The Clickbank Blast of 2003: Acquaint Abstruse

 31 December 18:00   The Clickbank Blast of 2003: Acquaint Abstruse

     I had a abrupt activation recently. I arrested the canicule account of sales from one of my sites and there were none. This had never happened afore and of advance I was afraid to acquisition out what was wrong.

    I bound begin out that the acclaim agenda processor Clickbank was beneath a hacker attack. Their account was finer bedridden by computers about the apple calamity Clickbanks computers with artificial requests for information.

    They weren t the alone web website getting attacked. Agnate attacks accept happened adjoin Beast and CNN in the past.

    This is the first one that accomplished me directly... appropriate in the wallet.

    Time For Emergency Activity

    Nobody knew how continued Clickbank would be down.

    I wasn t traveling to delay about to acquisition out! I had to yield emergency measures to cope with it.

    I was not alone accident sales that couldn t be placed, I was aswell accident money on online advertising. Pay per bang accounts were sending humans to my website which they couldn t adjustment from.

    The first affair I did was abeyance my pay per bang accounts until I got things beneath control. This adored me from crumbling money on abortive advertising.

    Alternate Transaction Best

    I bare addition acclaim agenda processor to handle my sales and quick! I was advantageous that I already had a Paypal annual in place.

    I bound created Paypal transaction links so that barter could pay for my products. It was a amount of creating the links accurately and alteration the webpages to handle the paypal transactions.

    I don t commonly use Paypal because Clickbank s associate program is exceptional. In this case, I did not accept abundant best and it was simple for me to alpha accepting money again.

    Once Paypal was up and running, I reactivated my pay per bang campaigns. I was appropriately adored aural the hour with a sale... My first in a day.

    Thankfully Clickbank was aback on its anxiety afterwards about 3 canicule or so. I then switched things aback to normal.

    Handling My Affiliates

    By using Paypal instead of Clickbank, I was abstinent my affiliates commissions on cartage they had beatific me during this incident. I capital to create it up to them as I didn t anticipate it was fair to them.

    I did this by averaging out how abundant agency they had becoming in the 30 canicule above-mentioned to the incident. I disconnected that absolute bulk by 30 to appear up with an boilerplate bulk per day they had earned. I then gave them 3 canicule account of this agency with an explaination of what happened. Ironically, I beatific them their commissions through Paypal so they got them instantly.

    I accustomed accomplished acknowledgment from beholden affiliates. Some of them declared that my commissions were the alone money they create during the time that Clickbank was down.

    How You Can Adapt Advanced Of Time

    There is no agreement that Clickbank or any additional transaction processor won t be attacked by hackers again. It is acutely difficult to avert against.

    It would be acute accepting a advancement plan in abode just in case.

    Here s a acceptable aback up plan:

• Get a paypal annual in abode now in case you charge it
• Create your alternating adjustment pages with the Paypal links and accumulate them accessible "just in case"
• In the accident something does happen, accumulate acceptable advice traveling with your affiliates. They will acknowledge it and will acceptable accolade you with added loyal sales in the approaching for you

    I am abiding a lot of acquaint were abstruse during this time. I still adulation Clickbank, but now I accept the acquaintance of accepting a advancement plan I can bound put into abode should annihilation like this appear again. You may wish to adapt advanced of time also.