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When I made my first sale from Clickbank, they would email notifications of sales. In fact, at that time, I would have never known I made a sale for a month or so if it wasn’t for that email notification. I was trying everything just to see what would stick. I got my first email from Clickbank that I had made a sale and I was hooked.

But eventually Clickbank stopped sending out these emails to affiliates. And I can understand why. Sales took off and sending out two emails for every sale can really put a load on a server.

I recently figured I should just monetize everything I can. So I signed up for Kontera and Chitika and thought I would give them a shot. And since I am using WordPress, I figured there would be plugins, which there was. I installed them and all was fine, until I went to comment on a CommentLuv blog and it said there was an error with my feed.

So I check the feed with a validator and sure enough, the feed is bad. And the feed was bad because of Chitika’s script tags.

I originally wrote a similar post on my other blog. This is the new, improved version of that Clickbank XML file transformation. That one missed all the subcategories. This one gets them, but throws all the new product into one new category. If anyone has time to fix that, I will post your fix here.

This is going to be a short and sweet post. I finally wrote a XSL stylesheet that transforms all the data from the Clickbank XML datafeed file into CSV. CSV is format more easily editable and importable for the not so tech inclined person. XSL stylesheets are generally used to turn XML into HTML pages. So here are the steps.

Shiny objects.

Always with the shiny objects.

You read an article about building a niche blog and you start. It takes work. But you are moving forward. You have yet to make a sale, but your traffic is picking up. You are getting into it.

Then you happen upon an ebook about bum marketing. Well, you are started on the right direction. Let’s just try this instead and put the other one on hold. But of course, this is also a lot of work.

Yesterday, in the middle of the day, I logged into Clickbank and was freaked out at first. Everything was red instead of blue. I double checked the domain, just in case I happened to type in the wrong url and had just entered my login details into a phishing site. Nope, the url was correct.

So it seems that Clickbank changed colors a bit but that is not all. Now you can build and encoded affiliate url using Hoplink Shield. You can also paste and encoded url in and get it decoded. The point is to stop commission loss my masking your affiliate link.