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1 From personal link to hoplink

Explanation: In volume 1 I already revealed how to setup personal links by adding ?

x=uniqueid to the end of an URL

In this chapter I will tell you how to use the PHP ECHO function to go from your personal link

to your hoplink

This technique is perfect for if you don’t want your traffic to go instantly to your CB hoplink,

but rather want to send them to an “in between” page first. On this page you can for instance

capture the email or other info form your traffic first.

If you send traffic from your websites instantly to your hoplink you have no control over the

traffic anymore and you won’t be able to retrieve any precious information.

Let’s make this visual:



Solution

Create a separate (squeeze) page for which we create our own personalized links. IN this

example we will call this page http://www.page.com/squeeze.php

We create the personal links with as unique ID your websites, website1, website2, etc.

(remember the subid in Volume 1?)

Your personal links could look like

Link your different website to this page like:


http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website1http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website2

Link website 1 to http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website1Link website 2 to http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website2


http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website2




http://www.page.com/squeeze.php

Use the PHP ECHO function on the in between page to call the value after the “x” parameter,

in this example “website1” value from behind the personal link and print it in the hoplink:

http:// affiliatex. producty.hop.clickbank.net?tid=<?php echo str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET['x’])?>

Which will show up on the in between page as:

http:// affiliatex. producty.hop.clickbank.net?tid=website1

This will be the hoplink where you send your traffic to from the in between page; for instance

after the email subscription.

As you can see it will print the correct website in the as subid in the hoplink and you will be

able to track sales per website again in your CB account, but now with an “in between page”

where you can collect information



2 From personal link to hoplink with affiliate traffic

Explanation: In the last chapter I taught you how to go from a personal link to a hoplink

with an “in between page” and still managed to keep subid tracking per website.

This technique works with traffic coming from your own websites.

Of course it is much nicer if the influx of traffic is not just coming from your own website but

also from affiliates.

In this chapter I will tell you how to use the PHP ECHO function to go from your personal link

to your hoplink with affiliate traffic.

However please note that there are multiple variants of this technique. You could like the last

chapter use this technique while promoting an affiliate offer, though mostly when you work

with affiliates you do it with your own offer/product.

I will go through both options and I will also tell you how you will be able to see which affiliates

perform and which affiliates are sending BS traffic.

This technique is perfect for if you want to drive traffic to your CB hoplink(s) (whether that’s as

affiliate or seller), but you don’t have your own traffic generating websites.

Use other CB affiliates to drive traffic by giving them a commission per action.



Let’s make this visual:

Solution 1 Drive affiliate traffic for your own affiliate hoplink


example we will call this page http://www.page.com/squueze.php

Create personal links for your affiliates with as unique ID their CB nicknames for instance

cbaff1, cbaff2 etc…

Your personal affiliate links could look like

I would in this case call the parameter hop since Clickbank also calls the affiliate parameter

hop (to overcome confusion).


http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff1 http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff2


http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff2


http://www.page.com/squueze.php

Links your affiliates get could look like:

Use the PHP ECHO function on the in between page to call the value after the

“hop”parameter, in this example “cbaff1” value from behind the personal link and print it in the

hoplink:

http:// affiliatex. producty.hop.clickbank.net?tid=<?php echo str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET[‘hop’])?

>


Affiliate 1 gets link: http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff1

Affiliate 2 gets link: http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff2







http:// affiliatex. producty.hop.clickbank.net?tid=cbaff1

This will be the hoplink where you send your traffic to from the in between page, for instance


As you can see it will print the correct affiliate in the as subid in the hoplink and you will be

able to track sales per affiliate again in your CB account, but now with an “in between page”

where you can collect information.

Since you can see through which affiliate the sale was made you could for instance offer a

commission per sale to your affiliates.

However I think that in this specific occasion it’s better to pay your affiliates per lead (email

signup), like $1.00.

You simply place an email form on your in between page and collect emails/build an email list

from you affiliate traffic before forwarding them to your hoplink.

For this you need to know of course which affiliate brought the lead. This works exactly the

same.



Track affiliates leads on in between page

This lead tracking technique per affiliate works with every autoresponder software, whether

that’s Aweber, GetResponse, iContact or any other.

All email form codes look a little bit different but they work the same.

The code exists of fields. The exact number of fields can be specified by you in your email

account. The most basic email forms just have an email and name field, but some bigger

ones may also have phone and address fields.

For this example I will use a very simple email code with just an email and name field.


<form action="http://cm.cypra.com/t/r/s/zljod/" method="post" id="sub-Form"> <input class="txt" id="name" name="cm-name" value="your name" type="text" /><input class="txt2" id="zljod-zljod" name="cm-zljod-zljod" value="your email" type="text" /><input class="sbm" name="submit" value="" type="submit" /></form></div>


What will look like

Now to track the leads per affiliate simply add one custom field in your email account that you

can call “affid”.

