1. What is a clikID?

A clikID is a people friendly, web page identifier.

An example is: CANADA

2. How do I use a clikID?

As an Internet User, after you see a clikID of interest, you will easily recall it because it’s designed to be user friendly. When you next have Internet access, go towww.clik.ca.and enter the clikID in the box on the home page. Then click on the arrow beside it and you are automatically taken to the exact web page of information that matches the clikID advertising.   Simple and fast.

3. What is so special about a clikID?

We store the full web page address beside each clikID in our database.

a) The User will always find the correct web page of information.

b) clikID sends Customers to your web page that you specified upon registration:

•No exposure of your target Customer to competitor’s sites.

•No time loss and no difficult-to-type domain addresses.

•No long web addresses to recall or write down.

•No search distractions on the way to your site.

• Supports mobile Users accessing information from everywhere.

•Low cost - as low as $5 per month.

c) clikID is an easy to remember ID that you create for your advertising purpose.

            • Can be quickly noted from a Billboard during a drive-by.

•Works well with TV media (using our Class 8 clikWORDS™).

            • Easy to remember when heard from Audio media such as Radio.

            • Rapidly read from Print media such as Newspapers, Flyers, Brochures etc.

•Effective for use in Mall posters, Bus or Taxi advertising.

4. Examples of a clikID

We offer several classes of clikID service to meet your diverse needs, as follows:

5. Is a clikID expensive?

It costs as little as $5 per month. See our Fee Schedule

6. Why do advertisers use a clikID?

Specifically, why should I use a clikID in my advertising program?

1) Because it is simpler and faster for your Customers to find the exact webpage for your advertised product or service. The easier and quicker that an existing or potential customer finds your product or service information, the more products and services you will sell.  A clikID in your ad supports both new and repeat Customers!

2) Because it is an economical way to drive more traffic to your web site. It Internet enables your advertising program for visual and audio media (Print,Radio, TV). Select a class of clikID that best meets your Customer needs.

3) All clikIDs provide real-time Customer traffic measurement.  Measure your success!

4) It provides you with a competitive edge in the market place.

7. How do I advertise a clikID?

There are 3 standard ways to advertise a clikID…

Method 1: Uses the word ‘clikID’, plus a full colon, followed by the actual clikID.

                  Examples:  clikID:883  

Method 2:   Uses the equal sign instead, plus includes our domain.

                   Example:  clikID=883 at www.clik.ca

Method 3: When adequate space is available and the target Users may be less familiar

                    with the web world, provide complete instructions.

                   Example: Go to www.clik.ca and enter 883 as the clikID

8. Web page address updates

You are probably wondering what happens when the web address for your target web page changes, when the webmaster moves things around for many valid reasons.

You can update the target web page address (the URL) matching your clikID at any time using our website. Click on Login at www.clik.ca and update the URL for your clikID.  Do this regularly to ensure that your clikID always connects the latest information to your Customers.

9. Web pages that work with a clikID

Any publicly accessible web page on the Internet can be used with your clikID. You determine this when you register your clikID.

Your clikID can also be selected specifically to indicate a mobile web address (example: M55). Customers will know instantly that they can view your web page from a mobile device easily, such as from their mobile phone.

10. If I use the clikID provided, will I always find the best information?

YES. With clikID you have zero search risk. You go directly to the web page that was specified by the clikID registrant. It is their expert guidance to you the Customer, to provide the best information to help you! This is why Canadians love to see a clikID.

11. SALES and MARKETING enhanced by a clikID

Selling a house or renting an apartment?  You probably have a web page describing it, out there somewhere on the Internet. Selling a car, motorcycle, cottage or some land? Simply include a clikID in your advertising!  You can even place a small clikID sign on the item for sale!

If you are advertising a new business service that is explained in detail on your website, then use a clikID to help readers easily find the important, precise information. Customers are always looking for easy ways to find helpful information. The Customer of today demands direct access to better information! Now you can deliver more value to your Customers with a clikID.

Have a product warranty or recall issue? Using a clikID in your advertising will send Customers directly to the exact page of help they need, on your website! Simplicity of use guarantees clients will enjoy clikID. Remember that your clikID always takes the Customer directly to YOUR website, to the single web page that YOU decided best matches you ad.   If in fact you are a reseller and there is a special set of instructions for handling the recall or service process, you can use the URL of the official supplier’s page in your clikID for directing Customers regarding the upgrade, recall or safety issue. 

