Hi guys and gals! this is my first post of many here on DP as its called! I have been coming here for ages but never really thought about signing up until today. Anyways, this is a really cool sick so far and its helped me alot even without being a member! So, here is my first question on DP :] So far this weekend, about a day and a half, I have sent 3,747 visits to 5 seperate affiliates and not even 1 sale??? All my keywords are targetted to that type of traffic. I usually get around 5-8 sales per thousand visits but for some reason nothing! I am not that great at clickbank as I have only started around a month ago??? Any ideas or anything??? One thing is that my links arnt "cloacked" or something ??? Help me please! Weekend are usually my biggest selling times so far ! Confuzzled
Hi, and welcome to the forum, Tannedchick. You mean to 5 different vendors' products, following your own affiliate links to them, I imagine? Distressing indeed. And a number big enough to be statistically significant. May I ask four little questions? More for you to "mull over" than to answer! 1. Do the products to which you're sending traffic have a vendor's opt-in on their sales pages? 2. Are they all high gravity products? 3. Are you "direct-linking" (sending traffic straight there from articles or whatever, without using a landing page)? 4. Are you building your own list(s)? For myself, I would change that immediately, I admit. What I do (because I don't understand anything technical or complicated) is to buy a .info domain from GoDaddy for $1 each, for every product I'm promoting, forward it to my hoplink, and then use that domain-name, effectively, as the link on which people click so that they can't see that it's a hoplink. Many uninformed people imagine, wrongly, that buying through an affiliate's link is going to cost them more.
Sorry If i sound really thick here but I am new to all of this. "You mean to 5 different vendors' products, following your own affiliate links to them, I imagine?" Basically I am promoting 5 peoples products on clickbank if thats what you mean ??? Distressing indeed. And a number big enough to be statistically significant. May I ask four little questions? More for you to "mull over" than to answer! 1. Do the products to which you're sending traffic have a vendor's opt-in on their sales pages? Sorry, But i dont know what that is 2. Are they all high gravity products? These are the ones i am promoting http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5809/clickbank.jpg 3. Are you "direct-linking" (sending traffic straight there from articles or whatever, without using a landing page)? I am just sending traffic from my blog to the promotional links I get from CB? 4. Are you building your own list(s)? Like email lists ??? Sorry , once again, Im new =[ For myself, I would change that immediately, I admit. What I do (because I don't understand anything technical or complicated) is to buy a .info domain from GoDaddy for $1 each, for every product I'm promoting, forward it to my hoplink, and then use that domain-name, effectively, as the link on which people click so that they can't see that it's a hoplink. Many uninformed people imagine, wrongly, that buying through an affiliate's link is going to cost them more.[/QUOTE] If you could help me in anyway that would be great =]
This is quite a high number of hops not to be making any sales with - it is notoriously hard to find decent products in clickbank, as although gravity is on indicator it does not prove a good conversion rate, so it is more a little trial and error and finding product that actually convert for you. People don't really like giving away their landing pages or blogs so I don't expect you to, but I would perhaps look at the methods you have of sending people to these products - are you reviewing them properly, or giving the benefits of the different programs or properly writing guide and articles about these products, or are you just placing links in semi related text and forwarding them on? There will be a difference for example between a general article on healthy eating on your blog and then a link saying "click here for more information on health and weight loss" and going to the fat burning product, or a review of the program, or an introduction to the program then linking saying "you can get this whole guide here for ___" - this might not be the issue, but a little pre-selling goes a long way.. just a thought.
Definitely you don't know what you're doing... How are you even able to send thousands of visits if you're new to all the IM world. I suppose it's junk/spam traffic and it'll never convert. (that means you're basically wasting your time) Here's a few suggestions I'd make to get your started "the right way this time": 1) http://www.clickbankguide.com/ 2) http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/ 3) http://www.affiliatetips.com/ 4) http://www.bummarketingmethod.com/ 5) http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/ Just some places that I'm sure you'll enjoy. Al.
