Been a Clickbank affiliate for about 18 months and doing OK in affiliate revenue, over $800 last week (best week yet, normally don't make that a month). I only promote products I've used and think are worth buying (could make much more if I didn't care what I promoted). I'm apparently a slow learner since it was only yesterday I realised the SEO/AdSense WordPress themes I sell at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/ could be sold through Clickbank, doh! So going to start selling them through Clickbank. This will be my first try as a Clickbank publisher and looking for info on how to set things up with Clickbank. Currently I take orders through PayPal only (could take credit cards as have a merchant type account for my main business: SEO services). It's small scale currently (hobby type business) where a customer orders through PayPal, I get the payment notification and I email the zipped theme to them. Usually a couple of orders a day, (though been a little slow lately: 1 sale a day) so only takes a few mins to admin. I give free updates for the life of the product (that would be as long as the themes work in WordPress/AdSense without a complete rewrite: years I'd guess). So when there's an update I email the new theme zip to all customers for free. Also offer basic support through the site and by email, you can see on the info/sales pages a lot of customer comments. http://www.google-adsense-templates...talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html has 45 comments for example. Been meaning to automate the download, but not got to it yet. Anyway, so looking for a guide of how to setup a product like this with Clickbank (don't mind paying). Also would this be the sort of product anyone here would promote? I'm currently selling the most popular themes for £20 each, so would add them to Clickbank for $40 with a 50% revenue share. I don't do the spammy sales pages you see with most Clickbank products, the quality of the product speaks for itself, you will not find a better SEO'd WordPress theme online (mine are the best, period). AdSense wise there's other AdSense ready WordPress themes as good, (though maybe not as easy to use, add your publisher ID to one file and it's ready to go) but SEO wise they are the best by far. You can see the themes in use on my sites in the sig below. I made the themes originally for my use, had them available so sold them. David Law
If you're going to promote to clickbank.. The I suggest you to immediately remove the blogroll links as well as the adsense ads. Because traffic might leak out, and affiliates won't like that. I think that there would be people interested in this, there is a large amount of bloggers who could use such item. Your products seem of high quality, I would suggest you to design a proper landing page and I wish you good luck
Have a look at Clickbank products. They all use so called "mini sites". Nice header, effective sales, ebook covers, and closing header. In other words, blog is not a solution.
Thanks for the feedback, will probably have to create new pages for Clickbank since the current pages are designed primarily to pull in organic search engine traffic more than to sell a product (not much point having a great sales page if you have no traffic) so pleasing affiliates wasn't in my mindset when I created the site (never offered an affiliate product before). The site has AdSense on it as it uses one of the AdSense/SEO themes, so it's an example of what a site looks like when running one of the themes. Appreciate affiliates don't like to see AdSense and similar ads on the sales pages, I've skipped over promoting affiliate products for that reason. Fortunately not an issue removing ads from the theme, there's a very easy way to disable the ads without having to edit any code. So the themes can be used for SEO reasons only (no AdSense). David Law
David, I take it you're in the UK? If you'd be willing to talk about how you got such a huge increase in affiliate sales (I'm making about the same as your "before" situation) then I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about setting up as a publisher. I have 3 products on CB. Not hugely successful ones but I know the publisher setup inside out. Let me know by PM and I'll send you my phone number (I can call you back and pay for the call). cheers
LOL Yes I'm in the UK. I don't have a problem telling you here what you want to know. I added more Clickbank product reviews (real reviews, used the product) and one of the new products was a hit (up to 10 extra sales a day, so not an enormous world shattering hit). All my traffic is organic search, so my real 'secret' (not a secret really) is being able to pull in search engine traffic. Helps being an SEO consultant a little. Good product that people want to buy + well written real review + SEO copyrighting (my area of expertise) + a domain that tends to rank OK when new content is added (old domain with lots of old links: I own several domains like this) = free relevant traffic from search engines that converts well. Not had a great last two days however. From the 5 main products that sell I've had about 370 hops with 6 sales, so about 60 hops a sale (still time to go today, so might improve). The one thing I don't like about CB products is they can be all over the place! One day you'll have a sale every 20 hops, next day it's 80 hops! On the 24th I made over $200 on 299 hops with just over 21 hops per order. For the month I'm at 1 sale for 37 hops. My eldest son has a hop/sale rate of around 1 sale for 16 hops, but gets less traffic than I do: he also reviews the products I've reviewed that sells for me (in other words he does very little ground work, just copies, though he tried Clickbank before I did). Youngest son wrote a review on a Manga drawing product, had over 200 hops and no sales Apparently not the sort of product people are looking to buy, keep telling him to copy me. Don't mind my kids taking my sales, will charge them more rent when they get older Not a big deal for him, he's 12 years old and we are working on a Christmas card project together, he's making a set of Christmas cards (he's a really good artist for 12 years old http://www.caleb-law.com/, the flour animation is really cute) and I'll try to sell them in bulk to supermarkets etc... to see if we can make a few thousand pounds before Christmas (50-50 on the profits with me paying for everything). David Law