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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.

Over the last year or so, I’ve experimented with a plugin that imports the Clickbank marketplace into another table in Wordpress and adds related products to the posts. You can see the result of that work at the bottom of this post. The problem was that I finished to a point that would be functional for me but no for the average Wordpress user. So, as of yet, it hasn’t made it to a release version yet.

If you have browsed throught the Clickbank marketplace you may have noticed that there are a few shady products in there, like the download sites. But if you take a look at them, you see an interesting pattern.

I have dealt with Clickbank as an affiliate a long time now. And for a few months, I have been making posts over at a new site, Clickbunk.com. The only posts I make there currently are announcements of new products at Clickbank. And day after day, I have been browsing the products as they come up, watching for patterns, watching for something that may be a new hot product.

From Clickbank:

ClickBank is excited to announce the ClickBank HopAds Builder, a powerful new way for affiliates to promote ClickBank products. The HopAds Builder allows affiliates who own Web sites or blogs to easily create fully customizable ad boxes. This tool allows affiliates to customize both the look and content of ads to match their site.

The HopAds Builder is entirely free to use, and HopAds pay out the same affiliate commissions as Hoplinks created through the Marketplace. HopAds use ad text created by ClickBank publishers to appeal directly to consumers, and all ads are screened by ClickBank for content and quality. To start creating HopAds to display on your site, click here.