I’ve been a member of Clickbank for several years as an affiliate. One year I sold quite a lot of affiliate products but the amount was under the US $100 threshold. This is where affiliate programs catch you out.

But what does Clickbank do about it? They delete money from this sum if there is inactivity for 90 days, then they delete more if there is further inactivity, so I lost most of it and will never get to $100 at this rate.

I only have one or two clickbank products on two of my sites. This is probably not the answer. I should pile up my web sites with all clickbank products as I have seen others do. But I’m afraid I don’t trust them.

Besides, these days, I can’t imagine who sells anything from affiliate programs. Amazon is having a profit problem at the moment so if all their affiliate links don’t bring in enough profit, I can’t imagine how the other programs are going. Also, everyone knows the big online stores now. Why would they go through your links. And, how many times have you thought about buying something you see from a web site and delete the obvious referral id.

I worry about cloaking links because a) they may not be counted by the affiliate program and b) Google may detect it and ban you.