Ok, so I am very new at promoting clickbank products. I am very determined to make money through this affiliate program, but I need some guidance. I am promoting three products right now. I wrote an article on each product and sent them all to about 6 different article bases. I know I do not have nearly enough hops to make a sale yet, but I would like to know, for how many article websites I submitted my articles to, am I getting a decent amount of hops. And is it true that the more article websites I submit them to, the more hops I will get? Right now, my average is about 10-15 hops a week. I KNOW that is barely anything, but I want to know if you guys think that is decent considering I've only sent my articles to about 6 or so article sites. I know that some article sites attract much more traffic than others, and I think most of the sites I submitted my articles to are reputable sites. I want to set goals, but I want to know that they are possible to reach but purely writing articles. Do you guys think that if I sent my articles to about 20 more article sites, I would get double or more hops than i'm getting now? Currently I do not have very many order form impressions, I'm not sure if that's good or bad. How well are others doing with article advertising for CB products, and about how many article sites have you submitted your articles to ? Sorry for writing so much, and i'll greatly appreciate any feedback. Thanks
Oh yeah, one out of three of my products is a very competetive product (mistake I made early on) but the other two have a low gravity between 20-50. Also, my articles have keywords lightly sprinkled throughout them and I include the hoplink in the resource box or at the end of my article. I have made domain names that are relative to my products instead of using the actualy CB hoplink provided. One of my products is about fixing an Xbox 360 and the domain name that is linked to the sales page is something similar to fixmy360guide.info.
Well... it's not as simple as you may suppose it is, right now. Some examples: 10-15 hops per week certainly is better than nothing, but you have to look further into your CB analytics to understand the quality of this traffic you're getting in. At this point you probably had a total 100 hops, right? From this number, was there a significant amount of Order Form Impressions? If so, that indicates your landing page is doing its job; if you're just getting hops and the visitors don't proceed further in the sales cycle, then it means something is off with your landing page. On another angle, you certainly need to increase your daily hop count; to this effect, don't just write articles at random... you have to understand what's working so you can focus there. Most often, you'll realize that 20% of your pages bring in 80% of the traffic (this is known as the 20/80 rule)! Try to understand where your traffic is actually coming from and maximize that traffic. (hint: it's most likely *not* coming from internal articlesbase traffic, but rather from a specific article that is getting organic traffic for a specific keyword). For example, upon closer analysis you may realize that most of your hops are coming from a single article, that happened to rank naturally in position #9 for its main keyword. Focus on building links to that article so it climbs to #1, and your traffic will climb more easily than if you just go down the brute force path (writing lots of articles at random). In short, don't just worry about working hard... that is certainly important, but not as much as working *smart*.
Just to clearify a little. Order form impressions are not orders. Just means they were interested enough to procees to the order page. Many vendors send you traffic off to a squeez page and collect the email address before presenting them an order page and this is not a bad thing. You will just need to expect fewer order impressions from this type of traffic.
It is not the number of hops that you need to make sales now what matters is, are you targeting the right audience to make your sale. Also make sure you write unique articles and submit them to article directories. Do not post same article on different directories.