Vendor page showing hop
Submitted by socrates on Thu, 12/14/2006 - 22:10.
Looking at the pich pages on clickbank and see several in this form of url
http://quitsmoking.freshstartmethod.com/?hop=0
I think that the more sophisticated vendors use a redirect so that hop=mystuff
doesn't show. Is there any thing i can do to avoid showing the hop on the sales page or is that caused by the way the vendor sets up the site?
Thanks
Vendor page showing hop
There is nothing you can do about it because it's on the merchants site. However, I would e-mail your merchant and encourage them do do an auto-refresh so it doesn't look like an affiliate link:
Here's how I do it:
I place a small snippet of code on my ClickBank landing page, it then redirects to the same page, but strips out the url variables. The cookie is already sent when they route through ClickBank so you don't have to worry about messing up the tracking.
Here is the code:
header("Location: http://www.quityourdayjob.com/ebook/");
exit();
?>
Vendor page showing hop
Hi Jeremy.
Were you referring to the following from the post above?
1) You send your visitor through your affiliate link to the merchant's sales page.
2) Before he lands there you redirect him to www.merchantsalespage.com (with affiliate cookie already planted) without hop variable showing on in his browser's address bar?
Correct me if i got this wrong.
Thanks.
Vendor page showing hop
Not exactly. This guy was wondering how he could get his affiliate id to be removed from the merchants URL. I mentioned that as a Clickbank merchant I did a quick 302 redirect to remove any tracking parameters from the URL. This way the affiliate still gets credit for the sale, but it doesn't look like an affiliate link to the customer. It's a subtle thing that probably has a minimal impact.
Best,
Jeremy
PLG script
There is a way to remove annoying hops from address bar at the sales page.
Mike Filsaime's Power Link Generator is capable of this.
There is an option in program to bypass merchant's landing page after dropping affiliate cookie first and then redirecting visitor to final landing page.
For example:
Visitor clicks on your affiliate link on your website and gets redirected to authentic ClickBank's affiliate link, but doesn't land there. Instead he is redirected further to final landing page chosen by you.
So instead landing on www.merchant.com/hop=xxx visitor lands on address you have chosen and in this case it will be www.merchant.com/ (without this hop)
But i am concerned if you can do this method manually without any script.