article writing for clickbank products

My question is when I promote a product thru clickbank and write an article about it, do I have to have a domain if I am direct linking? Second question is can I write a review type article and send that to ezine or should this be a blog?

 

Write an article that builds a case for the NEED for such a product but don't mention the product's name. Get the reader excited enough to click your link in the "About the Author" section.

 

No, you don't have to have a domain. Direct linking means you link directly to the offer.

 

I read some where that ezine articles does not allow direct linking. I never checked it out because I havent written anything yet. Just keep that in mind.

 

No, you can not link directly to an affiliate through ezine articles. However, you can link out to a squidoo page, which is absolutely free to create.

 

Link to a Squidoo/Blog or buy a .info domain for like $1.00!

I forward one of my domains straight to an affiliate page.

 

Thanks for all the advice.

 

Any ideas about doing a review of products? Blog or article

 

Generally review type articles are involved with sort of hype. So Ezinearticles would not accept them.

 

I submit a lot of review type articles and Ezinearticles accept them just fine.
My motto is that if the sales page kind of sucks, I will create a landing page first to presell the visitors. If the sales page is good and converting well, I will use redirect.

 

and is it works?

 

I've redirected and they have accepted articles.

 

EzineArticles does not mind if you are sending traffic to a hoplink AS LONG AS your hoplink is a redirect from a top level domain.

For example: h t tp: yourdomain.info > h t tp: yourclickbankid.vendor. hop. clickbank. net

Get a $0.99 .info domain from godaddy, forward that link to your hoplink, write your articles, and place that forwarded .info domain in your bio box. Bingo.

I agree with PrettyJenny, if the sales page of the product you're promoting is not that great, use a landing page instead of direct linking. HOWEVER, if you direct link, make sure your articles are very good quality and can effectively presell the reader.....or your conversions are going to be horrible.

 

I would not recommend direct linking for a plethora of reasons. Here are some of them:

• usually poor SEO quality of the sales page.
• some websites does not allow affiliate links in the author box.
• you can't control the content, so if you have to change something ... just forget it.
• not suitable for PPC. The wrongest way to do PPC is direct linking. (watch your quality score drop)
• you have to do a very good job warming up the visitors in order to "pre-sell", because that's your real job as an affiliate.
• etc...

 

How would I create a landing page?

 

Hey "newbie" you sound like: "I am hungry, how can I eat?".

I am sure you saw at least a dozen landing pages before. A landing page is a page where your visitor land on after visiting a link. That link could be advertised on PPC, a forum or an ezine article etc.

Now that you know what a landing page is, you should have some HTML knowledge (not much) in order to build one. It all boils down to "arranging" stuff on a page and you can do this with a WYSIWYG editor.

There are a number of things you should consider on a landing page, but the most important by far is the headline. A landing page should be helpful, clean and simple and should be build on a "what's next?" curiosity model, which should draw your visitors attention to the next paragraph. (People are landing page scanners).

You should definitely collect emails, therefore include an autoresponder form on your page. Bullet points are also very effective in showing benefits and if they blend describing your story more in-depth that should add value to your landing page.

There is an entire theory around landing pages, but one thing is sure: you should always split-test between 2 or more landing pages to see which one converts better.

Cheers,

 

Very good advice. So if I linked a ezine article to a sqidoo page, that would be my landing page? How would I collect emails? Is there a templete when I am making my landing page from sqidoo? Also where would I find more info on html stuff?

 

Go into Google and type anything....'HTML Converter' 'HTML Basics' 'Learn HTML code'

 

Generally speaking it's always better to keep the review articles for your website/blog..

Otherwise you might risk to get your article rejected by EzineArticles.com.

 

Generally ezinearticles will not accept direct linking through an affiliate link even if its a top level domain. You can link to a landing page which contains affiliate links irrespective of wether its top level or lower.