any bodies cb sales down this 2 week?

[ProudPakistani]

yes i making 120$ every days usually no problems since past 2 months but this 2 week last and this week my sale drop to only 1 sale per days - $34. it weird cos past 2 month it was constanting and now it drop..... season changing???? anyone same as me?????

 

[uplovely]

Same here!

 

[weixinmingde]

same here, very very bad past 2 months, I will give up CB...

 

[awesomewebsites]

same here, very very bad past 2 months, I will give up CB...

I will be happy to take your account when you throw it away.

This may be the reason :https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/sales-in-india-blocked.1028128

 

[ProudPakistani]

I will be happy to take your account when you throw it away.

This may be the reason :https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/sales-in-india-blocked.1028128

that definitately not the answer..... because ban has been on for many week and also seldom get sales from INDIA or Philippines. Even if they buying they serial refunders (that why clickbank ban them from buying becos of serial refunders and fraud charge backs)
i think it may just be seasons.... maybe becos mother day that why sale dropping???
or maybes just not good period for digital sale periods again hahas

 

[dlyhai]

Same here

 

[devo11420]

Yes, very bad for me this last two weeks. Prior to that I was doing quite well and started scaling, now I'm doing worse than before. Hopefully sales start getting back to normal.

I heard a rumor about a change to Facebook page "gravity" and more emphasis being put towards groups. I can see that my page reach is down significantly and this is affecting sales for one product I was doing quite well with before. Also page content especially from business pages is being removed from users newsfeed and being replaced with personalized content.

If you rely heavily on Facebook business pages, then this could be affecting you as well.

https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/01/12/facebook-news-feed-changes

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/307414

 

[Designer1]

Clickbank is shaving more than usual these days. I've been getting a record high number of hops, for days, and the shittiest EPH.
Also I'm getting always more messages from customers saying they bought my products and want to know more, but no sales in their zone.
What these assholes don't understand is that it is impossible for us to do a split test or to gain any significant info to improve the sales if they keep shaving this way.
In the long run they are lose more money than they are stealing.

 

[mancar487]

Yes, very bad for me this last two weeks. Prior to that I was doing quite well and started scaling, now I'm doing worse than before. Hopefully sales start getting back to normal.

I heard a rumor about a change to Facebook page "gravity" and more emphasis being put towards groups. I can see that my page reach is down significantly and this is affecting sales for one product I was doing quite well with before. Also page content especially from business pages is being removed from users newsfeed and being replaced with personalized content.

If you rely heavily on Facebook business pages, then this could be affecting you as well.

https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/01/12/facebook-news-feed-changes

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/307414

I can confirm affiliates who were driving mainly fb traffic have taken a hit with these changes, some seeing as much as 80% drop in sales owing to this... I think we'll see lots of marketers moving their focus away from fb in the coming weeks, which would bring fb CPCs down dramatically...ironically making fb profitable again for marketers who choose to stay...

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

I can confirm affiliates who were driving mainly fb traffic have taken a hit with these changes, some seeing as much as 80% drop in sales owing to this... I think we'll see lots of marketers moving their focus away from fb in the coming weeks, which would bring fb CPCs down dramatically...ironically making fb profitable again for marketers who choose to stay...

People have been having success with FB and CB?

 

[mancar487]

People have been having success with FB and CB?

Yes - if done right. I had written about it here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/g...or-1-000-daily-campaigns.835882/#post-8818691

 

[stilnewbie]

I have't got any sale for 8 consecutive days, I have never experienced such a long-lasting period that no sales generated, I have a presentiment that the bad situation will continue, the poor record will soon be broken again. But my traffic does not decrease significantly. I think it is still normal for me. I get frustrated and confused about what should I go on the affiliate journey with Clickbank. I have no mood to work in this field now.

To be honest, (I got $1000+ last month, but this month I just got 100+ pitiful dollars), I am a full-time affiliate marketer that have depended on Clickbank for 5 years. Although I have experienced a sharp and ridiculous decline of commissions in the recent 2 years (too many products that are thought to be in a green niche have been removed from Clickbank and the steady traffic to them becomes a waste, some vendors unexpectedly used the blacklist trick to suspend the promotion of ordinary affiliates, some vendors deliberately replaced affiliate links with their own links, hot selling products gradually became amazingly cold), I have accepted it and lived on that small income. But now, I think it is time to say goodbye to CB, at least, it is impossible to go on the full-time affiliate marketing with CB.

