Opening a Clickbank Account

Written By Chouhab on jeudi 29 janvier 2009 | 08:57

By Graham McKenzie

After choosing Clickbank for your business, you need to register. Although the registration procedure for both is the same, you should ideally know before registering whether you are going to operate as an affiliate or as a seller. As an affiliate you can set up an account whenever you like and leave it open for when you have a product to sell. If you are going to be a seller it makes more sense to leave registration until you are ready to start selling, for reasons discussed later.

Start by going to www.clickbank.com and click signup on the right side. Notice how you will automatically be moved to the promote products section. This is done to make signing up more simple so do not be alarmed. All of the new users are redirected to this screen.

After this fill out the fields. Clickbank mails checks and needs a Tax ID after registration, so it is essential that the contact information you provide is accurate to avoid your payment being posted to the wrong address.

Once you have completed all of the necessary information it is time to choose an account nickname. Here is where being a seller or an affiliate can make a tremendous difference. When you sell a product, Clickbank uses links known as Hoplinks that redirect through Clickbank so that they can keep track of affiliates. These links are ugly. So ugly, in fact, that anyone looking at the link may think it is going to redirect them to an attack site.

As an affiliate, the account ID can be broader, though it would still be helpful if the link matched things you are selling. It simply becomes less important.As such, you need to make sure you have an account name that matches the product you are selling (because your account name is inside the Hoplink) or at least hints at it so that the link appears more legitimate.

You will be sent a password that is equally as ugly as a Hoplink and completely unchangeable. Because of this, it is very important that you write down your nickname and password, as the consequences of losing either of those can be dire. It is very hard to retrieve lost information.Once you have entered all of that data you can click submit and register.

An additional reason to record your nickname is that it's possible to create a website using an affiliate nickname, allow the website to run without interference for several years and then completely forget that nickname. This is the beauty of passive income: even if you never visit the Clickbank site, you will continue to receive checks. Unfortunately, this means it's possible to forget the ID as well, which can be a problem if you have a need to make changes in the future.

After you have entered your password, you are registered. To sell a product, click on account settings and then "my products" and then "add new product". In order to become an affiliate, you need to search for affiliate items or click on "marketplace". If you click on "create hoplink" and enter your screen name, you will get the affiliate link that you will need to sell products.

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