I also realize not everyone can persuade or write good articles worthy of persuasion; so I plan on providing advertising material, sales copy literature etc. including a personalized private login for affiliates to discuss tactics.

It seems to me that I have to really believe in the vendors product for me to spend time & resources promoting it - the high % commission is secondary in consideration for me, but at the same time I also understand that the more I can offer my affiliates - the more popular my product will be and the more everyone will benefit!

I am a new affiliate, and have found that there are several questions that have not yet been asked. Although, the ones posted here are great, but some security concerns have come to play.

As I set things up for my webmall of products, I noted in looking over the links, that the link itself is exposed for corruption. This can and probably has caused a great loss to many affiliates.

Is Clickbank working on getting these issues worked out? The sites themselves cannot be modified by the affiliate, so security for the affiliate is imediatley compromised.

I think there are also some issues in meta-tag and description tags editing. As most of you know, just placing these pages on the internet is not enough. Posting the links is not enough, as the search engines have no way to reference the page itself, therefore, it has not way to index it.

One could create and host his/her own website, and link across. So, lets look at that. A customer does not want to spend allot of time clicking his/her way to the product. They want the ability to navigate quickly, and without going through a maze of clicks. This in itself has probably sent quite a few customers back to Wal-Mart.

Just some thoughts
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Tom Nickols
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You ideally need to be focussing your attentions to creating products to promote at Clickbank which act primarily as lead generators for the backend potential of your online business. In other words, what else can you offer your customers later on to solve further problems for them? Have a good long look at what your company strategy really is. What are you supplying and to whom? What do they want? What solutions do they seek?

Provide those solutions and your business will go from strength to strength. Yes, I believe in high commission percentage as a real incentive to top affiliates. Reward and you shall be be rewarded is my marketing motto!

The traffic that my affiliates send to my site don’t even know what the word affiliate means, maybe one in 5000 might sign as an affiliate and then probably won’t get any sales.

So I’m saying in response to your feedback that it does depend on the niche you are selling to.

Thanks and good luck.

Other affiliate networks allow you to do this, the problem is non of them have the affiliate base that CB has, not even close.

Put your order button at the top of your page. My tracking tells me that in most cases I have to send 100 people to a site to make 1 or 2 sales.

The button at the top and through out the sales copy can’t hurt can it? It may increase your conversion rate.

The reason I ask is because most affiliates want to see a $20.00+ commission when they sell a product. If a publisher has a product under $30.00 and the affiliate commission is 75%, they would be offering a commission of under $20.00.

By capping the affiliate commissions at 75% would push publishers with cheaper products to increase their sale price to meet the $20.00 commission rate, thus jeopardizing their sales and increasing the return rate.

Lastly, some publishers are looking at back-end sales and would not mind giving a 100% commission with their initial product sale.