Hi, I am confused again. I have a question: 1. If I promote my hoplink, then I refer people to the site of the vendor. But the person I referred and the person sign up for the newsletter and buy the product another day. So, if this case happen, can I earn commission from it?
Hello, If the Vendor has set his Mailing List up to record your Affiliate ID in the Mail Out for that specific customer email then yes but the only way you can test it is if you go to the landing page using your hoplink, signup to the Newsletter and check to see if the link in the newsletter uses your hoplink. Nick
If the vendor is honest then you are surely going to get the credit but some selfish vendors capture the leads and then follow up without your hoplink.You have to check individual merchant to be sure.
It's called cookies my friend. Websites drop these little files and that is one way they can track it if they purchase from another day.
The cookie is set and then if they buy later through the email you get the sale. But if they put their own affiliate hop link than you lose the sale. Like someone else said, just sign up and see if your affiliate id is on the order page.
Most people don't buy at their first visit to the sales page. The reality is that when they return, you'll get paid ONLY IF ALL of the following are true:- 1. The customer hasn't "deleted cookies" (nothing you can do about that one) 2. The customer doesn't use anti-spyware/malware software that destroys Clickbank cookies (nothing you can do about that one) 3. It's within 60 days (that's the duration of a Clickbank cookie) 4. The vendor hasn't sent your customer any email with a link to the sales page with his or his wife's or his cousin's affiliate-link in it (you can easily prevent this, as many professional affiliates do, simply by choosing not to promote products with an opt-in on the sales page and selecting another product instead) 5. The customer hasn't seen anyone else's review/site/blog and followed a link subsequent to your own (because the "most recent cookie" gets the sale - not much you can do about that, and of course it's quite common because people looking at "review sites" will often look at more than one) 6. Clickbank happen not to have any of their "affiliate tracking problems" on the day when the customer returns (nothing you can do about that one, either) These are all part of affliates' frustrations and difficulties, really, and there's only one of them you can do anything about. Becoming an affiliate for something with the vendor's contact/opt-in on the sales page is just asking for trouble. Fortunately, there are plenty of products without this nightmare scenario, though. One just avoids the problems one can, and hopes for the best regarding the others. Still plenty of money to be made, although it would be really nice if they could improve the affiliate tracking problems. Honest vendors paying 75% commission usually reckon that realistically it will cost them only 50% or 55%, overall, because of the proportion of sales on which the affiliate isn't credited. It's the "vendors' little secret". Dishonest ones, of course, can save even more than that.