How to create a hoplinkwhat's a hoplink What's a Hoplink? In order for you to make money blogging your customers need to purchase the affiliate product you are offering. They do this by following the hoplink that you provide them. What a hoplink does is take the customer to the merchants sales page where the sale is made. You will then be credited with that sale once the transaction is completed. Your Click bank hoplink should look like this: You should set up your hoplinks so that they are targeted to the top level of the current window (Clickbank recommendations below) http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net <a href="http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net" Here's how to make it work...
What if you want to have the hoplink open in a new window?: You need to insert a command to have the link open in a new window (in bold). This is advisable because you are going to want your visitors to stay on your site!! while having your affiliate product links opening in a new window. href="http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank" There's been loads of talk in the industry about link theft. If you are afraid of having your links hijacked by some idiot who can't appreciate all the work you have done to present them with a solution to their problem then you are going to want to Cloak your hoplink: HopLink Cloaker HTML:<html> HopLink Cloaker PHP Script: <?php Most affiliate programs will provide you with promotional tools. Things such as horizontal banners or vertical banners or text links. Things like this to help you promote you their products. Some affiliate programs don't so you will have to create your own banners or just place a text link to that product.
The above is a banner from Derek Gels internet marketing center The banner code looks like this: <a href="http://www.marketingtips.com/trafficsecrets/t/869401"> Red text: is the hoplink Blue text: is the location of the image on his server. Purple: is the Alt text. If you weren't provided a banner with a hoplink code inserted in it and you had to make your own here is the code you'll here's how to add the hoplink that banner for your blog or website. <a href="TARGET URL"> <img src="IMAGE URL" It might look something like this when all completed ( this is mine from this site yours may vary) <a href="TARGET URL (affiliate product hoplink">
If your affiliate Merchant doesn't provide you with any tools to promote their product it's very easy to create your banner with a hoplink in it. Just follow the above format and you'll be in business very quick! SO there you have it the quick and easy way for you to set up an affiliate program or affiliate product on your blog using click bank.
A cool Html Trick that works on your webpages to cloak your affiliate Hoplinks:
Now you need to get these on your blog!! Look in your blog template for this code: </h1> Insert horizontal banner here Find this code: <!-- Begin #profile-container --> Insert Vertical banner here This is the location below your profile on your blog. You could always delete the profile I would'nt recommend this but that's up to you. This also a good place to place Rss feed icons or adsense banners. Using text links on your blog? Look for this code in your blog: <h2 class="sidebar-title">Affiliate Marketing products</h2> If you want to include an affiliate product, affiliate program or text link in a post. You'll have to compose your post select where you want to place that banner and use the edit HTML tab to insert it. For inserting a text link, you can do the same but I prefer to do it in the compose mode and click on the add link icon. then insert the affiliate product hoplink in the little pop up box.
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