How to Remove the ClickFunnels Badge & Get a FREE Funnel Template!

You built a landing page in ClickFunnels. You hit preview. And there it is, right in the bottom-right corner: the little ClickFunnels affiliate badge, sitting on your page like a sticker you forgot to peel off. It does not kill conversions on its own, but it does say “I just started” to every visitor who notices it. Two clicks in the settings panel and it disappears forever.

That is just the first five minutes of this tutorial. The rest is a full walk-through of building a two-step opt-in funnel from a blank page using ClickFunnels and Funnel Scripts. By the end you will have a working opt-in page, a thank-you page, a copy-generated headline and subheading, a Brunson box, and a three-step bonus delivery system, all built in roughly ten minutes. Alston shares a shareable funnel link in the video description so you can clone the whole thing without starting from scratch.

What You’ll Walk Out With

The exact four-click path to hide the ClickFunnels affiliate badge on any page
How to create a new email-collection funnel inside ClickFunnels from scratch
How to use Funnel Scripts to generate headlines, subheadings, CTAs, and Brunson box bullets in under two minutes
Why ClickFunnels structures pages into sections, rows, and elements, and how to use that structure to build fast
What a Brunson box is and why ClickFunnels recommends adding it beneath every video
A three-step bonus delivery process you can drop onto any thank-you page
How to find the right platform to sell on based on your skills, not someone else’s, at finder.platformproof.com

Why the ClickFunnels Badge Exists (And Why People Want It Gone)

ClickFunnels adds its affiliate badge to the bottom-right corner of every page you build. The badge is part of their affiliate program. If a visitor clicks it, they land on a ClickFunnels signup page, and if they buy, the page owner earns a commission. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement in theory.

In practice, it signals to visitors that you are using someone else’s platform and have not customized it much. For a professional-looking opt-in page, that badge creates friction. Visitors who notice it are slightly less likely to believe the page belongs to a real business. Removing it is a ten-second fix that makes every page look cleaner and more credible.

The other reason people want it gone is focus. The whole point of an opt-in page is to get one action: an email address. Anything that competes for attention, including an affiliate badge that links out to another site, works against that goal. Fewer distractions mean higher conversion rates. That is not just theory, it is the same logic ClickFunnels teaches in their own documentation.

How to Remove the ClickFunnels Affiliate Badge: Step by Step

Open the landing page you want to edit. In this tutorial Alston uses a page called “Legendary Load Magnet Funnel.” The process is the same for any page in your account.

Click Edit Page to open the ClickFunnels page editor. Once you are inside the editor, look at the top navigation bar and click Settings. A dropdown menu will appear. Scroll down to General.

Inside the General settings panel, you will see an option labeled Affiliate Badge. Click the toggle or select Hide. Save the page. Click exit. When you preview the page, the badge is gone.

That is the entire process. Four clicks: Edit Page, Settings, General, Hide. The badge never comes back unless you go in and turn it on again manually.

How ClickFunnels Pages Are Built: Sections, Rows, and Elements

Before building the funnel, Alston walks through the ClickFunnels page structure so new users understand what they are working with. Every page inside ClickFunnels is organized into three nested layers.

Sections are the outermost layer and appear highlighted in green in the editor. Think of a section as a horizontal band that stretches across the full width of the page. Most landing pages have two to four sections.

Rows live inside sections and appear in blue. A row controls the column structure of the content inside it. You can have one column, two columns, three columns, or more. Rows give you control over how elements sit side by side.

Elements are the actual content blocks inside rows: headlines, paragraphs, images, videos, email input fields, buttons, icons, and custom HTML. When you want to add a headline, you add an element of type Headline. When you want a button, you add a Button element.

Understanding this structure is what makes building inside ClickFunnels fast. If something looks wrong, you know immediately which layer to click into. Section for layout, row for columns, element for content.

