There is no doubt about it, Clickbank is the most popular affiliate network on the Internet. This will explain why so many people worldwide become Clickbank affiliates. However, if you're new to the game and are thinking of signing up with Clickbank, there are important things you should know about this affiliate network marketing giant before doing anything. There are a number of pitfalls that you need to be aware of so that you are not scratching your head wondering why things have gone so terribly wrong after. Hopefully, this articles will provide you with some answers.

The first thing you need to know about signing up with Clickbank is that there is no fee. Anyone can join free and promote any product in the Clickbank marketplace. That's the good news. Here's the bad news. The default settings for a new Clickbank account are set to pay you only once you've reached $100 in sales. So if you're selling $20 products and making $10 per sale, you're going to have to make quite a few sales in order to get paid. So, my suggestion is, as soon as you've completed your sign up process, to change the minimum payout to $25. That's as low as they will allow you to go, but it's much better than $100.

Another thing you need to know is that if you are going to be doing any email advertising of Clickbank products, you cannot use their hoplinks directly in your email ads. You must cloak them inside of another link, such as a Tiny URL or something similar. The reason for this is because many years ago, during the spam wars, Clickbank got a number of complaints. Since this time, email ads can no longer have Clickbank hoplinks in them.

This very same problem is the reason why you will not get notified if you make a sale unless you are a vendor. Affiliates do not get sales confirmations. So if you want to see if you have made any sales from your Clickbank products promotions, you must log into your account and check manually. Another annoyance that affiliates just have to deal with.

When you first create your Clickbank account, they will send you an email with your password. I suggest you write this down somewhere. The reason for that is because they do not have a feature where you can have your password sent to you if you forget it. If you do, you have to go through a process to generate a new password, which they will send to you just as they did your original one.

As an affiliate, in order to qualify for payments, you have to have at least sales from 5 different credit card numbers and must have at least one each from Visa and Mastercard. Nobody is quite sure why they do this, but the theory is that this is to keep people from simply making purchases through their own account in order (to reached the minimum payout amount) to get paid.

Yes, Clickbank makes you jump through a lot of hoops to get paid and do business with them, but they are still the best game in town and dealing with them can literally turn you into a successful entrepreneur overnight.