Posted on Sunday 4 March 2007 - IbSeo.com Home
Clickbank is the biggest digital marketplace and affiliate resource. The only market digital products and track both merchant sales and affiliate subsales.
If you promote products as an affiliate, you should be watchful that sales really are credited to you. Normally this works fine and if you want to be extra sure you can “cloak” your link.
Lately, many clickbank (and other networks) associates have been grumbling about lost sales. Perhaps this message from Clickbank themselves can bring light to what is going on:
We have received reports of affiliates’ hoplinks not being tracked on sales, and affiliates not receiving credit for sales they have promoted. We are continuing to investigate these reports, but our findings to-date point to customers that have Spybot Search & Destroy, with ?Immunize? enabled on their computers.
While we are making every effort to understand and address these reports, in looking at our sales statistics, we find that affiliate-driven sales as a percentage of total sales has been increasing from the beginning of 2006, and that rate of increase has remained steady.
We are also researching alternative methods to improve tracking of affiliate identification.
Needless to say, if you have search and destoy installed - consider uninstalling it. This is not a clickfraid operation but sounds more like malware.
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