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2. 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:
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3. 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
http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website1
http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website2
Link your different website to this page like:
Link website 1 to http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website1
Link website 2 to http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?x=website2
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4. 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
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5. 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.
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6. Let’s make this visual:
Solution 1 Drive affiliate traffic for your own affiliate hoplink
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/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
http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff1
http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff2
I would in this case call the parameter hop since Clickbank also calls the affiliate parameter
hop (to overcome confusion).
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7. Links your affiliates get could look like:
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:
http:// affiliatex. producty.hop.clickbank.net?tid=<?php echo str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET[‘hop’])?
>
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8. Which will show up on the in between page as:
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
after the email subscription.
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.
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9. 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="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="sbm" name="submit" value="" type="submit" /></form>
</div>
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10. 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 3 rd 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>
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11. 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>
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12. Which will show up on the in between page as:
<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>
Ones the visitor signs up through the email form your autoreponder account will store this
extra affid value with the visitors email and name.
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13. 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.
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/squueze.php
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15. 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
http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff1
http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?hop=cbaff2
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:
Affiliate 1 gets link http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?
hop=cbaff1
Affiliate 2 gets link http://www.page.com/squeeze.php?
hop=cbaff2
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16. 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
Which will show up on the in between page as:
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
after the email subscription.
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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17. Using CBLeads To Gain Afiliates
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.
And if this entire lead technique goes beyond your skills…CbLeads can track leads for your
Clickbank products: http://www.cbleads.com
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18. 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…
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19. 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
http://www.TimBekker.com/partners.php
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:
http://www.TimBekker.com/partners.php?hop=affid
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
Function using the Clickbank ID.
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20. ⇒ 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.
<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>
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”
<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>
Remember our example in the first lead tracking technique. Now the affid field shows
the Clickbank nickname of the partner that referred the new partner:
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21. •
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.
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22. 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.
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?
That’s a good question. Let’s make this visual!
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23. 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.
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