do a comparative study of marketing methods to narrow it down, check the hop:conversion rate for those with lists and compare them to the deviation in article marketing, ppc etc.