Here's how to setup Robert Plank's JVPlus for use with ClickBank.

1) First thing you should do is buy it. The second thing is to upload all of the files to your website.

The files include jvplus.css, jvplus-config.php, jvplus-packer.php, jvplus-share.php and jvplus.php.

2) Next, you need to test it out to make sure it works on your PHP enabled web server.

Open a new text file and created a web page that links to some url, for instance, http://www.example.com. At the bottom of the text file, add the following line:


<script type="text/javascript" src="/jvplus/jvplus.php"></script>

Save the file as either index.html. index.htm, or index.php.

3) Upload the newly created index file to a directory on your server, in my case, you can visit my JVPlus subdirectory to see an example.

Here's what it looks like.

Fancy, huh?

If you were to put your mouse of the link, you should see that it goes to "http://www.example.com".

4) Now add on a "?hop=yourname" at the end of the url. Something like this:

Click here for an example, http://www.davewooding.com/jvplus/?hop=dwooding

5) Put your mouse over the link now and notice the difference ...

Everything should be working now - you should see your name show up in the url that you put your mouse over.

6) Time to do this for real.

Edit the jvplus-config.php file.

Add in links to your clickbank products that look like these:

Save and close the jvplus-config.php file

7) Edit your index file.

Add links to your Clickbank product(s) that look like straight links (and not Clickbank hop links).

8) Save the index file and close it. Go back to the subdirectory and reload, here's what my page looks like now.

9) Put your mouse over the newly added links and notice that the link goes through ClickBank's hop link system.

10) Let people link to your subdirectory with you Clickbank products and have ALL your products use THEIR affiliate link, give them a link that looks like this
CLICK HERE

"And in the beginning" ... what a great opening line.

Time to start building a brand for myself. Get out and press the flesh with the people. Shake some hands, get pictures taken with the babies, break ground on the new skyscraper. Oh, sorry, wrong conversation.

Where was I? Oh, yes, talking with you. Letting you know what's going on around here. Telling you my great plans for this little old weblog out on the internut.

I guess I should start with what I have planned for this site. After I spruce up the interior a little - a new paint job, refinish the floors, new kitchen cabinets ... no, no, no, no - there I go again, getting off track.

Actually, I do mean I need to spruce up the interior of this weblog a bit. Give it a solid foundation to build on. Stuff like tricking out the title - get rid of that damn raquo thing, you know that 'greater than symbol' that services no worthwhile purpose. I have the latest and greatest version of Wordpress running this site. Not sure what all of its capabilities are, noticed a bunch of widgets running around when I went to muck around with the presentation. I'll have to wrap my head around widgets and I see if I like what I have here. Or maybe just do it the old fashion way and edit using vi on the command line. Something like this.

Dont' worry, I won't make you touch it, it doesn't hurt.

Once I have the look and feel stuff done, will move on to adding analytics - maybe Statcounter or Google Analytics for tracking.

Of course, I'll make the effort to build a list of subscribers - plan on making it worthwhile by giving stuff away. When I say stuff, I mean useful PHP scripts - kind of like what Robert Plank does at his site.

Then I'm going on a bender and getting setup with a bunch of Web 2.0 stuff for promoting this bad boy blog. De.licio.us, onlywire, propeller, youtube, slideshare - whatever else I can think of to toot my own horn.

I have thought about linkbaiting. Already have in mind who I'm targeting - going for the big fish on this one. Title will read something like "_____ ____, I have your wife hostage." The ironic thing is I have something to back it up with - something I bought November 2007 when I first found out about this little factoid. Cloak and dagger stuff - ohhh, ahhhh, exiting!

And to finish up, I'm going to click on those links I just dropped and see if I can attract any attention over here.

There you go, the first blog post.