The Honest Way

To date, there has still been no word from Clickbank regarding the problem of lost affiliate commissions due to their tracking cookies being blocked by anti-spyware programs running on people’s PC’s.

That means that the problem hasn’t gone away, despite a lot less noise being made about it by affiliate marketers. Maybe some of them are still making so many sales that it doesn’t affect them, but for the average affiliate marketer (like me) it makes a big difference. I know so, because I see my site stats every day and can see that I’m sending x-amount of visitors to the sales pages of products that I promote and I am not seeing the number of sales that those numbers should be converting into.

It’s not just products from Clickbank, either. Products I promote from several different affiliate sources have all continued to underperform so it’s a problem that really needs to be worked out. I get the impression that the affiliate companies themselves are not doing all they can to resolve this by finding a more reliable method of tracking affiliate links when cookies are clearly outdated and failing the affiliate marketers.

If only there were a really clever developer out there that could come up with the solution - imagine the size of the crowd (open cheque-books in hand) beating a path to that person’s door!

In the meantime, we will all just have to promote harder and work off reduced conversion rates to make money at this game. Fun, fun, fun!

One note of good news - for me anyway - and that’s this blog’s Alexa rank has gone up to 116,648.

That’s pretty good going and thanks to all of you for visiting here and reading my ramblings! I’ll keep my end of the bargain by continuing to post interesting and (I like to think) very readable posts. If you have any comments, please feel free to leave them for me. I do respond to them all!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY