placing affiliate's pixel on my cb thank you page?

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emk33

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Affiliate wants me to place a tracking pixel on my checkout page. As a vendor, is there any danger in this as in them being able to execute rogue code (if the pixel is JS) or them being able to see the URL of the page of every customer and therefore able to data harvest? since the cb checkout url has the customers name and bunch of other crap in it when they hit the "thank you" page.
 


Are they putting it on different aspects of your checkout page, or just the thank you page?

I would ask them the reason, and maybe the easiest way would be to make them their own purchase process. There is always risks when you implement something directly onto your page, maybe they see sales they weren't supposed to, or data they shouldn't be seeing.
 
Yeah that's what I'm worried about. Since the clickbank checkout URL is like mysite.com/thankspage.php/?customername=FIRSTNAME&customerlname=LASTNAME&customeremail=EMAIL

so the aff might be able to view all customer details.
 
I believe they fixed that issue because for a while you could grab all the urls as they were being indexed but with a quick search this was all i could find:
Here are a few suggestions:

  1. Inserting the following HTML code in the <HEAD> element of your Thank You Page should prevent a search engine robot from indexing that page or following links on that page: <META name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"/>
  2. Give your Thank You Page URL an obscure file name (it should not be something like thankyou.htm, which is too easy to guess).
  3. Consider using a 3rd party. Popular 3rd parties include DLGuard and WishList.


Either way you have to see if it is worth the time to do it versus the risk of doing it. if you are only doing 10 sales then no biggie, if your affiliate is doing 1000 sales then do it to make them happy.
 
Clickbank has made leaps with conversion tracking for affiliates. If an affiliate is asking you to put there code into your thank you page directly, you can do a few things:

1. Find out what tracking system there using, very few tracking platforms actually show the conversion page URL. Mainly the big 3 do, i.e. google analytics, KISS, and clicky. If there not using that you should be good.

2. Have them integrate conversion tracking through clickbanks system. If they google setup affiliate conversion tracking with clickbank, they will find the way to integrate it straight in the clickbank affiliate dashboard.

3. If you trust them, and know them. Do it, if theyre a high value affiliate.

I am a clickbank affiliate and there are very few reasons why I've had to put my tracking code directly on a vendors page, outside of the clickbank interface.
 
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