Clickbank Link Hack and Tracking Frustrations

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I've looked everywhere on the net. Wondering if you wicked people know what I'm talking about.

I'm promoting a niche product from Clickbank primarily for PPC Traffic for now. I'm using the clickbank link hack since I don't want to send my visitors to the affiliate page. I instead want to send them directly to the Buy page from my site.

Instead of the traditional affiliate link (which I'm not using) http://affiliate.publisher.hop.clickbank.net?tid=1

I'm using the clickbank link hack (which I am using)
http://1.affiliate_publisher.pay.clickbank.net?tid=1 (as far as I've seen clickbank doesn't track the ?tid)

So here's my problem:

I'm having trouble getting clickbank to track my tids when I use the link hack, even though clickbank supports this. Therefore I'm not using it. Instead, I tried contacting the publisher to put my google conversion tracking code on the thank you page but they haven't responded after 2 emails.

Since I'm not using the normal clickbank affiliate link for my site and instead using the clickbank link hack it makes it difficult to track my tid's. And because I can't get the publisher to put my google conversion code on the thank you page I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to run the campaign unless I find another way to track my kws.

The publisher offers a way to import my google conversion number into my affiliate link but again this will only work if I'm sending my visitors to the publisher's landing page first before the actual sales page.

Does somebody know of a way to use the clickbank link hack and also be able to track tid's? Tracking202 makes it difficult because you have to input the affiliate link with the tid when setting up a new campaign, so that won't work. Conversionprophet is out the question too since you have to be able to put a tracking code on the thank you page.......

Thanks in advance.
 


Sending them to the checkout page is not enough. You need to plant the cookie of the publisher's LP.

Create and save the following file as file1.php:
Code: 
<?php
$tid = $_GET["tid"];
$to = CHECKOUT-PAGE-URL

echo "
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Please hold on while the page is loading...</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"1;url=$to\">
<center>Please hold on while the page is loading...</center>
<img width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=$tid\">
</HTML>
";
On P202 you should set the offer link to "http://yourwebsite.../file1.php?tid="

So when a user clicks on "download now" on your website, P202 will send him to file1.php, which will document the TID and send the user to the checkout page.

I didn't research this method too much but I heard it might not always work with certain browsers.
 
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