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:
href=http://hop.clickbank.net/?envirosave>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:
href=http://hop.clickbank.net/?envirosave>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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