You can manually create a readable HopLink using a vendor nickname and your affiliate nickname. The HopLink must exist in this format:
https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=AFFILIATE&vendor=ADMIRESKIN
To manually create a HopLink in this format, replace “AFFILIATE” with your account nickname.
Once you have created the HopLink, you can add Tracking IDs to track your traffic sources and parameters to pass to the vendor’s page. Then, test the HopLink to make sure it works before proceeding with promotion
A tracking ID (TID) is an alphanumeric string of up to 100 characters, including numbers, lowercase letters, and underscores, that you can add to the end of a HopLink.
Your tracking IDs are visible only to you as the affiliate, so the vendor you send customers to won’t be able to view your Tracking IDs. The format for a Tracking ID is:
https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=AFFILIATE&vendor=ADMIRESKIN&tid=EXAMPLE_TID
When a customer follows a HopLink with a tracking ID, and when they purchase a product, the tracking ID is linked with those events. You can use tracking IDs to differentiate between different sources of traffic and compare your promotional methods.
Once you’ve created a HopLink in any format, you should test it to make sure you’ll receive commissions for sales you promote.
Step 1: Follow the HopLink you created by clicking on it or entering it into your browser.
Step 2: Click the Buy Now button (or the equivalent on the vendor’s pitch page).
Step 3: Scroll to the bottom of the ClickBank Order Form, below the Terms of Sale.
Step 4: Look for your account nickname in the affiliate line.

- If you see [affiliate=yournickname], the HopLink is working.
- If you see [affiliate=none], the HopLink is not reporting you as the affiliate. See the Troubleshooting section for more information.
- When the commission settings for a product is set to “none,” the order form for the product will display affiliate=none. In this scenario, the only way to test if a HopLink is working is to do a test purchase from the vendor.
- If an [affiliate=] line is not displayed, the vendor may have disabled the display of that line on their order form.