A clikID is very powerful so be sure to think creatively how you can use it to meet your Customer’s needs!

Whether the Customer sees your clikID in a newspaper ad, sees it in the window of a business while walking down the street, or notices it as part of a TV ad, the clikID directly connects Customers to the exact web page of the target website that you predetermined would best sell your products and services!

12. Who else needs a clikID?

Anyone with a web site advertising products or services should consider using a clikID to better achieve their goals. Real Estate Companies, Car Dealers, Tourism Operators, Sports Teams, Businesses, Event Marketing Firms, Service Providers, Governments and Individuals can all benefit from the direct-to-your-web-page power of a clikID.

A clikID is a connector between any person and any publicly accessible web page.

It is a cost-effective method of using the power of the Internet to enhance any business or organization.

When you have something very specific within your many web pages, then a clikID in your ad or on your sign or poster will assist Customers/Users in finding the exact web page that matches their interest and needs! Use a clikID to better target your advertising. Direct the potential Customer to your best web page!   More and more Customers want a simpler and faster information service. Measure and confirm your increase in traffic through your clikID by regularly checking the traffic counter for your clikID.

You can be very creative with your use of a clikID in advertising.

REAL ESTATE - By going to www.clik.ca and entering the clikID, the User can find details about a HOUSE FOR SALE directly from your brief newspaper ad.  No time delays. Or provide instant information as they drive around the neighbourhood of interest and read your clikID on your sign. This is what Customers are looking for!  Even better, use a Mobile Class 5 clikID if the target web page is mobile device optimized.  Many mobile devices such as the iPhone enable the User to look at any page on the Internet already so a regular clikID is already a very powerful connector of Customers to your products and services using a mobile device!

FOR SALE – basically anything!  Snowmobiles, Classic Cars, Used Equipment, Antique Furniture, Travel Tours etc.

JOB ADVERTISEMENTS -  you can include a clikID in your advertising for providing more detail.  Interested viewers will be able to find the exact web page that contains detailed information on the job. We send them to your website or the website that you want them to view such as a professional HR site. You can be creative using a Class 8 clikWORDS™ to attract potential candidates. The early bird will register the most powerful and creative clikIDs (such as clikWORDS™) so register your clikID early before your competition does!

BUSINESS and FRANCHISE opportunities – lots of ways to market your opportunities using a clikID. Rather than sending them to your website, send them to your custom web page designed to market and then sell your franchise opportunity!

SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT and COMMUNITY events - when you advertise a community event, provide a clikID so interested people can go to the exact web page for more details including the actual registration page, that seems so diificult to find these days.

RECOGNITION , REMEMBRANCE, BIRTHDAY, WEDDING web pages - for family, friends, soldiers, police services, volunteers etc.  Match your creativity with a clikID.

13. How do I know my clikID is working?

YYou can check your clikID traffic at any time by logging in to your clikID account via the Login link near the bottom of our homepage atwww.clik.ca>. You will need the same password that you used during clikID registration.

An increasing traffic count will tell you that Customers are seeing your advertising and using your clikID to go to the exact web page you specified.  Check the traffic count at the start of your advertising and then hourly, daily or weekly to meet your needs.

You should also check the proper functioning of your clikID on a regular basis to ensure that your clikID’s target web page is working.  If it is not working correctly, make sure that you have the correct web page address (URL) entered for your clikID. Remember that a normal URL starts like this:  http://

14. Keeping your clikID account paid up!

If you register and use a clikID that you really like, that works well for you in your advertising, you can usually continue to use it.   However two conditions apply as follows:

a)      Make sure your renewal payment reaches us early - before your clikID expires! An expired clikID may be offered to the very next visitor to our website.  Please keep your clikID account paid up to avoid disappointment.

b)      Within our Terms of Service we do reserve the right to not offer renewal of any registered clikID, subject to our sole discretion.

15. Terms of Service

Please read our Terms of Service carefully.

a)      Users of our clikID service must comply with all Canadian legal requirements, including the copyright laws ofCanada.

b)      We reserve the right to refuse any User supplied content that, in our sole opinion, is not suitable, including any URL (web page address) for a clikID that in our sole opinion is not suitable.

c)      Please also note that within our Terms of Service we do reserve the right to not offer renewal of a clikID, subject to our sole discretion.

16. clikID:FREE

Experience the marketing and sales power of our clikID service by entering FREE in the clikID text box at www.clik.ca . You will be informed of a special offer.