There are good publishers like Norb at Nichechoppers who help and assist affiliates, offer a good share of the pie (normally 60-75%), have great affiliate materials and offer review copies for free.
Then there are bad ones who don’t and even worse they try to rip affiliates off, steal commission, reduce the % share compete with affiliates on PPC etc. One actually took down his sales page and replaced it with an opt-in page, basically gathering email addresses so that he could email the buyer and redirect to another sales page with no commission to the affiliate. There were many affiliates still paying for traffic to that site long after the publisher made this change. This is scandalous.
The most recent site which I have been promoting that has been taken down with no notice is Silicon Forex. I was promoting this product on many sites, I also own www.siliconforex.co.uk and had it re-directed to the sales page. I was promoting via PPC, but had stopped that since Clickbank has been having problems.
I was carrying out a routine check of my links when I found that the Silicon Forex site was not responding, it is possible that this could happen for a short time, but I checked back later to find it still down. I then emailed support and the another email address I had for the site, both were returned failed. Finally I emailed Clickbank to advise them and to my surprise I got a response saying that they would remove from the marketplace, “thanks for letting them know” this is a major problem for CB, they have no idea what their publishers are doing.
Anyway, make sure you check your hoplinks and also the sales page to make sure all is working. You will still see hops in CB, but they may not actually go anywhere. I have now replaced all my Silicon Forex links to Forex Detector, another NC product which I know won’t let me down.
James
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