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I need help regarding the functioning of clickbank (9)

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I am a beginner in affiliate marketing.
Can anybody help me with the working of hoplinks on clickbank marketplace and how to promote it on facebook.

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Hoplinks that are the affiliate links of clickbank. But clickbank has another statistic called "gravity." Please ensure it is at least above 40 before promoting anywhere. I am not sure Facebook groups allow affiliate links, yet you can check that out. Facebook ads also don't allow the direct use of affiliate links and you may be banned for that. There are roundabout ways like using a "bridge page", clocking, etc.
However, Pinterest and Youtube allow the direct use of affiliate links and you may use them those platforms. Please understand that different platforms have their own unique ways for the best promotions.
It's also best not to be promoting all the time with your sales. The technique that works for most social media is _ "jab, jab, jab, right hook" The jabs refer to a useful piece of information and the "right hook" refers to your promotion. So, give three jabs and then end it with a right hook!

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So a 'hop' is what they call a visit in their reporting.

You can create a 'hoplink' while on the main marketplace place by clicking the 'Promote' button. This hop will be produced in code so that the actual link is hidden and people can't see your affiliate id in it.

You can also create links by going to the actual affiliate page for a product where you will usually find the actual link (and often an easy to use generator) where you can enter your Clickbank ID into it, and have an (un-coded) hoplink. Often these affiliate pages will also provide several qualifiers you can add to the link to control what version of the offer it links to (example: the super aggressive one, the less aggressive one, the facebook-compliant one, the text-only version, etc).

In both instances (on the main marketplace page when you hit the 'promote' button and get a coded link and on the actual affiliate pages where you can get the real link) you will also see a place to add your "tid" at the end. This is a unique spot on the link for you to add anything you want. If you are promoting via Facebook you might add "FB" in it. Or perhaps you are running several versions of the offer so you could add "Version1" in it. You can also add "subid" in it to populate it with the unique subid of that click, which is helpful when using a tracker like Thrive.

So here is what an encoded one will look like (note: this one won't work I just did it as an example): https://1a709nn1tatf7h7h15adfdadfafsd1l.hop.clickbank.net/?tid={Version1}

And here is what an actual one will look like without the encoding: https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=YOURCLICKBANKID&vendor=leptitox&tid={Ve rsion1}

You will see the tid of each link next to all conversions you get for it.

You can also go to analytics and sort by either Offer name or TID, so that is helpful for keeping different links separate.

Anyway that is how you use hoplinks, as far as running them on Facbeook though I myself can't help with that!

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Thank you so much for this information.
i had one more question - Can we directly copy the hoplink and paste it into our campaigns? Or is there any other way
Suppose i paste the hoplink directly to my ad and run. So if there is any purchase through that link, will my commission go directly in my clickbank account or is there any other way to set it up?

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Yeah you'll always get the commission obviously, as long as you use your hoplink...

As far as using that as the actual campaign link, it depends on the rules of the traffic source you are running on.

Usually you would be using a tracker like Voluum or Thrive, where you would create an "offer" and paste your Clickbank link in when creating that "Offer", then select that Offer when creating your Campaign or Campaign Rotation, then your tracker would give you a "Campaign Link".

I don't know anything about Facebook though so I am thinking more about push/native/etc. I think Facebook requires actual links rather than redirect-style tracker links, but I'm not sure if people still use Trackers with facebook anyway and just use a different method that doesn't require redirects.

But yeah, most people doing organic traffic create a shortened link in Bitly or something that masks their Clickbank link (or makes it look prettier at least), and most people using a tracker do what I mentioned above.

With Facebook I have no idea though, sorry :/

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It will work and your affiliate commisions will be tracked when you use the hoplink.Looks like you want to try 'direct linking.' Are you? Most newbies do it because it looks like quick and easy money without the hardwork to set up funnels and contents. I was no exception 2-3 months back. I was told here it works one out of ten times. And there is a reason behind it, which I learned the hard way. Well... again I don't know what exactly you are doing as it is not clear in your question.
As regards Facebook you need to be careful with affiliate links(as I said earlier). A ban on Facebook is bad for your affiliate marketing journey.

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What methodology or process did you use at the beginning to kick start your affiliate marketing.
I want to learn affiliate marketing in a proper way before actually start earning.
Would be great if u help me out.
Thanks..

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There's no fixed way. The community here is great and replete with industry leaders. Use them to your advantage!

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If you haven't geeked out on any of the following I would recommend them:

-All the Affiliate World Conference videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRK...zwbOAy80vjtSwQ
-All of Dan Brock's videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB7...Ofyu1N9ho2ULIw
-7 Figure Entrepreneur podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnS...rc5sB_krEUFQqg
-Charles Ngo's website: https://charlesngo.com/blog/
-Flippa.com, so you can see what real, in the trenches blue-collar internet marketing looks like. Just read the description of each asset for sale, not all of them are affiliate marketing based, but actually seeing real online business that real people have built (complete with all the mistakes and problems and imperfections most of them have) is really revelatory: https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bp...=most_relevant
-And of course, read as many old posts here on STM as you possibly can

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