Web Browser Statistics
The image above (from Wikipedia) shows the current state of usage for the most popular internet browsers. As you can see, Internet Explorer is still the main contender, with Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari (Macs mostly) chasing it.
What’s The Problem?
As an internet market promoting affiliate products, your customers will be using one of these browser and you won’t know which one (at least, for the most part that is). So, you have to make sure that your Clickbank affiliate hoplinks are working. If you simply create a hoplink and use the encoded URL directly, you won’t have a problem, and the link will look something like this:
http://f3d710yiijokbyecjct8jv0r9k.hop.clickbank.net/
If, however, you use the ‘resolved’ hoplink (which is what you see appear in the browser’s address bar) you WILL ONLY GET PAID if your customer is using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox! A resolved hoplink looks like this:
http://www.truthaboutabs.com/ab/?hop=YOURNICKNAME
Differences
Because each browsers compiles the information from each website in a slightly different manner, some information is NOT included when the browser renders the html into something that humans can read.
For example, if your potential customer uses Internet Explorer or Safari, your affiliate information will NOT be read, and you will NOT get paid. As Internet Explorer still constitutes over half of internet users, you are potentially losing more than HALF of your clickbank affiliate revenue.
Conclusion
DON’T use the resolved hoplink, ONLY use the coded hoplink directly from Clickbank!
Luke.
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