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If you are an existing ClickBank vendor, you must realize that you can define more than one products in your account. The problem is, ClickBank only allows one Hoplink Target URL. If you want to showcase your products like a shopping cart, then that’s fine. But if you want each product to have its own website and sales letter, then you may have a problem.

Fortunately, there’s a way to work around that. By informing your affiliates to add extra data in their hoplink, you can redirect visitors to the right product pages.

Let me elaborate. When you put extra information at the back of your hoplink, ClickBank will also send that information back to your site.

Let me give you an example. When you use the hoplink like

ClickBank will redirect your visitors to

Normally you do nothing with those extra data. But using server side programming like PHP, you can extract those data and use them back. In this case, you can use them to redirect visitors to your product sales page.

What you need to do is create a PHP file and use that as your Hoplink Target URL. If you defined your Hoplink Target URL as http://product-one.com, then you can create an index.php and put it in the root folder.

Here’s an example of the index.php.

Just a little note, because we set the Hoplink Target URL as http://product-one.com, which will call the index.php by default, we need to create another page for the sales letter page. In the example above, you see that I use welcome.php. If we don’t you can imagine visitors will be in a never ending redirect loop.

And also don’t forget, in your CB Account, you have to define the prices and thank you page for your products. Pay attention to the Item number of the left. You need to know what number your products are to create the correct pay link.

Let say that you created your second product called “Blogging Secrets”. You went inside your CB account, defined that product, set the price to $47 and assigned a thank you page. Because this is the second product, the item number will be “2″. On your sales page, where you redirect visitors to using the PHP code, you need to use the following paylink.

Just replace [item-number] with the right item number. In this case, it’s 2, so your paylink will be…

When visitors click on that link, they will be redirected to ClickBank’s order page. You can also add some details to be shown on ClickBank’s order page by adding something like this to your paylink:

As an affiliate, I don’t like websites that links to the affiliate page from the main site. It’ll attract unethical affiliates who will be buying from their own links. So when I am the merchant, I only tell customers about my affiliate page.

That is also the reason why I cloak my paylink, and why I use “?detail” in my paylink. When you use the “?detail” feature in your paylink, customers don’t know what your CB ID is and that will help avoid commission stealing from your real affiliates.

The next step is about informing affiliates to use the right affiliate link. I suggest you create an affiliate page for each of your products. And then, you let them know about the right link to use.

If you created, for example, BloggingSecrets.com, which is selling your second product in CB, you may want to add a page for affiliates. That could be something like BloggingSecrets.com/affiliates.php or something. And on that page, your educate your readers about how to link to you website.

If this is your second product, you need to tell your affiliates to use a link like:

By the way, as a shameless plug, I explain all these in more detail in video at my CBTrickVideos.com…

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