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Today we are going to present you a ClickBank Link Hack which is supported by the ClickBank sales system. It is not actually a hack, because this mechanism is provided by ClickBank. However this opportunity is not well documented and many affiliates don’t know about it.

This ClickBank Link Hack is used when you want to place a product’s payment link right on your own website or in the emails (read carefully the next section) to customers. For example, you don’t like a publisher’s sales page and you’ve created your own copy. This link will redirect a buyer right to the order page.

So, here is a payment link template:
http://ITEM.AFFILIATE_PUBLISHER.pay.clickbank.net/
where:
ITEM is a number 1..500
PUBLISHER is a publisher’s ClickBank ID
AFFILIATE is your ClickBank ID

As you know the publisher may have many items (different products, discounts and so on). Usually a main product is located under the 1st item. Here is an example of the usage of the payment link:
http://1.john123_ipodpsp.pay.clickbank.net/

But! Don’t use it in such simple way! It’s very crucial!

It will work only if a customer has never seen a publisher’s sales page. For example, if you recommend some new product to your prospects.

But if a customer has already been on the publisher’s website via another affiliate’s link you will not receive a commission! And as you know there are lots of such customers.

What to do?

You should use an invisible “iframe” somewhere at the beginning of your own sales page on your website. Here is an HTML for it:

<iframe width="100" height="100"
src="http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net/"
style="display:none"></iframe>

Then write some promotional message. And then put the payment link:

<a href="http://ITEM.AFFILIATE_PUBLISHER.pay.clickbank.net/">Click Here To Order Now</a>

That’s it.

If you want to recommend a product via email to your customers, make a simple order page on your website as described just above and publish a link to this page in your emails.

What is your huge advantage?

As was said in the ClickBank Refund Rate blog post, it is always much more easier to promote discounted products. How can you find them?

You can use our free ClickBank Analysis Tool – CBGraph

Let’s look on the product BABDOTCOM.
Switch to the “Items + Refunds” report:
http://cbgraph.com/show-product.php?id=BABDOTCOM#items

You may notice that 1st, 3rd and 4th items are very likely the same product. But the price is various. It is obvious (look on the refund rate) that the main item is 3rd (for $27). 1st item ($19) is probably being used as a discounted one (one time offer, for intimate customers, etc).

And here is your advantage: use 1st item in your promotions. Just imagine: which PPC campaign will be more successful: one that says buy here for $27 or another one for only $19?

If you found a discounted item it is a great opportunity to receive fresh leads. Just place a subscription form on your website and send the payment link after a customer is subscribed to your mailing list.

You may think that such implementation may violate the ClickBank terms of service. It doesn’t. At least for today. But you must check (buy) the discounted item yourself. Because sometimes there may be unprepared item (if a customer will buy such item and complain to ClickBank, you may have some problems).

Hope this blog post was helpful This hack was first seen on this cool video. But be sure to use the “iframe”

One of the most frustrating things when promoting ClickBank products is a Refund of a product. But, you can predetermine a ClickBank Refund Rate for products before you promote them.

Just go to CBGraph.com. Open stats for a product you are interested in. And click on the “Items + Refunds” report:

Let’s look on this example (for MSNCODE):

This vendor has only one item: 1.
You can see its description, payment type, price, earnings and ClickBank refund rate = 0.4%.
This rate means that about 0.4 customers from 100 are asking for the refund (it’s about 4 people from 1000).

But if a vendor has many items (different products, one time offers, discounted items and so on), a column Refund rate will probably have improper value (negative or huge). In this situation it’s impossible to calculate the rate.

However, don’t frustrate:

1. Quite often a vendor per se uses only one item. Go to the sales page and try to find different order options such as upsales, discounts, etc. If there is only one price (for one product), look for it in the “Item + Refunds” report. Refund rate near it will most likely be the actual refund rate.

2. If there are lots of items you can find some discounts. For example take a look on the product 0814975505:

7th item is a 50% discounted ebook!

And there are lots of such discounts for ClickBank products. Just imagine how it’s easier to promote a product with a smaller price! There is a trick. You can actually forward a customer to buy the specified item. Very likely you already know about this trick, however we will describe it soon, stay tuned