I'm new with clickbank, i just need a bit of a guidance if my understanding is correct based from your experience. 1.After you've become a member with CB and found a product you want to promote, you have to create hoplink to this product. The hoplink brings you to the sales page of the publisher? 2.Your aim now is to have a landing page = web page = squidoo lense that will presell the product you are marketing and hopefully the customer clicks on your hoplink. And hopefully too, once he is on the sales page, he decides to buys the product that has got your affiliate id on it so you earn some commission. Is this correct? 3.But before this, you have to find a way to get the customers to visit your landing page which can be done through article links=adword campaign=signature links. Is this correct? How effective is the landing or pre-sell page? Is is better to direct the customers to the hoplink or sales page directly to shorten the process or this doesn't work? Can you put hoplinks to your adword campaign? Is article writing/marketing more effective in the long run rather than marketing through forums and bringing users to your website or pre-sell page? Sorry for the long question. Hopefully you can share your thoughts on this. Thank you in advance.
Using a Squidoo lens to promote a single Clickbank product can be an effective method. Another way is to make a lens aboiut a physical product (eg iPod) and then add a module with a related Clickbank product (eg iPod downloads).
1. Correct 2. You can do either a pre-sells page or link directly to the product site using the hop link. You can even link directly to the Clickbank shopping cart page for the site. The link to the product shopping cart would look something like this [http://1.XXXX.SiteName.hop.clickbank.net] where you replace the XXXX with your affiliate code. 3. Correct. I think the most effective and fastest way to promote is to build a mailing list with co-regisgtration and then send email promotions to that list for your affiliate products. Articles are free but are slow and not as scalable. Adwords provides instant traffic but can be expensive depending on the niche. Good luck!
I've honestly had more success direct linking to the sales page. Cloaking with my own URL though, of course. Having your own URL also builds your own brand identity. Say someone purchases the product you promote through your custom URL. They'll tell their friends, "Yeah, I bought xxxx on xxxx.com last night, it's awesome!" which can lead to more and more sales.
i've been reading for the past week about CB and from what i can understand so far the landing site has to be preaty much like the publisher's site, trying to make the product sound good. is this corect or can you promote your hoplink in different ways, meaning is the landing page absolutely necesary?