Copy and paste the email form code on your “in between page” but make the 3rd new field, the

“affid” field, a “hidden” field. This way it is still there, but your traffic can’t see it.


<form action="http://cm.cypra.com/t/r/s/zljod/" method="post" id="subForm"> <input class="txt" id="name" name="cm-name" value="your name" type="text" /><input class="txt2" id="zljod-zljod" name="cm-zljod-zljod" value="your email" type="text" /><input class="hidden" id="affid" name="cm-f-xukikk" value="print affiliate id" type="hidden" /><input class="sbm" name="submit" value="" type="submit" /></form></div>


That’s exactly what we want because this field isn’t supposed to be filled in by your traffic,

because we are going to auto fill this field with the affiliate id of the affiliate that brought the

visitor.

Your page would still look like this for your traffic:

Now use the PHP ECHO function again on the in between page to call the value after the

“hop” parameter, in this example “cbaff1” value from behind the personal link and print it as

the value of the custom field “affid”:


<form action="http://cm.cypra.com/t/r/s/zljod/" method="post" id="subForm"> <input class="txt" id="name" name="cm-name" value="your name" type="text" /><input class="txt2" id="zljod-zljod" name="cm-zljod-zljod" value="your email" type="text" /><input class="hidden" id="affid" name="cm-f-xukikk" value="<?php echo

str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET[‘hop’])?>" type="hidden" /><input class="sbm" name="submit" value="" type="submit" /></form></div>



Ones the visitor signs up through the email form your autoreponder account will store this

extra affid value with the visitors email and name.


<form action="http://cm.cypra.com/t/r/s/zljod/" method="post" id="subForm"> <input class="txt" id="name" name="cm-name" value="your name" type="text" /><input class="txt2" id="zljod-zljod" name="cm-zljod-zljod" value="your email" type="text" /><input class="hidden" id="affid" name="cm-f-xukikk" value="cbaff1" type="hidden" /><input class="sbm" name="submit" value="" type="submit" /></form></div>


Now you have:

a) Captured a lead before sending the traffic to your hoplink

b) You used affiliate traffic for it

c) You know which affiliates sent the lead

d) If the guy also buys a product after he signed up through the email form you also know

which affiliate made you’re the sale (refer to the first part of this chapter)

This is all really important information.

Since you can track the leads back per affiliate you can pay affiliates per lead, like $1.00.

And since you also can track which affiliates make the actual CB sales at the end you know

exactly which affiliates bring you quality converting traffic and which affiliates bring you BS

traffic.

Affiliates that don’t make any sales for you at the end through your hoplink you have (of

course) to ban ASAP from paying them $1.00 per lead. They will just cost you money.

The cool part is that the entire technique is 100% free. So no expensive costs to buy lead

tracking whatsoever.

Solution 2 Drive affiliate traffic for your own CB product

This technique works exactly the same as solution 1.

The only difference is that if you are driving affiliate traffic for your own product you could also

offer the affiliate a percentage of the CB sale on top of the commission you pay per lead.


example we will call this page http://www.page.com/squueze.php



http://www.page.com/squueze.php

Create personal links for your affiliates with as unique ID their CB nicknames for instance

cbaff1, cbaff2 etc..

Your personal affiliate links could look like

I would in this case call the parameter hop since Clickbank also calls the affiliate parameter

hop. (to overcome confusion)

Links your affiliates get could look like:


http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff1 http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff2

Affiliate 1 gets link http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff1

Affiliate 2 gets link http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff2








Use the PHP ECHO function on the in between page to call the value after the “hop”

parameter, in this example “cbaff1” value from behind the personal link and print it in the

hoplink on the spot of the affiliateCBnickname:

http:// <?php echo str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET[‘hop’])?>.producty.hop.clickbank.net?tid=subid


http:// cbaff1.producty.hop.clickbank.net?tid=subid

This will be the hoplink where you send your traffic to from the in between page, for instance


As you can see it will print the correct affiliate in the as affiliate in the hoplink and you will be

able to reward the right affiliate with the affiliate commission if a sale appears for your product,

with an “in between page” where you can collect information.

Of course the lead part, where you track which affiliate brought the lead (email subscription)

works exactly the same as in Solution 1.



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If you don’t know how or where to get affiliates that can drive traffic you could for instance

have a look at our cbleads.com platform where at the moment over 23,000 affiliates are

registered.

We offer multiple options to recruit affiliates, under which paid mailings to our CbLeads

network list.

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Clickbank products: http://www.cbleads.com



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3 Creating a 2nd tier with CB to stimulate affiliate signups

Explanation: It’s really an easy way to track 2nd Tiers yourself for a Clickbank Product that

actually doesn’t have a 2nd tier.

