Affiliate Marketing with ClickBank

Almost anywhere on the Internet we can find the success stories describing how some people made a fortune selling products online. Well, 'course we are all aware that not all of these stories are true. But it would also be wrong to say that you can not make a comfortable living selling online. And 'possible and there are many successful entrepreneurs who make their living online.

One of the most popular activities on the Internet is called affiliate marketing. An affiliate marketer is someone who promotes a product or service offered by a third party (often called a merchant or a seller) and receives a commission for his efforts. The commissions can be earned by sending a potential customer to a merchant's web site (pay per lead), for each sale (Pay per Sale), for a click on the link to a merchant or a banner (for Pay Click), or a combination of the above.

Pay per Sale is the most popular form of affiliate marketing. What could be easier? Find a good product, promote it and get commissions. Well, unfortunately not so simple. There should be a mechanism in place that would have made sure that an affiliate marketer is properly credited for his efforts.

ClickBank is a company that makes it possible for affiliates to promote products and receive commissions for sales made. ClickBank now has an army of over 100,000 affiliates and over 6,300 products listed in over 90 categories. ClickBank only deals with digital products which means that there are no shipping involved 'buyer gets the product by e-mail or through a direct download from the site of a merchant when the payment is processed. ClickBank is a payment system. Accept payments by credit card, debit card, or PayPal.

So, how does ClickBank make possible an affiliate of being properly credited for his efforts? ClickBank is using the hop link to track the efforts of affiliation. In order to start promoting the products offered through ClickBank, an affiliate must register with ClickBank and get a unique ClickBank affiliate id. ClickBank The registration form can be found on [https://login.clickbank.net/signup/] page. The affiliate id is used to build a special hyperlink that has the following format: http://affiliateID.vendorID.hop.clickbank.net/.

When the above link is clicked, the browser is redirected to the server that sets the cookie ClickBank affiliate before the surfer's computer and then redirects the browser to the merchant's website. If the surfer then makes a purchase, the cookie is used to identify and credit the affiliate for the sale.

As you can see, it is very difficult to become a ClickBank affiliate and start promoting ClickBank products and services offered thought. But we must remember that not all products or services mentioned are worth promoting. There are several tools / services available on the Internet that you can use to check the history of performance products ClickBank and see if a product / service will convert. I'll discuss these tools in my next article .......