ClickBank Affiliates: Redesigning a ClickBank offer page
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If you are a ClickBank affiliate, one thing that you may wish to do is “redesign” a vendor’s offer page, so as to present the product pitch in a different way. There are several reasons why you might want to do this, including:
- You might believe that you can create a more effective or more attractive offer page.
- You might want to tailor the pitch so as to appeal to your audience.
- Some vendors that offer multiple products for sale will set affiliate traffic to link to the home page of their site - but an affiliate (you) who wants to promote only a particular product, might prefer to skip these intermediate steps, and send the buyer directly to the payment link. Note: Vendors with multiple products would be well-advised to get a copy of CBMultiLink, as they can use that to allow their affiliates to link directly to both their home page, and product-specific pages).
The first question is: Is it allowed, within ClickBank’s rules, for an affiliate to redesign a sales offer page?
My understanding at the time of writing (check with ClickBank’s terms of service or ask them if unsure) is that it permitted, but only if the affiliate gets the explicit permission of the vendor in question.
The second question is: How to do it?
Anyway, what you need to do is do View Source on the vendor’s sales page. Look for the ClickBank payment link, which should look something like this:
http://productid.vendor.pay.clickbank.net
Where
- productid identifies the product, and is usually (but not always) a number.
- vendor is the vendor’s ClickBank nickname.
Now design your own offer page, and for the payment link, insert a link to.
http://productid.affiliate_vendor.pay.clickbank.net
Where
- productid is copied directly from the original payment link
- vendor is also copied directly from the original payment link
- affiliate is your ClickBank nickname
This will work, but it does have some limitations:
- This method works for most vendors, but may not work for those vendors with server-side complex scripted sites
- Users purchasing through this type of payment link are not “cookied”. As a result, you will only receive credit for the sale if the visitor has not previously clicked on somebody else’s affiliate link.
The third question is: Is there a better way to do this?
Yes.
If the vendor gets a copy of CBMultiLink, they can set up as many different landing pages (including product-specific pages) as they want, all of which affiliates can directly link to. Moreover, the vendor could even offer branded pages for their top affiliates, or allow his affiliates to host their own pitch pages.
Using CBMultiLink in this way, will also solve the two issues with the affiliate_vendor type payment links:
- This method can be made to work for all vendors, even those with complex scripted sites.
- Users will always be “cookied”. That means you will receive affiliate credit for the sale, regardless of whether the visitor has previously clicked on somebody else’s affiliate link.
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