UNDERSTANDING CLICKBANK HOPLINKS
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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:
<a target=_top
href=http://hop.clickbank.net/?AFFILIATE/VENDOR>Click
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:
<a target=_blank
href=http://hop.clickbank.net/?AFFILIATE/VENDOR>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:
<script>self.focus()</script>
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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