Clickbank Questions – Does anyone know how clickbank.com and their hotlinks works?
how does this work on a website do i have to get new websites or can i use craigslist or other advertising site to do business?
Best Answer: Clickbank offers many products, most of them (if not all) are electronic products like ebooks, software scripts and so on. When you have an affiliate account with them, you can generate hoplinks to all their products.
A hoplink is a link to a particular product that has your affiliate identification on it so the owner of the product knows you are the one sending the buyer and therefore you can get your commission.
After getting an account you can promote any product, for example, you want to promote a weight loss ebook, you can open a webpage with information about weight loss and send traffic to it and have your hoplink so you can have interested people to buy the product and get the commission. But you don’t need a webpage, you can send emails with the hoplink, post flyers on nearby stores with your hoplink, set an adwords campaign with your hoplink (an adwords campaign is a google product that shows your ad to interested people) and many other methods to promote that product so people buy and you get your commission.
Hope it is clear.