The article "Clickbank Vendors: Two Simple Ways You Can Help Affiliates
Protect Their Sales." is about ebooks, it has been written by John Hocking.
1) How To Remove Your Affiliates Clickbank Id From The URL.
As a merchant, you can hide the clickbank affiliate id for your
affiliates by creating a redirect page and pointnig your default
hoplink to the redirect.
When some uses your hoplink
http://hop.Clickbank.Net/?Affid/yourid, the cookie will be set
and they will land on your rdeirect page.
The redirect will send them to your domain without adding the
? Hop= ifnormation. The cookie is arleady set and does not need
to be shown.
This will help protect your affiliates commission and give your
site a more professional appearance.
In the code examples below, you will need to replace [ and ]
with less then and greater then symbols.
Create a file called hoplink.Php
Add the following code
[?Php header("Location: http://www.Yourdomain.Com"); exit; ?]
Upload hoplink.Php to the root of your domain.
Login into your clickbank account. Click to view or modify your
account settings. Click to modify your account.
Under Business Info, change the url of your website to be
http://www.Yourdomain.Com/hoplink.Php
Click on save changes.
Now when a visitor clciks on a hoplink, it appears that they
came directly to your web site and the affiliate's id is no longer
exposed. For that technique to be completely effective, the
affiliate needs to cloak the hoplink as well.
2) How to Cloak Your Clickbank Vendor Id Using PHP
Most clickbank affiliate theft is caused by the fact that is
easy to rebuild a hoplink and get credit for your own purchase.
All you really need to know is the vendor id.
All you have to do is look at the soruce code of a typical sales
link and you will see the vendor id.
For example:
http://www.Clickbank.Net/sell.Cgi?YourVendorId/1/Product_Descript
ion
To rebuild the hoplink you simply use
http://hop.Clickbank.Net/?AffiliatesId/YourVendorId
Now when you click on the hoplink and the original affiliate has
lost a sale.
As you can see, without knowing the vendor id, you can not
successfully rebuild the hoplink and the affiliates sale would
be protected.
Below is an example of how to do that in PHP.
You will need to replace [ and ] with less then and greater then
symbols.
Create a file called order.Php
Add the following code
[? Php
header("Location:
http://www.Clickbank.Net/sell.Cgi? YourVendorId/1/Product_Descript
ion");
exit; ? ]
Just replace YourVendorID with your Clickbank ID Replace 1 with
your product number Replace Product_Description with your
Product Description
Upload order.Php into the same folder as your sales page.
Now link to order.Php instead of using the raw order link and
your Vendor ID is never exposed
This will make it very hard for affiliates to rob other
affiliates of their commissions.
I encuorage you to make these simple changes to protect the
commissions of your affiliates.
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