Sorry, I rambled on too much; I should stop; now I have to submit resumes to try to get a humble job in society.

 

[uplovely]

I have't got any sale for 8 consecutive days, I have never experienced such a long-lasting period that no sales generated, I have a presentiment that the bad situation will continue, the poor record will soon be broken again. But my traffic does not decrease significantly. I think it is still normal for me. I get frustrated and confused about what should I go on the affiliate journey with Clickbank. I have no mood to work in this field now.

To be honest, (I got $1000+ last month, but this month I just got 100+ pitiful dollars), I am a full-time affiliate marketer that have depended on Clickbank for 5 years. Although I have experienced a sharp and ridiculous decline of commissions in the recent 2 years (too many products that are thought to be in a green niche have been removed from Clickbank and the steady traffic to them becomes a waste, some vendors unexpectedly used the blacklist trick to suspend the promotion of ordinary affiliates, some vendors deliberately replaced affiliate links with their own links, hot selling products gradually became amazingly cold), I have accepted it and lived on that small income. But now, I think it is time to say goodbye to CB, at least, it is impossible to go on the full-time affiliate marketing with CB.

Sorry, I rambled on too much; I should stop; now I have to submit resumes to try to get a humble job in society.

Many way to make money if you have traffic! do'nt only focus on CB!

 

[Designer1]

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some vendors unexpectedly used the blacklist trick to suspend the promotion of ordinary affiliates, some vendors deliberately replaced affiliate links with their own links
...

Same situation here. Almost 10 days and 0 sales. What really pisses me off is that I keep getting the same amount of messages from customers asking me questions about the product they JUST BOUGHT FROM ME!
Unbelievable.
And people here are still saying that clickbank doesn't shave.


By the way, I've never heard about vendors blacklisting affiliates, can you give me some info? Any way to tell if you're being blacklisted?

 

[ProudPakistani]

ok sale return back to normal 2 day ago....... make more sale too $200 /day..... then today back to 1 sale again. hahas

Same situation here. Almost 10 days and 0 sales. What really pisses me off is that I keep getting the same amount of messages from customers asking me questions about the product they JUST BOUGHT FROM ME!
Unbelievable.
And people here are still saying that clickbank doesn't shave.


By the way, I've never heard about vendors blacklisting affiliates, can you give me some info? Any way to tell if you're being blacklisted?

yes friendthey can blacklist..... you have to create aff link of suspected vendor then visit aff link..... if you okay you will land on vendor salepage no problem but also go to checkout to make sure your id is below at checkoutpage. if you got blacklist you will see this message

 

[stilnewbie]

Same situation here. Almost 10 days and 0 sales. What really pisses me off is that I keep getting the same amount of messages from customers asking me questions about the product they JUST BOUGHT FROM ME!
Unbelievable.
And people here are still saying that clickbank doesn't shave.


By the way, I've never heard about vendors blacklisting affiliates, can you give me some info? Any way to tell if you're being blacklisted?

There is no good way, what you can do is to regularly test affiliate links of those products that you usually deliver traffic to; I also discovered such a case by chance. Here gives some examples; initially, the program "the online dog trainer" (theonlinedogtrainer dot com) allows everyone to promote its program, but now if you search it in the Clickbank marketplace and try to generate the hop link of this program, the windows will remind you of the words "This vendor requires affiliates to be pre-approved before being eligible to earn commissions promoting their product(s)..."; this product was a popular product with 100+ gravity (surely, it seems still hot according to its current gravity), but for a lot of affiliates who promoted their products, their old links may be inactive and be redirected to the link” ssl.clickbank.net/order/restricted.html?errCode=nowhitelist...”, if you want to promote or make your old affiliate links work again, you have to log into its affiliate page to apply for approval, but it seems that you could not get immediate approval; another similar example, you may check the product “EA builder”, but unlike the former product, your old affiliate link can be re-activated instantly as long as you fill out the form in its affiliate page. Moreover, you may check the product “Back To Life”(erasemybackpain dot com) , the affiliate page (erasemybackpain dot com/affiliates) clearly tells you “Due to some recent fraudulent ads, we are currently only accepting new affiliates who we know personally or who have been introduced and recommended by a personal connection.”

ok sale return back to normal 2 day ago....... make more sale too $200 /day..... then today back to 1 sale again. hahas
yes friendthey can blacklist..... you have to create aff link of suspected vendor then visit aff link..... if you okay you will land on vendor salepage no problem

