What if you woke up one morning to find your worst marketing nightmare came true?
Here is what usually happens: You launch a new product on ClickBank and you notify your mailing list or promote it through paid ads. Then you wake up the next morning to find you are flooded with complaints about spam. What happened?
A crooked affiliate spammed thousands, nay, millions of people with their affiliate link which goes to your site.
For every sale that is generated, which this criminal spammer makes money from, you receive hundreds of nasty emails.
Now what do you do? This crook has made you look like the spammer and they are secretly profiting from every dishonestly obtained sale. Your webhosting account is in danger of being disabled. Your ClickBank account is in danger of being disabled and you may lose the money you have made plus you could even face legal problems. You don't want to move away from ClickBank because their payment processing system, though archaic, is very popular, easy to use, and they have one of the biggest affiliate networks on the web. Leaving is not a good solution.
Previously there was little you could do other than hope ClickBank did not disable your account completely before the whole thing died down and hope your ISP or hosting service did not shut down your account as well as all of your other domains.
A single dishonest affiliate can ruin your business like this.
How can you protect yourself from these spam sending criminals? A simple change to how you use your ClickBank account can crush them before they get started.
Now imagine this brighter scenario. You wake up one morning and find 30 sales. You are feeling good. Now you check your email and find 200 spam complaints and more coming in every few seconds. One of the email complaints quoted the email they think you sent. You see it is an affiliate email and they are using a redirection URL to hide who they are. They cannot hide from you. You click through to see the affiliate name on the order page for this mystery affiliate. Now you add this affiliate to your special security script and redirect all of his traffic to Google.
No more spam complaints because none of this spammer's messages are leading back to your site. The spammer is no longer making any money either. Your normal sales and sales from all other affiliates are processed normally. You just avoided potential catastrophe.
You may be wondering what this mysterious security script I referred to is about. It is a new tool that lets you manage multiple sales pages for multiple products using a single ClickBank account plus it gives you more control over your affiliates. It is called the CB-MultiTool. There have been other buggy perl scripts that allow you to sell multiple items but never one like this. It is a simple script that you upload to your server. ClickBank has a major limitation of allowing you to only have one sales page per account, not per product. That means you must setup a new $50 account for every product that has its own sales page. The CB-MultiTool script gives you full control over redirection. You are no longer limited to one sales page on ClickBank and you no longer have to pay $50 if you want to use a new sales page for your affiliates. You can have as many as you want, even multiple pages per product.
This special script is called the CB-MultiTool and it gives you control over affiliates and lets you banish bad affiliates by taking away their commissions or sending their traffic to a different page. Send spam traffic to an apology page or any site you want. No more complaints because they never see your site. Redirect the spam affiliate traffic through your own affiliate link so you receive the commissions and not the spammer. You can use the same feature to send your Super Affiliates to special pages which offer bonuses or that are customized for those customers.
Finally, you can protect yourself from bad affiliates and get back to making money on ClickBank.