For those that don’t know what a 2nd Tier Program is…

It is nothing more than rewarding a partner for referring another partner. A normal affiliate

program rewards a partner for making a sale to a customer. Imagine there are 2 partners,

partner A and partner B. A 2 tier program rewards partner A for referring partner B with a % of

partner B’s sales volume or just a fixed fee per partner signup.

Why should you have a 2nd Tier Program?By adding a 2nd tier you make it attractive for partners to refer other partners.

Results: Your number of partners (the number of promoters for your product(s)) increases big

time

Results: your sales grow big time! (and that’s what everybody wants RIGHT?)

Really guys, adding a 2nd Tier can grow your partner database exponentially. Do NOT

underestimate this. And the fun thing is, I don’t have to teach you anything new because

adding a 2nd TIER works exactly the same way as lead tracking.



Adding a 2nd Tier IS a form of lead tracking…

Where we stored the partner/Clickbank ID from person 1 in the first lead tracking technique

with the sign up information of the new subscriber (person 2) we now have to store the

Clickbank ID from partner 1 with the signup info of partner 2 (the new partner that signed up)

IMPLEMENTATION:

Simply use the side technique “creating a personalized link” to create the JV/partner

referral links. These are the links you give to your partners to get them to refer other

partners.

Example:

If your partners signup page is located at

Then you can create a partner referral link by adding a parameter + a UNIQUE

characteristic (the partner affiliateCBnickname).

If we call the parameter “hop” then the partner referral link will simply look like:

You will give this link to affiliates so they can refer other partners. It’s that simple!

Now just remember all the steps from the lead tracking technique and the ECHO Func-

tion using the Clickbank ID.


http://www.TimBekker.com/partners.php

http://www.TimBekker.com/partners.php?hop=affid


Place a partner signup form on partner sign up page with one extra field. Also ask for

the Clickbank Id of the partner that signs up.

When partner 2 signs up, the partner ID from partner 1 gets sent with the signup

information of partner 2 to your autoresponder account and again we can see who

referred partner 2 through the value in the “affid” field.

Assume that affiliate with the CB Nickname “ethyx456” is recruiting new partners. Then

the value for the “affid” field would show “ethyx456”

Remember our example in the first lead tracking technique. Now the affid field shows


<form action="http://cm.cypra.com/t/r/s/zljod/" method="post" id="subForm"> <input class="txt" id="name" name="cm-name" value="your name" type="text" /><input class="txt2" id="zljod-zljod" name="cm-zljod-zljod" value="your email" type="text" /><input class="hidden" id="affid" name="cm-f-xukikk" value="ethyx456" type="hidden" /><input class="sbm" name="submit" value="" type="submit" /></form></div>

<form action="http://cm.cypra.com/t/r/s/zljod/" method="post" id="subForm"> <input class="txt" id="name" name="cm-name" value="your name" type="text" /><input class="txt2" id="zljod-zljod" name="cm-zljod-zljod" value="your email" type="text" /><input class="txt" id="cbid" name="cm-cbid" value="your Clickbank id" type="text" /><input class="hidden" id="affid" name="cm-f-xukikk" value="<?php echo

str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET[‘hop’])?>" type="hidden" /><input class="sbm" name="submit" value="" type="submit" /></form></div>


the Clickbank nickname of the partner that referred the new partner:

In the partner list the new partner signup record shows us the name of the new partner

Carl Wolf with his own Clickbank ID and the Clickbank nickname of his referrer

“ethyx456”.

If you now do a search for the affid “ethyx456” in the partner list you will find the name

of the referrer and the circle is round

You could offer an affiliate that refers other affiliates for instance 10% of their sales.



4 Creating a 2nd Tiers ALL-IN-ONE Link

Explanation: you know the phrase: good, better, best (in this scenario we’ll call it “best

solution”). Well, I got one for you. Setting up a 2 tier program with a separate partner referral

works great, but I have one that’s even better. The All-IN-One partner link.

Track leads, sales and partner signups using the same link. This overcomes

misunderstandings about which link to use. It just works much more efficiently!

However>>

The affiliate/partner link doesn’t redirect to the partner signup page, but to the product sales

page.

That’s a good question. Let’s make this visual!


How in the world do we echo the Clickbank ID of partner 1 in the “affid” field when partner 2 signs up on the partner page IF the affiliate link doesn’t take us to the partner signup page?


Implementatation:

The hoplink of partner 1 takes partner 2 (the new partner that wants to signup)

to the main site. The main site shows the “hop” value.



Partner 2 has to check the main site for a link or image called “affiliates” or “partners”

to access the affiliate/partner signup page. (It is usually at the bottom of a page)

In this example it’s a “Signup Now!” image, but it’s often an “affiliates” link is used at the

bottom of the page!

