Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Slimy Clickbank Merchants Steal Affiliate Commissions
Did you know that many ClickBank merchants are blatantly stealing your commissions from right under your nose?
It’s true. And the modus operandi of these thieves?
Simple … the float in subscription form.
Imagine the scene: You have just been charged $0.25 by Google Adwords for a click that has sent someone through your ClickBank affiliate link to the product sales page. When they arrive there however, a form slides into view asking for their email address in return for a free download on the same topic, such as a sample chapter, a related ebook by the same author, or a demo version of the software.
As potential buyers, many visitors will want to look at this before making a purchase decision. So they surrender their email address and are forwarded away from the sales page to one asking them to check their email now for the download.
Moments later, “your” customer is reading an email they have received directly from the ClickBank merchant and are are clicking back to the website with the vendors own link, and in so doing, overwriting your ClickBank cookie with their own. Bye bye commission!