Creating a New Two-Step Funnel

Alston starts a brand-new funnel rather than modifying an existing template. In your ClickFunnels dashboard, click Add New Funnel and select Collect Emails as the goal. Give the funnel a name. Alston uses “test fun” here because he is building quickly for demonstration purposes. Once you clone the shareable link he provides, you can rename it to whatever fits your offer.

ClickFunnels will generate two default pages: an opt-in page and a thank-you page. These two pages together are a two-step funnel. The visitor lands on the opt-in page, enters their email, and gets sent to the thank-you page where they can access whatever you promised them.

Alston selects one of the available templates and then deletes everything on it to show how to build from a blank state. He does this so you can see how quickly a clean page comes together when you know the ClickFunnels layer system.

Using Funnel Scripts to Write All of Your Copy

Funnel Scripts is a separate software product from ClickFunnels, also created by the ClickFunnels team. It is a copy-writing tool. You answer a short set of questions about your offer, your target audience, and the result you promise, and Funnel Scripts generates dozens of headlines, subheadings, CTAs, email subject lines, and bullet points you can drop directly into your pages.

Alston uses Funnel Scripts throughout this build. Here is how each piece gets created.

Headlines from the Million Dollar Content Headline Script

Inside Funnel Scripts, Alston goes to the Headlines and Titles section and selects Million Dollar Content Headline Scripts. He fills in the fields with example data: keyword topic is affiliate marketing, target audience is beginner affiliate marketers, area of interest is make money online, the action they want to take is “I really need to make 10k per year but I am not sure how to do it,” the big payoff is “beach life,” and the enemy is “fake courses.”

The script generates options immediately. Alston highlights a few that stand out: “The Dangerous Truth About Affiliate Marketing,” “Beginner Affiliate Marketer Secrets Revealed,” and “How to Make 10k Per Year Successfully.” He copies “Beginner Affiliate Marketer Secrets Revealed” and pastes it directly into the headline element on the landing page. He adjusts the font to span two rows and leaves the color default for now.

Subheadings from the Same Script

He goes back to Funnel Scripts and scrolls through the output again. He picks “Best Ways to Make 10k Per Month” as the subheading. He pastes it into a subheading element below the main headline and adds a small amount of padding so the two lines do not crowd each other.

Call-to-Action Button Copy from the 7-Day eBook Script

For the CTA button, Alston uses the 7-Day eBook script inside Funnel Scripts. He fills in the fields: name of the product is “widget,” price is free, what is being sold is a course, the big payoff is “make more money online,” the number one benefit is “leave the 9-to-5 grind,” and the time frame is seven days. The script outputs options instantly: “Yes, I’m Ready to Leave the 9-to-5 Grind,” “Yes, I Want to Make More Money Online,” and “I’m Ready to Make More Money Online with Widget Today.” He copies the last one, pastes it into the button element, changes the button color to red, and sets it to full width.

The Critical Button Mistake to Avoid

Alston flags a mistake he made in earlier videos that caused real problems. He built a button on his opt-in page but forgot to add the Set Action feature. Without that setting active, visitors could click the button and access the free offer without entering their email. The button went to the thank-you page but the email address was never captured. If you are building a list, that defeats the entire purpose. Always set the button action to submit the form and require a valid email input before advancing to the next step.

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Building the Opt-in Page: Full Element List

Here is the exact sequence of elements Alston adds to the opt-in page, in order:

Headline element with copy from Funnel Scripts, set to two rows, font increased for visibility
Subheading element with supporting copy from Funnel Scripts, padded so it does not crowd the headline
Email input element with placeholder text reading “Your Email Address Here”
Button element with CTA copy from Funnel Scripts, set to red, full width, with Set Action enabled to submit the form before advancing

For the background, Alston searches the built-in image library for “money” and picks a background image. He then adds a white box overlay behind the form elements so the text is easy to read against the background image. The result is clean enough to get someone to enter an email address without being distracted by anything else on the page.

He also points out that free background images are available from Pixabay and Unsplash if you want something outside the ClickFunnels library. Both are free and do not require attribution for commercial use.

