Once you have decided to use Clickbank for your Internet marketing business you will need to open up an account. Though the process is the same, it is a good idea to know beforehand if you are going to be a product seller or an affiliate. If you are going to be an affiliate, you can open up the account at any time and save it for when you have found a product that you want to sell. When you are signing up as a product seller, however, it is best to wait until you have a product for reasons that will be discussed momentarily.

As one of the leading affiliate hubs available, Clickbank needs to keep track of over 100,000 affiliates selling over 10,000 different products. With so many different hits to keep track of, in order to successfully create an effective and easy to use affiliate system, Clickbank created special links known as “Hoplinks.”

As you know, the primary value of the Internet is having both information and products available on demand. Go online, search for a topic of interest or an item you need and make the purchase, without having to go to a store or a library.

Clickbank gained the majority of its fame for being not only a well designed affiliate system for selling digital products, but for being extremely simple – registration takes less than a few minutes, creating an affiliate link that works successfully can be created in less than a few seconds, and its system of keeping track of sales is currently second to none.