How to Sell Multiple Products via one ClickBank account with a simple script By Tim Ong
Everyone knows ClickBank is a fantastic business model. Over the years, its' reputation has been enhanced by the fact that it has been able to pay out to its merchants every two weeks without fail. Always on time. ClickBank allows its merchants to sell only digital products. With a single account, you can in theory sell up to 50 products. Unfortunately, in practice it is not this simple.
The problem with ClickBank is that it allows you to send your potential customers to only one landing page, i.e. only one URL. This is not a problem if you are willing to put all your product links in this one landing page but successful internet marketers know that this will severely hamper your effort to close a sale. The idea is to get your customers straight to your sales page, where you get to pitch your sales to them. With too many links and choices in one page, you can very easily lose your customers' interest in your products.
For a long time, the only way around this is to purchase specific software that get around this ClickBank problem. Some of the more popular software for this purpose are Easy ClickMate and HopGuard.
But now, I have learned an easy way to send your potential customers to any URL you choose simply by adding a php script to your website. I got the inspiration and the core script from an article by Robert Plank. Below is Robert's script.
<?php
$redirects = array(
"volume1" => "http://www.example.com/volume1.html",
"volume2" => "http://www.example.com/volume2.html",
"volume3" => "http://www.example.com/volume3.html",
"jv" => "http://www.example.com/special/index.html"
);
$x = $_GET["x"];
if (array_key_exists($x, $redirects)) {
$go = $redirects[$x];
header("Location:$go");
die();
}
?>
To make this script even easier to use, I added this to the script above:
header("Location: http://www.example.com/mainlandingpage.html");
This additional line will make http://www.example.com/mainlandingpage.html the default landing page.
Now the entire script looks like this:
<?php
$redirects = array(
"volume1" => "http://www.example.com/volume1.html",
"volume2" => "http://www.example.com/volume2.html",
"volume3" => "http://www.example.com/volume3.html",
"jv" => "http://www.example.com/special/index.html"
);
$x = $_GET["x"];
if (array_key_exists($x, $redirects)) {
$go = $redirects[$x];
header("Location:$go");
die();
}
header("Location: http://www.example.com/mainlandingpage.html");
?>
Now, use this complete script (in blue) to create a php file called redirect.php and save it in your website. This is the only addition you need for you to be able to re-direct your site visitors to the appropriate URLs.
There is just one more thing you need to do. Log in to your ClickBank account and change your target URL for your landing page to:
http://www.example.com/redirect.php
and save it. Now you are done!
Now to send your customer to a page other than your original landing page, you will use ClickBank's original hop link, with a little addition at it's end.
http://affiliateID.vendorID.hop.clickbank.net?x=CODE
For example, if you want to send your visitor to http://www.example.com/volume1.html, then replace CODE with volume1, like so:
http://affiliateID.vendorID.hop.clickbank.net?x=volume1
That's it! You're done!
P.S. You can use any word or number in place of the CODE. Remember to change all the URLs in the script to the corresponding URLs on your website, including the URL to the landing page.
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