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Time for the Clickbank Account Merry-Go-Round Again

admin — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:03:39 +0000

Unfortunately my latest account which i have had for about six weeks, since 27th March, has run dry.

Same consistent number of targetted hops, like clockwork, but sales dried up and many of the people on DigitalPoint and Nichechoppers have also been hit this week. Check out the stats for the last three periods.

12th May to 17th May

433 hops, 1 sale = $82

6th May to 11th May

488 hops, 7 sales = $383

30th April to 5th May

484 hops, 6 sales = $368

Overall stats for the last 6 weeks are:

Sales: 45

Refund %: 17.78%

Net Income: $2057.46

Anyway, time to change all the hops again as I believe this account has been blackballed by Clickbank due to the refunds, like previous accounts. Onwards and upwards hopefully.

Update on Switching Clickbank Accounts

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:35:47 +0000

I recently wrote about a theory that certain Clickbank Accounts are “blacklisted” and possibly have a more strict anti-fraud process here Sales on Clickbank slow? switch accounts

After a significant drop in Forex sales I had nothing to lose by trying this out. The results are clear, I have made nearly $600 in less than three weeks. That is nothing like I was making last year, but it is much better than the previous three weeks!

I have moved most of my hoplinks to the new account and while there is no way of proving I wouldn’t have made those sales on the old account, I am happy to go with it and will move the majority of the other hops there too. I have now met the Clickbank Customer Distribution Requirement and look forward to receiving a check in the post soon.

Customer Distribution Requirement

ClickBank accounts cannot be used for the sole purpose of collecting rebates or otherwise extending credit to yourself or others. In compliance with US law, ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until the following criteria is met:

Sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers and

Sales made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal). Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.

Other news…

I have recently been asked to review a new product “The Flipping Fool” by the publisher and now that I have received the review copy I will give it a good look over and write about it here very soon. Website flipping is something I am really getting into now, my previous experience of it has been pretty good, see previous post Domaining by Accident

James

Sales on Clickbank SLOW? – Switch accounts!

admin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:54:18 +0000

I got this idea from DigitalPoint Forums where someone said that they “rotated” their clickbank ID regularly. The poster noticed that if they switched their CBIDs to another account they owned, they instantly started making sales. It was thought that a particular account can get flagged if a lot of “high risk” credit cards are attempted on it or from certain high risk countries. Clickbank has some pretty sensitive risk management rules!

Anyway, I thought I would try this and see if it worked. The simple answer is YES!

I opened a new account (was planning to do this anyway for a new product I am developing) and then changed the CBID on one site and some of my PPC adverts. Within three days I had made two FAP Turbo sales and over $150! My old account that received twice as many hops during the same time made one $33 sale!

I am going to make some changes to other sites to make changing account ID easier and then rotate them. This could be a regular thing for me if it works, the only problem being that you have to meet the initial criteria of 5 sales and different credit cards etc each new account and get paper checks to start with, but on current progress that shouldn’t be an issue.

Keep trucking. JZ