Clickbank Redirect Rules

One way to protect your ClickBank affiliate marketing links from fraudulent “link jacking” by hackers is to set up a redirect from the Web page that contains the link. ClickBank not only allows redirects, it recommends using this technique and provides information about how to implement the redirects on your website.

1. About ClickBank Affiliate Links

   • Each affiliate product marketed through ClickBank includes an affiliate URL link, called a “hoplink,” that you can add to your Web page. The link includes your unique ClickBank affiliate ID so that you get credited with the commission when a visitor to your website clicks the link and buys the product. You can add the link to your Web page in the same way that you’d add any clickable link or cloak the link by using a redirect.

   About Affiliate Link Jacking

   • Hackers can manipulate affiliate links on a website to transfer clicks to their own ClickBank accounts. In this situation, visitors to your website who click your affiliate link get transferred to the hacker’s ClickBank account. If the visitor buys the product, the hacker receives the commission even though the sale was your own. Using a redirect to hide your affiliate link can prevent hackers from stealing your commission.
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   ClickBank Redirect Policy

   • ClickBank encourages its affiliate marketers to use redirects. You can implement the redirect by creating a dedicated website page that contains JavaScript or PHP code to redirect the visitor to the affiliate link. Instead of using the ClickBank hoplink code on the product or sales page, link to the redirect Web page instead. When the visitor clicks the link, the redirect page loads and transfers the visitor to the ClickBank product.

   Considerations

   • Although using a redirect can protect your affiliate link from fraud, the technique might affect your site’s search engine rankings. Google and other search engines generally disapprove of websites that use cloaked links, because some unscrupulous webmasters use redirects to trick visitors into opening pages that they may not want to visit. If you use redirects for ClickBank, clearly and accurately describe the link so that visitors and search engines know that you’re not attempting to hide the content and trick your visitors. Don't use redirects if you're concerned about the possible impact on your website's search engine ranking.

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How to Find a Vendor ID on Clickbank

Clickbank is a payment processor used by thousands of digital product vendors to manage fee processing and the subsequent delivery of digital goods. Clickbank makes it easy for vendors and affiliate marketers to connect, as more than 100,000 affiliates have accounts integrated with the Clickbank digital products marketplace. When vendors create a Clickbank account, they chose an ID, which is later combined with the affiliate's ID, to build a unique URL or "hoplink" for sales tracking purposes.

Instructions
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Log in to your Clickbank account. Click "Marketplace" on the horizontal navigation menu. In the page that opens, a list of categories is displayed on the left-hand side of the page. At the top of this page, you'll see a search box entitled "Find Products."
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Browse the marketplace by category or enter a keyword in the search box. A list of relevant products pertaining to your category or keyword will load. When you find a product that you are interested in promoting, click the "Promote" button next to the product description. A small window will pop up, with a field to enter your affiliate ID and an optional personal-tracking ID.


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Note the URL in the address bar of the small window. The last string of words will look something akin to "vendor=2COOK." "2COOK" is the vendor ID.



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Tips & Warnings

A Clickbank hoplink to be promoted on your affiliate website or in email newsletters is correctly formulated as "http://AFFILIATE-ID.VENDOR-ID.hop.clickbank.net" (without quotes). However, to help prevent would-be customers from stealing your commissions by replacing your ID with their own ID, enter your affiliate ID in the small window that appears when you click the "promote" button. This will generate an encrypted URL that disguises both the affiliate and vendor IDs.

After adding your Clickbank hoplink to your website, test it to make sure you it is working right, and that customer sales you refer will be credited to your account. Click on your referral hoplink, and scroll down the vendor's sales page until you see an image or text link to purchase the product. Once clicked, this will load a Clickbank order form. If all is working as it should, at the bottom of the form, you will see "[affiliate=YourAfilliateID]" (without quotes).

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