I agree with some of the commentors above that in order for clickbank to really provide some value for affiliates and vendors, there needs to be a bit more flexibility within the hop structure.

I have to say I am a little disappointed in the configuration of this blog. There is no place for a commenter to place their website URL, which pretty much goes against every part of Web2 philosophy and business modeling.

In addition, it prevents newer Clickbank users from establishing credible authority backlinks from Clickbank. When they make a sale, CB gets paid too, right?

It is not long ago that my SEO put me ahead of Clickbank on Google for the term Clickbank, and when I was asked for an outbound link to Clickbank by Clickbank, I obliged happily, long before there was a Web2 at all, but in support of the concept.

Clickbank would do well to practice a little of what is being preached in here, and perhaps listen to a few people that have been making a living in affiliate marketing for years, and certainly since the beginning of CB.

Clickbank is correct in indicating that vendors would do well to attract affiliates with all sorts of baubbles and tools. Perhaps it would do well for CB to produce an affiliate tool wizard or affiliate support template page on the CB system.

I would recommend also the ability to support multiple landing pages, and the glaring obvious need for an affiliate’s ability to “opt-in” to be contacted by vendors of his choice.

These are very basic, simple to code. Some error trapping for when the CB boxes are busy would be good too, rather than the cold message given to shoppers now when the CB system hangs. Simple stuff.

Keep up the great work! CB helped me retire very well, and though I prefer to remain outside the limelight, it is nice to see so many people I have trained on CB doing well with it over the past 6 or 7 years.

Ron

Kathleen Gage