Is ClickBank a scam? There are a lot of accusations floating around about ClickBank or ClickBank employees shaving and/or stealing affiliate commissions. While I am not a big affiliate (or fan) of ClickBank, I have noticed that my sales have completely stopped. Does that mean that there is a CickBank scam? No, but some of the arguments and claims that have been made on some of the most popular forums leaves me wondering if they might be scamming.

Like many others, I started out promoting ClickBank products and eventually I had 3 sites promoting ClickBank products that had a ranking on Google of #1 – #5 for their respective keywords and at one point was generating couple hundred dollars per week. However, as time went on my rankings stayed the same and a couple even increased, but my commissions steadily decreased to nothing. Absolute zero!! Go to ClickBank about the issue and they say the tracking is fine and everything is either your fault or the merchant is at fault or someone is replacing your affiliate id with their own. Does this mean ClickBank is scamming? No but they do have a serious issue with their affiliate links being viewed and therefore making it easy to steal someones commissions. Another issue is that their tracking sucks. Want proof. I had my father purchase something with my affiliate link. The link was present at the bottom of the order form and the order was made and processed without any issues. Guess what – no affiliate commission!! Now I dont think there is a ClickBank scam, I do think ClickBank is ignoring the tracking issues, affiliate id issues and if you ask me they do not care (and that is as bad as stealing or scamming in my opinion).

So what should an affiliate do? Stop pushing ClickBank products. Hit them where it hurts and either cause them to shut down (not that I would care) or spend the money to get an affiliate tracking system that is worth a damn, replace their seriously outdated affiliate links and start doing something about affiliates losing money.