How To Promote 50 Products From One Clickbank Account

Note: Clickbank have changed their hoplinks. Nevertheless Robert's solution is still valid for the new hoplinks.

Clickbank is a great third-party system for selling your
products, but it's not perfect. The most noticeable problem
is that, even though you have the ability to offer up to 50
different products, you can only have one landing page.

This means that when an affiliate promotes your URL, you can
only take the user to the sales page of a particular
product. (Either that, or take them to a page with a link
to every single product -- bad idea -- too many choices for
the user to make.)

Luckily there is a PHP solution. Clickbank lets you add
extra stuff to the URL, which can be passed to a PHP script.
Then, this script can easy pass the user along to any page
you like.

A typical Clickbank hoplink looks like this:

http://hop.clickbank.net/?AffiliateID/SellerID

Where "AffiliateID" is the ID of a Clickbank affiliate and
"SellerID" is the ID of the seller whose product you are
promoting.

I've recently been in a situation where I was selling an
e-book, and wrote a second volume. I wanted to be able to
offer an affiliate program to the following types of
resellers:

1.) Those whose lists contained many people who already
purchased Volume 1 from them as an affiliate, and were
satisfied enough to buy Volume 2.

2.) Those who hadn't bought either e-book before, and were
willing to pay the full price for both Volumes 1 and 2.

3.) Those whose lists contained "freebie seekers" who would
be more comfortable buying only Volume 1 for starters.

This meant I needed 3 sales pages, but I wasn't comfortable
with wasting another $100 to setup two new Clickbank
accounts. I also didn't want to have to login three
different times to check all my stats. (And cash three
separate checks, and so on.)

So, I gave affiliates a link like this:

http://hop.clickbank.net/?AffiliateID/SellerID&x=volume2

That extra part at the end said, set the query string
variable called "x" to "volume2." That "volume2" can be any
value you want, by the way.

When Clickbank does the redirect to your site, they pass
along two things: the affiliate ID, and any stuff you add on
to the end of that URL.

So, if your sales page was something like:
http://www.example.com/index.php

Then Clickbank would send the user to:
http://www.example.com/index.php?hop=AffiliateID&x=volume2

See what it does? It sets "hop" to the affiliate's ID and
then says that "x" is equal to "volume2."

Here's where it gets fun. Let's create a new file in your
text editor, like Notepad (this will actually be a PHP
script). Copy and paste this in:

{{?php

$redirects = array(
"volume1" => "http://www.example.com/volume1.html",
"volume2" => "http://www.example.com/volume2.html",
"volume3" => "http://www.example.com/volume3.html",
"jv" => "http://www.example.com/special/index.html"
);

$x = $_GET["x"];

if (array_key_exists($x, $redirects)) {
$go = $redirects[$x];
header("Location:$go");
die();
}

?}}

* Don't forget to change the {{ to the less-than sign (hold
down SHIFT and press the comma key on your keyboard) and the
}} to the greater-than sign (hold down SHIFT and press the
period key on your keyboard.)

Change all those rows (volume1, volume2, etc.) and their
URLs to your own URLs. They can be anything you want and
you can have as many of them as you want. If you want more
lines just copy the lines exactly as they are, but the last
line doesn't need a comma, as you can see above.

Save this file as something like "redirect.php," and then
change the extension from the landing page of your site to a
PHP extension. For example if your landing page is
"http://www.example.com/index.html", it has to be changed to
"http://www.example.com/index.php." Change the URL in your
Clickbank preferences if it needs to be updated to reflect
this change.

Almost done. Now in your newly renamed landing page, add in
this code:

{{?php include("redirect.php"); ?}}

MAKE SURE that line is at the very very start of that page.
You can't have anything before it, not even a carriage
return or a space. If you put that line of code anywhere
than the top of your HTML document the redirect just won't
work.

* Don't forget to change the {{ to the less-than sign (hold
down SHIFT and press the comma key on your keyboard) and the
}} to the greater-than sign (hold down SHIFT and press the
period key on your keyboard.)

And there you have it. If that special code is added to the
end, for volume3 or even the "jv" section, the user will be
properly redirected. Or if no special code is entered at
all (just a regular Clickbank hoplink) the landing page will
just be shown normally without any sort of redirect.

You can now have more flexibility when giving out special
offers. You can't give JV partners a bigger commission
(you'd need another Clickbank account for that), but you
can:

- Offer a bunch of bonuses for JV partners.
- Have a different product link on that page where people
can buy for a reduced price.
- Have a different product link where buyers are sent to a
special signup form that shares their e-mail address with
the referrer.

Now you can promote multiple products through Clickbank
without multiple accounts, and without needlessly paying for
a costly script that does very little.

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