Congratulation, but I checked the dashboard again and again, my sales still stay in 0, I am promoting several good quality products at the same time, It is rare to see that totally no sales are generated in 9 consecutive days. I think I will quit the game soon. However, there are always a number of affiliates that can keep good performance in the network. So, cheer up. Don't care a quitter's negative comments

Many way to make money if you have traffic! do'nt only focus on CB!

yeah, but what if the targeted traffic is just for specific Clickbank products and meanwhile they are removed permanently online (they do not include some products have moved to other networks, such as jvzoo, click2sell, and software projects; if so, replacing the links is also OK), conversion becomes a tough task.

 

[Esiyow]

I have't got any sale for 8 consecutive days, I have never experienced such a long-lasting period that no sales generated, I have a presentiment that the bad situation will continue, the poor record will soon be broken again. But my traffic does not decrease significantly. I think it is still normal for me. I get frustrated and confused about what should I go on the affiliate journey with Clickbank. I have no mood to work in this field now.

To be honest, (I got $1000+ last month, but this month I just got 100+ pitiful dollars), I am a full-time affiliate marketer that have depended on Clickbank for 5 years. Although I have experienced a sharp and ridiculous decline of commissions in the recent 2 years (too many products that are thought to be in a green niche have been removed from Clickbank and the steady traffic to them becomes a waste, some vendors unexpectedly used the blacklist trick to suspend the promotion of ordinary affiliates, some vendors deliberately replaced affiliate links with their own links, hot selling products gradually became amazingly cold), I have accepted it and lived on that small income. But now, I think it is time to say goodbye to CB, at least, it is impossible to go on the full-time affiliate marketing with CB.

Sorry, I rambled on too much; I should stop; now I have to submit resumes to try to get a humble job in society.

If you don't mind to explain, why you so angry? Are you using paid ads to drive traffic so you feel you burned a lot of money for nothing?

Can't believe clickbank did something like this. Story from @Designer1 looks real. I start to believe clickbank really shaved commissions

 

[Deleted member 657006]

it so sad becouse cb continue to fail the im world .....

everytime there a post on skimming it cb name , i dont think so many ppl can be wrong .

and another thing these messages of sales but no sales shown up as a sale on the dash , must be proving the shaving.

click bank getting so meny im to quit unreal.

the best part is there excuse

you did not add the correct link (( all we ever here ,,,,

click bank needs to sort there link structure out properly once and forall getting stupid impractical and depressing .

 

[stilnewbie]

If you don't mind to explain, why you so angry? Are you using paid ads to drive traffic so you feel you burned a lot of money for nothing?

Can't believe clickbank did something like this. Story from @Designer1 looks real. I start to believe clickbank really shaved commissions

I don't get angry, don't mistake. I am just a little depressed. However, it doesn't matter, you see a lot of people have already given up CB early, anytime, affiliate marketing is based on the principle of the survival of the fittest. I can't put all the blame on the network, you see there are always some successful affiliate marketers in Clickbank, I think I should have my own reason too. In addition, some good posts in this forum has already told you that you should learn to identify whether a vendor respects his/her affiliates before joining the affiliate program

Don't focus on my emotion, just pay attention to the information that may help you. Whoever wants to make more money, working hard with less complaints is a must.

 

[mancar487]

Same situation here. Almost 10 days and 0 sales. What really pisses me off is that I keep getting the same amount of messages from customers asking me questions about the product they JUST BOUGHT FROM ME!
Unbelievable.
And people here are still saying that clickbank doesn't shave.


By the way, I've never heard about vendors blacklisting affiliates, can you give me some info? Any way to tell if you're being blacklisted?

I am 100% sure that if you are getting cheated, it is from the vendor, not clickbank.
What you need to do is to ask these customers for their clickbank receipt number, then 1) contact the vendor and confront him about it and (2) report this to clickbank support.
If the vendor says that the receipt number is not in their database, then clickbank will be able to verify for you if the purchase really got through or not.

These posts really get me frustrated because they throw a bad light on clickbank and all vendors in general, when there are vendors like me who really go out of my way to help affiliates.

Whenever affiliates investigated this in the past, the vendor was ALWAYS to blame, not clickbank...case in point profitedge, who at the time owned about 10 top clickbank products. They got axed by clickbank when affiliates reported what was happening.

So please investigate as above, and then NAME AND SHAME the vendor.

Mancar