Clickbank Affiliate Link Code

Clickbank is one of the larger online clearing houses for affiliate programs. In this article, we take a look at the Clickbank affiliate link code you receive when promoting programs.

To grasp this subject, we need to first discuss a basic issue. How, exactly, do sites track traffic and know which affiliate to credit with the commission for a particular sale? They do this by assigning you an identification code. Some use letters, some use numbers and some combine them. Regardless, you end up with something like 12make34bigcash56. You will forever be known as this by the company in question. To get credit, the company will provide you with a link. You paste your identification number into it where indicated and any sales coming from that traffic is credited to you.


Running an affiliate program is a real pain in the derriere. Affiliates have lots of questions and you really need a couple people working full time to handle it. Given this, a few companies have created a great service. They will run your affiliate program for you or at least make it easier to deal with. They do this by providing the software needed and they also handle the transactions. On top of this, they handle hundreds of affiliate programs so affiliates know they can just sign up and get access to a bunch of different programs. All and all, it is a pretty good deal.

Clickbank is one of these affiliate program management companies. It runs hundreds and perhaps thousands of programs. When you sign up, you pick a user name to log in to your account. Be careful. This is also the affiliate id that is assigned to you. When you are ready to get going, you go to the marketplace section of the site and look for programs that will meet your desire. Once you pick on, you will see a “promote” button with the program. You just click that and a pop up should appear.



The new screen will have a space for your user id. Put it in and click enter. A new screen should appear. It will contain two link code options for you. One is a naked link you can use behind any text or image you like. The second is a piece of code that highlights a “Click Here!” message. Both sets of code are encrypted to the extent that they don't show your account nickname. Why? You wouldn't want someone to try to swipe it and log in to your account or replace it and try to claim commissions off your traffic.

That's it. You just take the generated Clickbank affiliate link code and use it on your site and in marketing pieces.

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