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[Raven1]

Oh gee. I only just started out with Clickbank and now I'm really worried! What if all my efforts are being mostly lost to fried cookies?

Please keep us updated on this as I'd like to know what's happening too.

Now I"m depressed.

[desjefkadjef]

I have not attempted to check my clickbank links also. I use them alot and it's dissapointing if they don't care about browser and cookie issues. I will call also and maybe if enough of us do this there will be a change. There are other affiliate programs out there.

Desiree

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[LydiaB]

I don't think this problem is going to go away. As time goes on there will be a greater push to block hidden software from getting on one's machine.

It is a great opportunity for anyone who can come up with cookie-less tracking.

In the meantime, I think I will stay away from Clickbank. It sounds like it isn't worth the effort.

[AndyTampa]

I'm probably mistaken here, but I believe most, if not all, of the major networks use cookies. Clickbank uses first party cookies which are blocked less often. However, if you use a framed page to refer a customer, and your frame sets the cookie, then it will be a third party cookie.

I also think I've read once somewhere else (I've read too much to remember) about a private affiliate program or two that keeps the records of their customers associated with the affiliate who referred them. This negates the need for the cookie to be kept on the customers machine as well as tracks future, upsell, and backend sales to the affiliate. I don't know how widespread this is, but for a network like CJ or CB to do this would be a huge database to maintain for all it's products.

[Newbie Shield]

Andy is right, most if not all major affiliate networks use tracking cookies. They have to do this to credit commissions. It's nothing to worry about. They have to do it somehow and tracking cookies is a good solution.

~Newbie Shield~

[eternlive]

what about using affiliate link masking softwares, even i can give one free

[kpm2319]

Any update on Clickbank...has anyone dropped clickbank because of this....is it still a problem??

[HectaG]

Wow!! I quite using IE7 a long time ago and use Opera as my main browser and use Mozilla when something gets buggy.

Thanks for the heads-up! I am recently new to clickbank what others out there other than clickbank can we use?

[figarries]

ClickBank has always worked for me and I don't see any problems with it now. It has been working ever since I got it. I don't think its IE 7.

[AndyTampa]

The problem is not with Clickbank or the browser. Spybot-S&D reads clickbank cookies as spyware and removes them. Marketers have absolutely no control over who uses Spybot. It's just a fact that you need to be aware of. There's nothing you can do about it. If you want to sell clickbank products, you'll have to use clickbank. There are other networks out there if you decide to go elsewhere, but clickbank has the most products to choose from.

You will lose sales in internet marketing. It is inevitable. It won't be just because of cookies either.

[HectaG]

Now that this has been put to bed...

upward and onward!!

Thanks Andy!

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[daveshouse]

Wow. Thanks alot for looking into that. If alot of people are using spy-bot, that's definitely a problem.

[multihb]

Hello everyone,

I did not read all the comments in this thread,
but I have experienced that same specific problem when using IE7.0

It seems to ignore affiliate links and that issue seems to happen regularly.

I use Firefox and Seamonkey and other mozilla based browsers mainly,so I did not noticed that high severity
issue before when using IE7.0 because I use it very rarely,I simply don't like it.

Anyway I suppose US internet users use mainly IE7.0 so if we don't take a note of this,we will loose a lot of
possible affiliate profits and referrals to program owners.

I have now tested IE7.0 with my affiliate links and really it "kills" the ref codes so all sales and recruiting from IE7.0 users are going like smoke to the sky.

This does not seem to be any spyware software's cookie killing issue, but solely the problem in IE7.0 itself.

After some test I found that if using HTML refreshing redirection in my own domain as well as using PHP redirection will fix the problem. If doing so,affiliate links seems to work OK.

The same system seems to work with clickbank hop-links too

I hope this resolve this issue,

Please let me know your tests and opinions..

All the best

Aatos

Ps. Here are both of thse code solutions that you can use,

HTML:

<html>

<head>

<title>Your Programs name</title>

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=http://www.youraffiliatesite.com">

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

PHP:

<?php header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); header("Location:http://www.youraffiliatesite.com"); ?>

First make some folder in your website,second if you use upper code,save it as index.html and upload to that
folder in your website.

Another code in the bottom, do the same,make folder save code as index.php and upload to your website folder.

I hope codes show correctly in this mail.