Clickbank is developing new upsell features for their merchants and they are looking for feedback. If you sell on Clickbank or you promote products through them, take the opportunity to tell them what you think. You can check out more details on Clickbanks Blog.
Clickbank announced on their blog that they are looking for pilot participants in a new reporting feature. This feature will allow you to track sucessful orders using Google Analytics, Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. It will be a nice improvement to what they currently offer if they can take it live. You can apply to be one of their testers by clicking here
ClickBank announced yesterday the launch of their new design. According to ClickBank, the functionality remains the same but they are trying to make improvements where they can and one of those improvements is a better design and an easier to understand layout. Personally, I really like the new design, I think they could still stand to make improvements and still make some things easier but I think this new design is a step in the right direction.
If you read my review a few weeks ago, I like and I use ClickBank but as I mentioned there are a lot of problems with the software they use and the network in general. One of the things I hate about ClickBank is the search feature for finding items and offers. One of the items I bought over a year ago through Click Bank was Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook. I wrote a review of the book recently and I went into ClickBank to grab a link to promote it. The item is called Super Affiliate Handbook. I did a search for that exact phrase in ClickBanks Marketplace. You would think it would come up as #1 but it wasn’t even on the first page. I had to browse to page 10 to find the item. That’s pretty bad.
It’s been that way for a long time. For a company that makes it’s money from consumers finding products and affiliates finding products to promote, you would think that search would be a top priority for them. Especially since they don’t offer a good way to just browse through the categories. Why make it hard for me to hunt for the product in order to get the link to promote it?
In my review of ClickBank a week or so ago, one of my complaints was that they really don’t offer much in the terms of links or creatives to promote the products and programs that are offered. That is still a big weak point but they have made some improvements in this area over the last month or two. Last month they announced the addition of a brand new Hop Ad Builder that allows you to create a block of rotating text ads, similar to the Google AdSense format.
It’s certainly an improvement over what they offered before (which was next to nothing) but it’s not great. You can’t specify a list of offers you want rotated in the mix, you can only provide keywords that you want it to use to find and rotate offers. If you remember, one of my other complaints with Clickbank is that they have a lot of crap offers and you will only hurt your reputation if you are reviewing and pushing items that have little value. I don’t like that I don’t have a lot of control over what ads will be rotated through using the hoAdBuilder. I am testing it out on the Blog so I can see what offers are passed through and what kind of interest my readers will have in it but I will likely remove it after my 3o day test. You can check out the details at ClickBank Hop Builde
More recently, someone created a Wordpress Plugin that allows you to quickly utilize the new ClickBank feature. It’s called the Hod Ad Plugin. It works pretty well, allows you to create the hop ads right inside wordpress and then create a widget to place it on your blog. Check it out by clicking here
