Comments on: Internet Explorer 7 Nuking Clickbank Affiliate Links

By: samson

samson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:52:12 +0000

i’ve been promoting products from clickbank for about 4 wks. My account shows i have had 793 hops on my affiliate links during the period. yet no sale.

Is it likely that i’m not getting credit for the clicks? If so, what can i do to resolve the problem?

By: mgrizz

mgrizz — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:19:02 +0000

I’ve been on CB about 4 weeks and have had 0 sales. Adwords is getting rich though. How can you find out if your not getting your sales credits?

By: Bilbo

Bilbo — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:16:37 +0000

I’m glad Clickbank is blocked. I’m sick of targeted advertising, sick of popups and sick of sly Internet marketers in general. If I go to an advertising-supported site, it should say so clearly up front, giving me the option to stay and accept the advertising or to go elsewhere and not accept the advertising.

Hooray for Spybot S&D, IE7, Firefox and anything else that blocks this crap.

By: googie

googie — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:26:32 +0000

Get off the list. You must be subscribed to some list that promotes Clickbank stuff. I have hundreds of email addresses and thousands of rmails daily, and very rarely I get any spam to do with Clickbank. The problem is on YOUR side, pal. Don’t blame Clickbank for YOUR subscription habits. BTW spamming CB products is the most stupid idea in the world because CB closes the spammers accounts in seconds. Go get off that maillist and you’ll forget about “clickbank spam”

By: The Dino

The Dino — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:32:23 +0000

It night be some antispyware but than it would be less %. So maybe default settings of some Browser but definitely the Spybot. ClickBank will need to contact those companies to be removed from the list otherwise they are loosing money.

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Clickbank Affiliates Beware · Art Of Money — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:10:40 +0000

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By: john anthony

john anthony — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:47:29 +0000

do you have any updates on this CB problem since you first wrote it? i’m about 1.5 months into CB so i can’t tell if it’s affecting our sales b/c i have nothing to compare it to.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:26:45 +0000

Wow. I would have never known that without this post.

Dude, I just found your blog yesterday. I’m not kissing your ass or anything, but this is by far the most useful internet marketing blog I’ve found on the internet.

Huge props man, keep it up.

By: Geordie

Geordie — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:46:35 +0000

It’s Spybot Search & Destroy. The guy that runs it is in Germany good luck for Clickbank getting him to remove the cookie from their database… I blogged the screenshot from Spybot here: http://blog.revenuewire.com/?p=5

By: Broc

Broc — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:45:11 +0000

how would clickbank go about taking care of this little problem?

By: Garrie

Garrie — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:59:57 +0000

You need to RESEARCH before you start posting false information.

Let me give you the real, researched information.

1. In IE 7, there are not any urls listed by default. You are using a THIRD PARTY security application, like SpyBot, to have the URLs inserted. ie IT’S NOT MICROSOFT YOU USED A PROGRAM TO DO IT.

2. CB sets first party cookies. IE 7 ONLY blocks 3rd party cookies w/out a compact privacy policy by default. ie ClickBank cookies set just fine by default.

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:57:02 +0000

That’s a sly one. I guess many people still doesn’t know about this yet. Someone need to get the word out to them!

By: Christoph

Christoph — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:23:40 +0000

If you have Microsoft Defender or OneCare installed it can add those entries. I think Norton is another one that populates the IE settings.

If it is at work, your employer might have an Active Directory Group Policy defined with those settings.

Christoph

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:48:53 +0000

Yep, I’m almost 100% certain it’s spywarebot.

Cheers for testing it guys.

By: Dillinger

Dillinger — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:58:31 +0000

I just checked my IE7 settings and itÂ´s also empty.Maybe itÂ´s what Dominic says, some anti-spyware program that added them there.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:48:51 +0000

There are a couple of things here…

1. Most IE7 installs right now are happening on top of IE6 most likely. When you upgrade, IE7 inherits the security policy of IE6.

2. I just did a clean install of IE7 on a computer. Then I clicked on a CB hoplink — the cookie was set and the affiliate carried over to the checkout page.

IE7 implemented a zone trust model similar to many other products like ZoneAlarm.

There is no conspiracy against CB, Adsense, CJ or another network as was reported in other blog posts.

By: Michael Coley

Michael Coley — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:33:08 +0000

I wonder if it has anything to do with the massive volume of SPAM sent out by Clickbank affiliates? I receive more SPAM that goes through Clickbank than any other CPA Network.

If you lie down with dogs…

By: 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums

5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:12:30 +0000

ClickBank Affiliates – Cookie Warning IE7 or AntiSpyware?…

I was just reading over at the Earns blog about
Internet Explorer 7 Nuking Clickbank Affiliate Links
He says:
“There……

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:31:08 +0000

That’s a big thing this one. Let’s see what clickbank do, but they must act quickly, because the time is passing, and the affiliates are loosing money day after day, and some of them, that loosed money can be money thousand dollars, wich is very scary!

By: max

max — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:28:26 +0000

I don’t see this in my internet settings either but this isn’t the first time I’ve read about it. My sales have dropped in the last few weeks so I’m not quite sure what’s going on. Thanks for pointing this out Stuart.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:26:06 +0000

I guess the lesson here is to not promote anti-spyware no matter how much it pays out or how well it converts

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:41:29 +0000

Hmm good point, this was on my work pc. I think it might have spywarebot installed….

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:32:54 +0000

I just checked this in my IE7 and it is empty.
Do you use any anti-spyware that might add all those sites? I’ve heard of one anti-spyware product that wipes affiliate cookies, but can’t remember what it is called.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:57:48 +0000

Holy crap! That’s some ugly stuff happening. I hope CB gets off its butt to fix the problem.