Comments on: Clickbank Require Disclosure – A-List Bloggers Totally Missed the Point In December

By: Dear Jason Calacanis - The Good Citizen Of The Interwebs? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:38:23 +0000

[...] Clickbank have required disclosure for more than a year now, though they leave it to the FTC to decide what level of disclosure is required. [...]

By: Blogging Full Disclosure Debacle - Grow Some Brass Ones | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:44:08 +0000

[...] companies such as Clickbank require disclosure. As I pointed out in that article, they link through to the FTC regulations for Word of Mouth [...]

By: SEO Blogger

SEO Blogger — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:24:43 +0000

WoW…I’m such a ___. It’s in this post after all =P…LOL. That’s why I remember reading it somewhere…O.K. Thanks…

By: SEO Blogger

SEO Blogger — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:20:19 +0000

Hmn…I remember you posted a link to the “Disclosure” plugin somewhere–but I lost the place. I tried searching for it, but it’s like a needle in a post’s stack =P. Anyway, let me thank you in advance for the link to the plugin :).

*BTW–to reduce the ‘white’ space produced by your “Technorati Fav, DiggIT, Stumbleupon, Bumpzee” block, go to the CSS and shrink the “height” of the .mybot___ class to 197px.

And thanks for your post on how to get the block like that. I’ve already implement it. Check it out at my blog =).

O.K. I’ve gotten to go–set up more sites.

By: Mark from Bloglyne

Mark from Bloglyne — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:10:15 +0000

Very interesting reading and a good heads up – Appreciate the insight Andy.

By: Social Proof is the Primary Benefit of MyBlogLog and BUMPzee Widgets : Blog Archive Andy Beard

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:29:29 +0000

[...] to write an article on social proof with widgets for some time. Farkfan in a recent comment on my Clickbank Disclosure post was questioning my positioning of subscription boxes in the primary real estate on the top of [...]

By: PlugIM.com

PlugIM.com — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:27:11 +0000

Clickbank Require Disclosure – A-List Bloggers Totally Missed the Point In December…

At a rough estimate 90% of Clickbank affiliates are currently breaking Clickbanks disclosure rules, and many are breaking the rules relating to bonuses….

By: Google Requiring Affiliates Not to Declare? FTC | WOMMA : Blog Archive Andy Beard

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:43:28 +0000

[...] I had hoped would clear up this issue, but in all honestly it makes things even more confusing. Clickbank now require affiliates to disclose, and Google seem to prevent [...]

By: Affiliate Tips

Affiliate Tips — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:00:08 +0000

5,000 copies in the first 24hrs is great for any product. I am curious how much they would have to pay out to third parties like affiliates

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:57:30 +0000

On many sites instead of subscription information in that area you get advertising. Their primary goal is to get you to click the adverts.

My primary goal on this site, at least currently is to grow my subscriber base, and the good news for subscribers is that they get to read all my content without the subscription boxes, widgets etc.
I offer full feeds, and even allow people to re-purpose my content, as long as I get credit (such as a link back to the original article)

I am tracking various elements all the time – not quite as much as I would possibly like, but then this site doesn’t have enough traffic yet to make it worth tracking between small adjustments.

One thing I haven’t yet written about is the effect of social networking and images of readers in social proof. By seeing the name of someone you recognise in the sidebar, it shows that obviously your blog is a worthwhile read, and so you sign up.

I still need to add more subscription options in some way at the bottom of each article, but I have other things to tweak first, for instance subscribing is still an exit from the site, and I would love people to hand around and leave a comment.

I actually like criticism, because it makes you question your ideas from a different perspective. Whilst I am maintaining a 5-10% growth in subscribers daily,
I don’t think there are too many problems with the positioning of the subscription boxes, especially when many of my visitors are used to entering their details into a squeeze page to get information, or even to just a sales page.

I might also start varying page elements depending on the source of traffic. As an example I have a lot of traffic coming in from Google atm for my Day Job Killer review. I am highly tempted to stick a lighbox popup on that traffic with subscription information.