What's Going On At Clickbank?

The other week over at Wealthy Affiliate University I noticed some members in the forum were discussing Clickbank and asking what on earth was going on with them.

Apparently some of the members had been trying to create a new hoplink but instead of the usual hoplink format, they were getting a lot of jumbled letters and numbers.

In case you are unfamilar with Clickbank hoplinks, this is the usual format:

http://your-id.vendor-id.hop.clickbank.net

but instead they were getting something like this:

http://2ab35wmclvdxft2xzel8f5wbn.hop.clickbank.net/

Naturally as affiliate marketers who rely on affiliate hoplinks to receive credit for our sales, a lot of people were very concerned.

There was only one way to find out what was going on at Clickbank, so I headed over there to investigate further.

It turns out that Clickbank have had a facelift. They have changed their company colours and added some new features. One of the new features is the HopLink Shield. The HopLink Shield is a new free tool that encrypts affiliate and vendor nicknames in hoplinks. This is to give an extra layer of privacy and anonymity to hoplinks, keeping affiliates' promotional efforts and techniques hidden from others. In the past some affiliates have had their affiliate commissions stolen by unscrupulous people who had changed their affiliate hoplinks to theirs. So the HopLink Shield does seems like a very good idea.

Clickbank states that the old syle hoplinks are still valid so now we have a choice of either the normal old style hoplink or the new improved encoded hoplink. Some affiliates don't seem to trust the new encrypted hoplinks but whatever you think, the choice is yours.

Talking of hoplinks got me to remember when I was a newbie just starting out and how confusing things like hoplinks and hyperlinking seemed. Therefore I have made a simple Newbie Clickbank Guide for affiliate newbies to explain how to sign up with Clickbank, create a hoplink and where to place that hoplink on a web pages to get credit for any sales generated.

So mystery solved, now lets get back to work!

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