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HEY!!!
What's Goin' On!?
My HopLink Doesn't Work!!!
In a recent article in the
Big Dogs Bulletin.....
(http://bigdogsecrets.com/Article
1 07-19-02.htm)
.....we discussed the
problem of “commission hijacking.”
In an effort to curb this
unethical practice, ClickBank has
recently taken steps to modify their programming.
I won’t bore you with the technical details
but suffice it to say that once you use a hoplink
to go to the “Secrets of the Big Dogs” sales
page, a “cookie” is placed on your computer. Then
whenever you return to the sales page, you are
taken to the purchase area belonging to the Big
Dogs affiliate whose hoplink you
first clicked on
to get there, no matter WHICH
hoplink you use to get there on
succeeding visits.
This is a big improvement
since it makes “commission hijacking”
nearly impossible.
BUT!…..there is a small
"flaw" in the new system that ClickBank
didn’t foresee! It is now
impossible for us to verify that our own hoplinks are working properly by
simply clicking on them ourselves!
Let’s use a brief example.....
Assume that the hoplink you
FIRST used to arrive at the ebook sales
page was…..
http://hop.clickbank.net/hop.cgi?johnsmith/bigdogs
Now, no matter how often
you go BACK to the sales page, and no
matter WHOSE hoplink you use to get there
(including your own), the FIRST Big Dogs affiliate (John Smith) will
get the commission. Thus
if a commission hijacker goes to the Big Dogs sales page using your hoplink,
and decides he's going to make the purchase by inserting his ClickBank
nickname into the standard hoplink format, YOU WILL STILL GET THE
CREDIT! This is good and fair and prevents
“commission hijacking,” but it comes at a price.
Do you see what we’re
talking about?
Yep!
You got it! Let's say
that you’ve purchased the ebook, upgraded
to Alpha Dog, and the first thing we tell you
to do is to verify that your hoplink is working properly.
But what happens when you use YOUR hoplink
from YOUR computer now!? YOU
ARE TAKEN, NOT TO YOUR PURCHASE
PAGE, BUT TO THE PURCHASE PAGE OF THE
PRIOR AFFILIATE (YOUR SPONSOR)!
Now, there’s nothing to
worry about – you won’t lose sales.
Why? Because it is only
from YOUR computer (because of the
"cookie") that you can’t get to YOUR sales page. When
someone clicks on your hoplink from a DIFFERENT
computer, they will be taken to YOUR sales
page, just as they should be.
So ClickBank’s change is
a good one, in that it stops unethical
people from stealing your commissions,
but the flaw is that we can no longer
verify our hoplinks from OUR computers!
Or CAN we!?.....
Of course we can. It
just takes a wee bit more work.
You simply delete the
"cookies" form your browser's file folder. For example, in
the most current version of Internet Explorer, go to the main tool bar near
the top, and click on "Tools." On the drop down menu
that appears, click on "Internet Options." In the "General"
file folder (the one that opens on default), simply click on the "Delete
Cookies" button, and then verify that you do, indeed, wish to "delete
all cookies in the temporary Internet files folder." Just one
word of caution: you do NOT want to turn OFF cookies. (some
programs require that cookies be turned on in your computer to work)
You merely want to delete the cookies that are in your temp files.
NOW when you copy and paste your ClickBank hoplink into your browser window
and go to the Big Dogs sales site, you will find YOUR ClickBank nickname in
the lower left corner of the standard ClickBank purchase page...just as you
should.
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