Hi precious007 Thanks for the reply. The traffic is coming directly from my personal blog. I am a model and I get around 300,000 visits to my blog per month.I thought clickbank was a good way to earn some extra money so I dont think the traffic is spam/junk as its people that come onto my site for this type of info. I post around 3-7 blog posts per day and that gets a fair amount of traffic.I use to use adsense but it just doesnt make that much even though i get a ton of clicks. So ya, i dont know what i am doing really and i will look at those sites you gave me. I am starting to think that its because my link is exposed like .site.com/?hop=myaccountname when the browser goes onto it??? i read somewhere that I need to cloack it or something ??? Thanks for the help so far guys and ill look at that site. i am guessing there is something wrong now because i have sent 4,278 hits to 6 products this weekend and and not even one sale. i really dont understand it is targetted and is in relation to my posts ??? Thanks
Sorry, I shouldn't have "assumed"; if you're new to Clickbank, there's no reason you'd know this. I was asking whether the sales-pages of the products you're promoting include on them a box into which prospective customers can put their email addresses for the products' vendors to keep in touch with them by email (some affiliates refuse to promote such products, but it doesn't necessarily follow that you shouldn't!). I understand, but this didn't actually answer my question. However, my question may not necessarily have been entirely appropriate anyway, so don't worry about it. If you look at those products in the Clickbank marketplace, you can discover the "gravity figure" for each. If the gravity is high, that means they're very competitive products with many affiliates, and may not necessarily be suitable for your purposes. (It doesn't mean, as many people wrongly believe, that they're also products that are selling well!). How are you selecting the products for which you're an affiliate? Ok, got it. This can work well, if you have plenty of traffic and if the products match the target audience. Cool. This has potential. I completely understand why you want to try to monetize the traffic a bit. I would, too. Yes, indeed. If it's appropriately targeted traffic (products in niches that are known to be of interest to your visitors), this can work. AdSense less so, of course, as it's a way to earn pennies only while giving people a way to leave your site rather than staying there. This is true, but my guess is that that's only a very small part of the reason for the problem, here. See my post above for how I "cloak" all my hoplinks. (There are other ways, I just use the easiest for a non-techie chick like me). Yes, not necessarily "immediately obvious", I agree. I can't help wondering two things, here:- 1. How are you selecting the CB products to promote? And are you "reviewing" them on your site? (That might help a lot). 2. Have you thought about other, non-CB, ways of monetizing this traffic? No compulsion, of course, but it will help everyone to advise you if you show us your blog, you know? And Al will enjoy it, for a start ...
I personally would not use clickbank on a high traffic blog. If you're averaging 300,000 monthly visitors there's better ways to monetize your traffic, clickbank in this case is one of the worst options for several strong reasons. (find advertisers that are interested to buy private ads on your blog) If you're a model, then I am sure you'll attract a lot of brands to advertise on your site. The products in clickbank might be related/targeted to your content, however the ads/banners aren't as targeted as for your average visitor. You'll only get a high conversion rate for clickbank products when people visit your site through the search engines. i.e use targeted keywords to find your content/landing pages. In your case, if it's a blog (a small community) then it's pretty normal to see such low conversion rates. All you can do is to test different products and see which one works best for you. Can I see your blog, might be able to make a few suggestions @Alexa Why would I not enjoy a young model's blog? Al.
I think this might be very good and very appropriate advice from Al, here. You should perhaps think about other monetization-methods? I don't say you won't be able to make it work with Clickbank, but it requires quite a lot of knowledge and experience and judgment, and other ways might be easier, and perhaps better suited to your traffic, too? (Fashion industry stuff, perhaps?)
dear freind if you will promote this product, you are wating your traffic man. Try some good conversion products. i really cant imagine this much traffic you have already wasted. change it immediately.
Maybe you can consider using commission junction or amazon affiliate programs so you can get highly targeted offers such as magazine subscriptions, books, make up etc that are related to your blog. Or even possibly zip submit cpa offers if you do get approved by a cpa network. There are many zip submit offers available for Mac make-up etc. Depending on the layout of your blog you can possibly insert a "latest news section" and have your offer placed there as well.
I started promoting CJ products and have made just over $200 so far in less than 24 hours almost 10K with CB and not even 1 sale, seemed very weird to be honest!!! But ya, ill stick with CJ for a while
i ahve booked marked all those site and will WILL!! read them this coming weekend!!! if you have anything else let me know!!!