What a Brunson Box Is and How to Build One

For the thank-you page, Alston introduces something called a Brunson box. He says he had not heard the term before finding it in ClickFunnels’ own recommendations.

A Brunson box is a short text summary of what is inside the video on the page. It exists for visitors who do not want to watch the video but still want to know if the offer is worth their time. The box sits beneath or beside the video embed and gives the key points in bullet form.

To build the Brunson boxes, Alston goes back to Funnel Scripts and finds the Brunson Bullet Scripts section. He fills in the default fields and clicks Build. Funnel Scripts generates multiple sets of bullet points instantly. He copies one set, goes back to the thank-you page, deletes the placeholder text, and pastes the bullets into two-column text elements side by side.

The two-column layout is intentional. ClickFunnels recommends placing the Brunson boxes in two columns beneath the video so the page does not become a long vertical scroll. The visitor sees the video on the left and the bullets on the right, or the video above and the boxes below in a two-by-two grid.

He builds the grid using a new row with two columns, drops a text element in each column, and pastes in the Funnel Scripts output. He sets the background of each box to white so they stand out from the rest of the page.

The Three-Step Bonus Delivery System

Below the Brunson boxes, Alston adds a three-step process for bonus delivery. This section is for situations where you are promoting an affiliate product and want to give visitors additional bonuses for buying through your link. If you are not offering bonuses, you can skip steps two and three and keep only the CTA button from step one.

The three steps are:

Step 1: Click the link to purchase the product. Alston adds a full-width red CTA button that opens the affiliate offer in a new tab. The button URL points to his affiliate link. He verifies the URL is correct by checking that it shows his domain in the action settings.
Step 2: Email the receipt or a screenshot of the purchase confirmation to his email address. Alston uses the text element to display his actual email address so buyers know exactly where to send the proof.
Step 3: Check your email for your bonuses. Once he receives the receipt and confirms the purchase, he sends the bonuses manually. This is a simple fulfillment system that requires no automation tools to start.

Each step gets its own icon, a short headline, and a one-sentence description. The visual layout helps buyers follow the process without confusion. Alston duplicates elements to build the three steps faster rather than recreating each one from scratch.

Making the Funnel Shareable

Once both pages are built, Alston makes the funnel available as a shareable clone link. Inside ClickFunnels, you can create a share URL for any funnel. When someone visits that URL, they can import the entire funnel into their own ClickFunnels account with one click. If they do not have a ClickFunnels account, they are prompted to start a two-week free trial first.

Alston places the share link in the video description. Anyone who watches the video can clone the funnel, replace the copy with their own offer, and publish without building from scratch. The structure, layout, and Brunson boxes all carry over in the clone.

He also points out that after importing, every element is editable. You can change the headline, swap out the background image, update the email input placeholder, replace the CTA copy, and point the button to your own affiliate link. The funnel is a starting point, not a finished product.

Design Principles ClickFunnels Actually Teaches

A few design rules come up during the build that are worth noting because Alston says these come directly from ClickFunnels’ own training material, not just his personal preference.

One column for opt-in pages. On the opt-in page, Alston uses a single column for all elements. The reasoning is that multiple columns introduce visual complexity. The more things a visitor has to look at, the more likely they are to click away without entering their email. A single column keeps the eye moving in one direction: down to the form and the button.

Plain and generic on purpose. The opt-in page in this tutorial looks simple. That is the point. ClickFunnels recommends plain and basic over designed and cluttered for top-of-funnel opt-in pages. Fancy design does not convert better on a cold opt-in page. A clear headline, a subheading, an email field, and a button is often all you need.

Full-width buttons. Every CTA button Alston builds is set to full width. A full-width button is harder to miss than a small centered button. It fills the row and makes the next action obvious. This is one of the smallest changes that has a consistent positive effect on click-through rates.

Video plus Brunson box on thank-you pages. ClickFunnels recommends always pairing a video with a Brunson box on thank-you and bridge pages. Some visitors watch videos. Some skim bullet points. Covering both behaviors means fewer people leave the page without getting the message.

