Step 2: Affiliate Hoplink Instructions
Once you have signed up at Clickbank for an affiliate account (it’s free, just go back to Step 1 to see the Clickbank Sign Up Instructions), then you are ready to start promoting and marketing the e-book.
Marketing the Challenge Workouts products is simple. All you do is put special links on your webpages or in your newsletters to send traffic to the Challenge Workouts website. These links are called “Clickbank HOPLINKS” and they are important because this is how Clickbank keeps track of the traffic you send to the Challenge Workouts website and gives you credit for the e-book sales you generate.
So the very first step after you have signed up for your Clickbank account is to understand how to make a hoplink. Make sure that you follow these instructions very carefully.
YOU are responsible to make sure your hoplinks are coded correctly.
Here is how to correctly make your hoplink:
The current standard Clickbank hoplink format is: http://xxxxxxx.vendor.hop.Clickbank.net
1ruckus is the vendor (product) name, so that looks like this: http://xxxxxxx.1ruckus.hop.Clickbank.net
So now, all you have to do is insert YOUR Clickbank affiliate nickname in the place where the xxxxxxx is located.
For example, if your affiliate nickname is shawnak (note: use YOUR nickname, this is just an example!), then the hoplink would look like this: http://shawnak.1ruckus.hop.Clickbank.net
That’s all there is to it. When someone clicks through YOUR hoplink, they are redirected to www.challengeworkouts.com and a “cookie” (a small tracking file) is dropped onto the computer of the visitor. This “marks” that visitor as coming from your referral.
Clickbank uses 60 day cookies, so that means if the people you send to ChallengeWorkouts.com purchase that day or if they return any time within the next 60 days, you will get the commission for the sale (currently 75% commission rate of the sale).
I have one last suggestion. If you are using hoplinks on a web page, it is best you use a “DISPLAY URL” of www.ChallengeWorkouts.com rather than exposing the actual Clickbank hoplink. Tests have shown that when people realize they are “being sold something” on a commission basis (as opposed to simply getting a “recommendation” from an independent 3rd party), the conversion rates may drop, therefore it’s best to “hide” your affiliate hoplink in your HTML code and use www.ChallengeWorkouts.com as the display link.
Some advanced internet marketers even use “link cloaking” or “affiliate redirects” for this reason. If you’re interested in “affiliate redirects” the Affiliate URL, click HERE to learn how.
Feel free to contact me should you have any difficulties. I am not a web master, but I will help you in any way I can.
Sincerely,
Shawna Kaminski
Author of Challenge Workouts