How many articles have you written so far, and how many of them are actually online now? What is the visitors count for this articles? Are you also sure you have configured your links correctly? Also, another important thing...which and how many products are you promoting?
Try to drop the price drastically. I have had my product registered with CB and sold it at $47.. I had a good number of JV and brought a good number of traffic, but NO SALES. I lowered the price to $27 but added a couple of OTO, one of which was a Resale Rights of the same product I was selling, and priced it at $67 per copy. Sales started to came in but not as much as I wanted. I lowered the price again to $17, then again to $9. But the purpose of the site is for list building since I was almost practically giving the product away. But the buyer must optin to my list after checkout with CB to get to the download page. Then I can market to my "buyers list" more and more in the future. Just my 2 cent.
@ Michael Price - I think he/she is a affiliate, and not a vendor, therefore the theory of the drop of the price can only be applied to vendors, and not in this case.
I realize a lot of new comers like to use article marketing but many of them fail to make money from it is because -they think keep on writing new articles will make them sales. In your case, you mentioned that 70 articles give you 700 views? that means each article give you 10 views, that's too little traffic. I think it will be better if you rank 1 of your articles to have 700 views rather than 70 articles 700 views.
You need to promote articles really really. 70 articles and 700 hops is shit, better try ppc then. And if you wrote them tha'ts in best case $3 per article. Even more. So already $210+. With that spend on PPC you may be rock, but even if you are dumb to end, it will still give at least 1 sale!!!!
i gues that you will wait a nother month and after that move to other affiliate programs. i stic to clickbank only because from time to time i manage to generate few sales - so this is what keeping me there
I think we really need to know more about your campaigns to be able to offer specific advice. For example... Are your articles linking directly to the affiliate offer? Or are they linking to minisites? Are you building a list? What type of products are you promoting? What sort of keyword research are you doing? And so on. DOn't give up!
Hey you got just 700 views and with 20% URL clicks, that would be just 140 visitors to your site. You got one sale already.
Some products just don't convert well. I had a 3 month stretch where I had 4500 hops and 0 sales. I'm actually going on a 2-week stretch with 600 hops and no sales.
thats bad luck but it happens some industries have bad conversions, maybe if you shared some more information about your marketing campaign some of us can take a look and see whats wrong! Hopefully you can figure out whats wrong
well I have one site in my sig. I also have the backlinks page, and also http://ocddisorder.info/ I have been getting some good organic traffic. I have some great high quality backlinks. Great articles. I don't have an opt in page(don't know how to set it up)
Hi Christine, are you able to say how many hops you've sent over the last 3 months? I know you've got 70 articles, but when you do a report for the last 3 months in Clickbank, actually how many hops have been sent to the merchant? This may give some clues as to whether the problem is the merchant page, or before that. Graeme
The number of sales are proportionaly releated to the product you are selling. When choosing a product you have to carefully analyse the product's gravity, popularity and the most important "The sales page". If the sales page is not well designed and with all the psychology is needed to convice the buyer it will not work. 1- Have a look at the Gravity 2- Have a look at the Popularity 3- Have a look at the sales letter 4- Contact the seller and ask for promotional resources Hope it helps If you need any help let me know and I will be more than happy to help Good Luck Marcelo Bacchi
You need more volume. The truth is, it takes a TON of traffic from a bunch of sources to find the ones that actually work. In other words, you might have one source of traffic that converts at 3% with 1000 clicks a week, and another with 20,000 clicks a week and no sales. It also matters where the traffic is coming from.