How Long Does This Actually Take?

Alston builds the full two-step funnel during the video and estimates it takes roughly ten minutes once you know where the tools are. The actual recording includes him navigating back and forth between ClickFunnels and Funnel Scripts several times, which slows the pace down. With practice and the shareable clone link already imported, you could have a working two-page funnel customized for your offer in ten to fifteen minutes.

The time investment breakdown looks something like this:

Creating the funnel and selecting a template: two minutes
Generating headline, subheading, CTA, and Brunson bullets in Funnel Scripts: three to four minutes
Pasting copy, adjusting layout, setting button action: three minutes
Adding background image and white box overlay: two minutes
Copying the funnel for the thank-you page, adding video and Brunson boxes: three to four minutes
Adding the three-step bonus delivery section: two to three minutes

Total: fifteen to eighteen minutes for someone doing this for the first time. Ten minutes or less once you have done it a few times.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Will removing the ClickFunnels badge affect my affiliate commissions?

No. The badge is an optional display element. Your affiliate account and any commissions tied to your referral links are completely separate from whether the badge appears on your pages. Hiding the badge does not disconnect your affiliate tracking or remove you from the ClickFunnels affiliate program.

Does the badge removal setting apply to all pages in my funnel at once?

No. The Affiliate Badge setting is controlled at the individual page level through each page’s Settings panel. If you have an opt-in page and a thank-you page, you need to hide the badge on each one separately. It takes about thirty seconds per page total.

Do I need Funnel Scripts to build a funnel, or can I write my own copy?

You can absolutely write your own copy. Funnel Scripts is a paid add-on that speeds up the copy-writing process by generating multiple options quickly. If you prefer to write your own headlines and CTAs, you can skip Funnel Scripts entirely and type directly into the element fields in ClickFunnels. Many people start without it and add it later once they are publishing pages regularly.

What is the ClickFunnels two-week free trial and does it include everything?

ClickFunnels offers a 14-day free trial on their standard plans. During the trial you get access to the funnel builder, templates, page editor, and email collection features. The trial does not include Funnel Scripts, which is a separate product with its own pricing. At the end of the trial you choose a paid plan or the account is paused.

What is the difference between an opt-in page and a landing page inside ClickFunnels?

In ClickFunnels, the terms are often used interchangeably. A landing page is any page where traffic arrives. An opt-in page is a specific type of landing page whose goal is to collect an email address. When you create a funnel and select “Collect Emails” as the goal, the first page ClickFunnels creates is automatically an opt-in page with an email input field already in place.

What is a Brunson box and who is it named after?

The Brunson box is named after Russell Brunson, the co-founder of ClickFunnels. It is a short block of bullet points placed near a video that summarizes what the viewer will learn or get from watching. The idea is that some visitors will not press play but will read bullet points instead. Giving them a text summary increases the chance they stay engaged with the page and take the desired next action.

Can I use a YouTube video on my ClickFunnels thank-you page?

Yes. In the video element inside the ClickFunnels editor, you can switch the source from the default to YouTube and paste in a YouTube video URL. You can use a public video or an unlisted video. Alston recommends unlisted if the video is specifically created for your funnel and you do not want it appearing in YouTube search results.

How does the three-step bonus delivery system work without automation?

The manual version that Alston shows here relies on the buyer emailing you a receipt or screenshot after purchase. You then verify the purchase and manually send the bonuses. This works at small volume and costs nothing to set up. As volume grows, you can automate it by connecting your email provider to ClickFunnels and triggering a bonus delivery sequence when a tag or purchase event fires. The manual system is a viable starting point if you are just getting going.

Sources

Alston Godbolt, “How to Remove the ClickFunnels Badge & Get a FREE Funnel Template!” YouTube, youtube.com/watch?v=5nxDt3AHX7I
ClickFunnels page editor documentation, help.clickfunnels.com
Funnel Scripts product overview, funnelscripts.com
Pixabay free image library, pixabay.com
Unsplash free image library, unsplash.com