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More On Clickbank| Article #325 : THE COMPLETE CLICKBANK GUIDE – PART 11

In this installment, we’re going to go over some features that are available to vendors that are not available to regular affiliates. Of course any affiliate can become a vendor simply by putting in a product approval request and getting it Okayed by Clickbank.

Okay, let’s log into our vendor account now and then go to where it says Account Settings. Click on that and then when you get to the next page, click on the link that says Modify Your Account. If you then scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see something that says Your Product Delivery Pages.

Right now, you probably have only 1 of these boxes filled in with the thank you page of your one product. Remember, the product approval request where you had to create a sales page and thank you page? Well, this is where you put in the URL of that thank you page. This is how Clickbank knows where to send a customer to after they have paid for their product. If this isn’t filled in you won’t even get a payment page to come up. So you must have at least one of these filled in.

You will also notice that there are boxes for additional products. So, the question is, how does Clickbank know where to send your customers if you have more than one product? This is probably a good time to start our discussion of Clickbank hoplinks, which I have avoided up to now.

The Clickbank hoplink is how a customer is taken to the correct vendor sales page and then ultimately the correct thank you page. The process can be a little confusing to somebody who has never used hoplinks before, so I will try to explain this as simply as possible. The best way to do that is with an example.

Let’s say that your Clickbank vendor nickname is myprod. In that case the product that you create will have the following format for accessing the payment page:

http://1.myprod.hop.clickbank.net
The 1 is for the product number of your vendor account. Since you only have 1 product so far, that’s the only number you can use. It coincides with the thank you page box that’s filled in under your product delivery pages.

The myprod is the name of your vendor account, which identifies you and your product.

The rest is standard for every Clickbank hoplink.

Now, you want affiliates to be able to sell your product. But the problem is, in order to do that, they will need a hoplink that will go with THEIR affiliate nickname and YOUR product name.

So let’s say we have an affiliate who’s name is joedee. If joedee wants to sell your product, he would use another form of the hoplink that looks like this:

http://joedee.myprod.hop.clickbank.net

In this case, he would replace the 1 in the hoplink with his Clickbank nickname. Then if he sends somebody to your page using this hoplink, he will get credit for the sale if the customer buys.

The way Clickbank knows which product to send the customer to during the purchase step is because the link that’s on YOUR sales page is the first one I showed you.

It’s actually a very nicely integrated system that works very well, most of the time.

In our next installment we’ll pick up with some more tips on using the Clickbank marketplace.

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