Comments on: Protecting Your Hoplinks

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:15:12 +0000

I just tried using a URL shorter and it worked fine.

By: Clickbank Domain Masking

Clickbank Domain Masking — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:37:28 +0000

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By: MiL

MiL — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:20:33 +0000

Hi oskarincb,

I believe this is because of the system.
It will pass and receive the value through browser. If you used Frame redirect, it will pass the value inside server, means in another words it the other page WILL NOT receive the affiliates value..

So how to trace the commision..??

I have testing a few website using Frame redirect, and sad to say it doesnt work..

But I’m not sure if we put CGI script I will work or not..

This link is great for affiliate’s tools;
http://www.clickbank.com/affiliate_tools.html#Affiliate_Tools_2

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:26:20 +0000

I have been beating my brains out trying to get the cloaking to work. I have tried both CB recommendations, tinyurl, and a few others. No matter what I do, when I click on my URL ( http://mydomain.com/out/index.php for example, where index.php has the cloaking code), the product page comes up with http://www.xxxxxxcom/?hop=myclickbanklink.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Roger

By: oskarincb

oskarincb — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:42:53 +0000

In the FAQ section of the Clickbank site I read something about frames and redirections, it says “These are illegal hoplinks”, and therefore NO COMISSION will be payed, does anybody know if it is real?

By: andy

andy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:39:31 +0000

Why doesn’t clickbank automatically create masked hoplinks for publishers via the marketplace?

By: Steve1776

Steve1776 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:04:07 +0000

I use domain name forwarding with the domains I have registered at 1and1.com.
I use “frame redirect” which will not show you hoplink. Since domain names are cheap and if you buy them from 1and1 they will forward them for free I have some I’m not using yet.

By: Hopeful

Hopeful — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:26:11 +0000

I was promoting my affiliate links on traffic exchanges (which I have yet to make money) and after a while, my link would have someone else’s name on it.

I personally use http://www.hotshorturl.com

Take Care!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:40:42 +0000

I once tried using a program called affiliate cloner. I set up my links and after a few weeks I followed one of the the links and scrolled down to the bottom of the Clickbank order page. To my surprise the referring affiliate nick name was changed to “JAVA9″ So I closed the page and followed the link again, this time it showed my affiliate ID at the bottom of the CB order page. I did this over the next few days and found that it was alternating between my CD ID and one called “JAVA9″. I said to myself “that’s funny” since the affiliate cloner works by generating a javascript code from your affiliate hop link for you to save and an html file on your domain and then use IT as your referral link to customers. Then for customer to get to the publisher site they must have javascript enables browser (about 96% of browsers are javascript enabled) When my cloned link is followed it this manner there is a split second where i could actually see the script run. I wasn’t sure what is going on so i stopped using the script.

Clickbank does a fantastic job; I predict that they will be doing more to prevent commission theft.

Richard

By: Raylene

Raylene — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:13:47 +0000

I was given a website which promotes 3 products separately. I checked out the first product as far as the purchase and the affiliate had my name. But I noticed after much traffic with Yahoo that the other 2 products did not have my affiliate name. Therefore I do not know if I had sales or not and if I did have sales they didn’t come to my affiliate. Be careful, you do not get told.