‘Understanding Clickbank Hoplinks’ – ‘ClickBank Affiliate Guru Series’ Lesson
Rick & Ron Davies’ ‘ClickBank Affiliate Guru Series’ lesson titled “Understanding Clickbank Hoplinks” is reprinted here. [ClickBank Affiliate Lesson]
Rick & Ron Davies’ ClickBank Affiliate Guru Series’ lesson is reprinted here.
Understanding Clickbank Hoplinks
here’s some very valuable information for all users of ClickBank. Whether you’re a vendor or an affiliate, you need to know all that you can about hoplinks. The information below is direct from ClickBank with their permission.
This is a great read, and I would suggest that everyone have a serious read of these questions and answers:
Q. With hoplinks does the first or last affiliate get the commission?
A. When a purchase is made at a vendor, the commission is awarded to the last affiliate who referred the customer to that particular vendor.
Q. For how long do you track each referral?
A. After you make a referral to a vendor, you will earn a commission if the customer makes a purchase at that vendor up to 60 days later.
Q. What percentage of ClickBank sales are made by referral?
A. Among our top selling products, over 75% of sales are generated by affiliates. Overall affiliates generate over 50% of all ClickBank sales.
Q. Can vendors cheat affiliates by “undoing” the commission on a sale, or by pretending that a sale was refunded?
A. No. Unlike other popular affiliate solutions, ClickBank handles both the sale and the awarding of commissions. The only way for a vendor to undo a commission is to actually undo (refund) the entire order.
Q. If I refer a customer to one vendor, and they proceed to make several purchases from that vendor, will I get a commission on each sale?
A. Yes.
Q. If I refer a customer to one vendor, but the customer ends up buying from a different vendor, will I get a commission on the sale?
A. No.
Q. Suppose a customer is surfing the web at their office. I refer the customer to a vendor, they make a purchase, and I get a commission. Later the same customer is surfing the web at home (on a different machine) and goes to the same vendor to make another purchase. Will I get a commission on that sale?
A. Yes! This feature will be added soon.
Q. Will I get referral credit if I make hoplinks open into pop-up or pop-under windows?
A. Yes. Pop-up, pop-under, and “exit” windows are not a problem.
Q. Will I get referral credit if I hide hoplinks by making them open into a frame, iframe, layer, applet, image, or other sub-window object?
A. No. These are illegal hoplinks. For security reasons, and to ensure proper tracking of your referrals, all hoplinks must be targeted to the top level of a new or existing window.
Q. What happens if I do make illegal hoplinks?
A. The short answer is that if you make illegal hoplinks you will lose money. Hoplinks targeted to frames or iframes are automatically re targeted to fill the top level of same window, with full referral credit awarded. Note that this re targeting may have the unintended effect of displacing your entire web site.
Hoplinks targeted to images or other invisible html objects give you no referral credit at all. In some cases they will also prevent you from receiving referral credit for legal hoplinks on the same page.
Q. Will I get referral credit if I hide hoplinks by using a “link cloaker”, so that the customer clicks on a url that then redirects the customer through a ClickBank hoplink?
A. Yes. Cloaked hoplinks are legal. Redirecting to hoplinks is not a problem as long as the link is targeted to the top level of a new or existing window.
Q. How can I target a hoplink to the top level of the current window?
A. If your site doesn’t use frames, then all links are automatically targeted to the top level. If you do use frames, then to be safe be sure to set the target attribute of each hoplink link to “_top”.
Here’s an example:
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Here!
Q. How would I target a hoplink to a new window instead?
A. To open a hoplink in a new window set the target attribute of the hoplink to “_blank”. Here’s an example:
Click
Here!
Q. I’m a vendor who doesn’t want affiliates putting my site in pop-under windows. Can I prevent this?
A. Yes. You can almost always force your site to the top by putting a simple script on the page. Here’s an example:
self.focus()
Q. I’m a vendor who doesn’t want affiliates putting my site in a frame. Can I prevent this?
A. Yes. In almost all cases we prevent this for you, automatically.
Q. Besides cookies, what other methods does your system use to track customers?
A. Sorry. For security reasons we cannot disclose any internal details about our tracking system.
Q. Can Google and other search engines properly index my site if other sites link to my site via hoplinks?
A. Yes. Search engine robots have no trouble traversing hoplinks.
Q. Does your tracking system use the “HTTP_REFERER” variable to filter traffic?
A. No. We ignore it. We have used it in the past, but we have since determined that it is unreliable. We no longer use that parameter for anything.
Q. Am I guaranteed referral credit no matter what the customer does to avoid being tracked?
A. No. The affiliate (if any) we associate with any ClickBank sale is determined by an automated tracking system. Any decision made by this system is final, and not subject to petition or debate. Though we believe our tracking system to be more fair and accurate than any alternative, we make no representation regarding the ability of the system to track any specific customer, for any specific length of time.
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Rick & Ron Davies
Rick Davies and his brother Ron, own and operate several work-at-home websites and affiliate products including www.1stPromotion.com and www.ProfitMart.com Both of the brothers are full-time work-at-home dads For more information on this and other articles, please contact the author at Rick@1stPromotion.com or visit the sites above”.
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