You must first sign up for your FREE ClickBank account. If you have not yet signed up for a ClickBank account, please click HERE and get your free account, as you will be paid commission by ClickBank for any sales that you generate. During the signup process you will select your ClickBank nickname. Your nickname is your unique ID that allows us to accurately track and award the commissions you earn. You will use your nickname in all affiliate links (hoplinks) that you create.

2. How much can I earn?

Commissions range from 1% to 75% and are determined by the publisher of the product. The minimum commission for a single sale is $0.25, and the maximum is $100.00. If you are selling a recurring billing product, affiliates will earn commission for the life of the subscription. The commission rate offered at the time of the initial payment remains the same for all rebills. Keep in mind that the initial payment must be equal or greater than the subsequent rebills. Therefore, the amount affiliates earn for the initial payment may be greater than the amount they earn for the rebill payments. If a recurring billing product or subscription is canceled, no future commissions will be awarded.

3. Can I use one ClickBank Account for all of my affiliate links?

Yes. You can promote any number of ClickBank products with your one ClickBank account.

4. How do I identify the most successful products to promote?

Some affiliates prefer to promote very popular products that attract lots of affiliates (high affiliate gravity), while others prefer to promote products with less advertising exposure (lower affiliate gravity). The Marketplace can be sorted, within each category and sub-category, by item gravity. Either way, your best bet is to promote products that are well presented and likely to appeal to the people who visit your website, or view your advertisements.

For more information visit Clickbank MARKETPLACE.

 5. Create a hoplink

Your hoplinks should be targeted to the top level of the current window and should be in the following format:

http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net

This is what it looks like in html:

• Replace AFFILIATE with your affiliate Nickname
• Replace PUBLISHER with the publisher Nickname
• Replace CLICK HERE with any promotional text or image you prefer

For example, to make a hoplink to the Marketplace, use “Marketplace” as the PUBLISHER name in your hoplink:

http://AFFILIATE.marketplace.hop.clickbank.net

Be sure to replace “AFFILIATE” with your own ClickBank affiliate Nickname.

To open a hoplink in a new window set the target attribute of the hoplink to “_blank”. Here’s an example:

6. Cloak a hoplink

The secret is to send the customer to a url of your own that quietly redirects them through the correct hoplink. We recommend using the html below. Don’t forget to replace each occurrence of AFFILIATE and PUBLISHER with the correct value!

If your web server runs php you can use this simple script instead:

7. Calculating Commissions

Here is an example of the commission calculation if you are promoting a product that offers a 55% commission:

Therefore, as the referring affiliate for this sale, you would earn $14.69.

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