This signup button IS linked to the partner sign up page. To use the example from

the last chapter:



Remember the diagram: We have to pass the partner id in the link to the partners

signup page. So once again we have to use PHP ECHO to print the partner ID after

the link (the link from the signup button) that goes to the partners page (to create the

same link that you would have handed out to your partners in the 2nd Tier with a separ-

ate link technique)

You do NOT just link the signup button to

But you link the button to:

This way the partner ID gets pulled in from the link in the browser on your main

site and then forwarded to the link of your partner’s signup page when people

click the signup button.

And from there we go to the last chapter that teaches how to proceed with storing the

CBnickname with the new partner signup.




http://www.TimBekker.com/partners.php?hop=<?php echo str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET['hop’])?>


Optimization In this volume I am going to discuss a few do’s we discussed in the Do’s and Don’ts in more

detail. This part is all about optimization of your marketing efforts including dynamic

shorteners and the use of geo marketing and mobile tools.



Use Dynamic URL shorteners

Explanation: To overcome potential profit loss by using the hoplink itself of a URL shortener

where you can’t edit the destination URL afterwards due to the fact that a product is:

a) being shut down by Clickbank

b) facing hosting issues

c) just no longer available

d) not converting

e) Generating crazy refunds/chargebacks

Always use editable URL shorteners in your mailings.

Solution:

I recommend that you always use a free platform like TrafficClash.com first to shorten your

CB hoplink before any promotions. TrafficClash enables you to edit the destination URL (CB

hoplink) any time you want from your account.



http://trafficclash.com/?a=hoplink12

By using a dynamic URL shortener you can edit the destination URL anytime and send the

visitors to another location whenever you want. When a pitch page goes down, simply login to

your, in this example TrafficClash account and set the TrafficClash link to another destination

(another CB hoplink or offer).

Even if you don’t want to use any of the geo marketing features it has to offer at the beginning

you can setup a new shortened link within like 20 seconds.

In your account go to “My TrafficClashes”



http://trafficclash.com/

Click on “Create New TrafficClash”

Enter a “Title” so you can recognize the campaign easily later on, select the global traffic

category (or categories), give a group title (when you just use TrafficClash as URL shortener

you will just have one group, later on when you add GEO marketing, you can add multiple

groups) and of course enter the destination URL (the hoplink of the Cb product).



The hit “submit” and you are done. In the next screen you can see your new TrafficClash on

top. Click on “View” to get the short link.



Get your link under “fastlink”

A TrafficClash link would look like: http://TrafficClash.com/f/661



http://TrafficClash.com/f/661

And can be set from your account to redirect to any destination. When you want to change

the destination after the creation simply click on the “pencil” icon:

Scroll to the bottom and change the destination for the right group:



Use Geo Marketing Tools

Explanation: Let me ask you a simple question? If you know that Clickbank blocks certain

countries from ordering through their Clickbank Payment page, why would you send people

from those countries to your hoplink anyways?

Let me rephrase that. If you know that you are sending people over your hoplink that can’t

make you any money in the first place, why would you still send them over your hoplink? That

makes no sense right? That’s throwing away your money…

That’s why you have to exclude certain countries that are considered high risk countries or

blacklisted countries. Countries like:


AFGHANISTANANGOLAAZERBAIJANBOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINABANGLADESHBURKINA FASOBURUNDIBENINBELARUSCONGO, THE DEM REP OFCENTRAL AFRICAN REPCONGOCOTE D IVOIRECAMEROONCUBADJIBOUTIDOMINICAN REPUBLICALGERIAECUADORERITREAETHIOPIAGABONGUINEAEQUATORIAL GUINEAGUINEA-BISSAUGUYANAIRAQIRAN, ISLAMIC REP OFKENYAKOREA, DEM PEOPLES REPLIBERIALIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OFMADAGASCARMYANMARMONGOLIAMAURITANIAMALAWIMOZAMBIQUENIGERNIGERIANEPALPAPUA NEW GUINEAPALESTINIAN TERRITORYSERBIARWANDASUDANSIERRA LEONESENEGALSOMALIASYRIAN ARAB REPUBLICCHADTOGOTAJIKISTANTIMOR-LESTETURKMENISTANTANZANIA, UN REP OFUGANDAZAMBIA


With TrafficClash you can set different destinations per country/state of group of

country/states. You could for instance place all these high risk countries in a group and send

them to another page

Whether you are acting as an affiliate or seller you won’t sell anything to these countries after

all, so you can better redirect them to a page with ads for example (Google AdSense, AdBrite)

where you might be able to earn a few bucks from this traffic.

Even more you prevent possible fraudulent behavior from your sites, sales or signups.



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