A Unique Way To Attract New Affiliates
Last month I told you about a way you could make money promoting my blog, and I’ve decided to take the concept a step further.
I wrote a Dog Ebook a couple of years ago about how to Make Your Own Dog Toys, it hasn’t been a big seller but it has been profitable.
Anyhow, when I originally created the product I came up with a very clever name for the domain. “TheGuidesDog.com” I figured that if one guide was successful I’d have more written.
Well, that didn’t happen so last night I decided to create a quick WordPress review blog that would showcase the Best Selling Clickbank Dog Products.
AND… I used the same system I’m using on Newbie Report to allow affiliates to promote it.
All they have to do is insert their Clickbank ID at the end of the site URL, and they’ll earn the commission on any sales they refer.
http://www.theguidesdog.com/?cb=YOURCLICKBANKID
So if you can’t attract Affiliates to your one product.. why not make a “niche” review blog to get them to promote multiple products?
And thus.. passively get them to promote YOUR product.
Also, if you have a Clickbank product, but no upsell, you can use this same code to give affiliates credit for upsell sales of other Clickbank products.
Bigger affiliates are always going to want to know what your upsell is and this enables you to have one..
Here’s how I’m doing this..
I added an iframe in the wordpress footer which loads a file called “cookie.php”
<iframe name=”I1″ src=”http://www.theguidesdog.com/cookie.php” height=”1″ width=”1″ border=”0″ frameborder=”0″>
</iframe>
This grabs the Clickbank ID from the URL field and sets a one year cookie on my domain for it.
Here’s the code for cookie.php
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<?php
if (!$_COOKIE['cookiename'] or (isset($_GET['cb'])))
{
if (isset($_GET['cb']))
$cb=$_GET['cb'];
else
$cb=’nbreport’;
setcookie(“cookiename”, $cb, time()+60*24*365,’/');
}
$cb = $_COOKIE['cookiename'];
?>
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Replace cookiename with the name of your cookie.
Replace nbreport with your clickbank ID (if no referrer it’s default)
Then I’m using a redirect for each product which grabs the cookie and inserts it into a redirect for the product.
So you just create a productname.php file and upload it to your site using this code.
<?php
$cb = $_COOKIE['cookiename'];
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
<html>
<head>
<title>Product Name</title>
<meta http-equiv=”REFRESH” content=”0;url=http://<?php echo $cb;?>.productid.hop.clickbank.net”>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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Once you do that you just link your Clickbank products to the productname.php file and it will redirect to the Clickbank link with the referrer’s id.
You can use this code for all kinds of neat ideas if you use your imagination.
Two Additional Points -
- You can also just put the above code in your header above your html if you don’t want to load an iframe.
- Make sure all your www, non-www paths are the same. In other words, choose either www, or not www it might not work right otherwise.
wow Dan, that’s the first cool thing I’ve seen
in a long time, just when I was getting jaded…
I can’t wrap my brain around it right now, but
I’ll try it out…
Does this fall under cookie stuffing?
I’m a .php dummy, lol…what do I know
Take care and thanks for the lesson…
Jeff Davis
it’s not cookie stuffing because I’m telling you what I’m doing and you get all the benefit.. If I was setting cookies for other affiliate programs for the traffic you sent without telling you.. that would be cookie stuffing.
Nice trick Dan.
Old dogs like me can learn new tricks every day.
(Sorry for the pun)
I’ll be trying this out soon.
Best,
Paul Klein
Hello,
this technic is original! I’ll try to use in the future to get more affiliates. Thank you for this amusing tip.
All the best.
Ulysse