After choosing Clickbank for your business, you need to register. Although the registration procedure for both is the same, you should ideally know before registering whether you are going to operate as an affiliate or as a seller. As an affiliate you can set up an account whenever you like and leave it open for when you have a product to sell. If you are going to be a seller it makes more sense to leave registration until you are ready to start selling, for reasons discussed later.

The initial stage is to log on town.Clickbank.com and register to by hitting a registering button on the right corner of the window. Clickbank straight away puts you to the Promote Products” registering page.For ease every registering window forwards you to this page so you should not worry even though you are registering as a vendor.

The next step is to enter your information into the boxes. Clickbank sends checks and does require a Tax ID (though not until after you have registered) so it is absolutely vital that you enter only correct information, as you do not want your check to be mailed somewhere else.

Once you have completed all of the necessary information it is time to choose an account nickname. Here is where being a seller or an affiliate can make a tremendous difference. When you sell a product, Clickbank uses links known as Hoplinks that redirect through Clickbank so that they can keep track of affiliates. These links are ugly. So ugly, in fact, that anyone looking at the link may think it is going to redirect them to an attack site.

You need to make sure you have an account name that matches the product you are selling. At least hints at it so that the link appears more legitimate. As an affiliate, the account ID can be broader, though it would still be helpful if the link matched things you are selling. It simply becomes less important.

You will be sent a password that is equally as ugly as a Hoplink and completely unchangeable. Because of this, it is very important that you write down your nickname and password, as the consequences of losing either of those can be dire. It is very hard to retrieve lost information.Once you have entered all of that data you can click submit and register.

An additional reason to record your nickname is that it’s possible to create a website using an affiliate nickname, allow the website to run without interference for several years and then completely forget that nickname. This is the beauty of passive income: even if you never visit the Clickbank site, you will continue to receive checks. Unfortunately, this means it’s possible to forget the ID as well, which can be a problem if you have a need to make changes in the future.

Once you have entered in the password you have officially registered. If you would like to sell a product, go to the account settings, click on my products and click add new product to get started. If you would like to become an affiliate, click on marketplace and search for items to affiliate with. Click on create hoplink, enter your nickname and you will be provided an affiliate link to sell the products.

Graham McKenzie is the content Syndication Manager at CBSuccessReport.com which provides the only Advanced ClickBank Affiliate & Vendor Guide of its kind.