Anyone making money in the pet niche?

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by Lotos1, Oct 6, 2009.

  1. #1
    I chose 2 products in the pet niche to promote (not like there is much to choose from :() and made a banner for one and for the other used the banner provided. I get several hundred visitors a day on one of my sites, but so far after 5 days, I got 15 hops and no sales. I placed the banners in the prime locations, top, and on the side that are visible as soon as the page is opened. I'm not using any landing pages for this, just banners on my existing site. Is anybody making any money with ClickBank in the pet niche at all? I want to know so that I can move on and remove those banners since they take up a lot of room on my page.
     
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  2. Ripped

    Ripped Well-Known Member

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    15 hops is nothing, you need more than that.

    You need to a few hundred targeted hops in order to make any conclusions.

    As far as the pet niche is concerned, sitstayfetch has been on the top of that niche for years so I assume it's selling well, so you should try sitstayfetch
     
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  3. Lotos1

    Lotos1 Peon

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    Yes, I'm promoting that product but it's called differently now. They don't have a lot of variety in the pet niche so that one I believe everyone is promoting. :) So, lets say I need 200 hops on average to make a sale. That would mean that at this rate I need to wait 65 days to make a sale. That just isn't worth it. I would probably get more if I went out on the street right now and begged for money! ;)
     
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    Ripped Well-Known Member

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    You need better targeting, you need a proper landing page rather than some banners.

    Drive targeted traffic closely related to the product. If you drive more traffic, you'll make more money.

    I'm sure you can convert at, at least 1:50 with proper traffic. So if you drive 100 visitors per day, and make 2 sales per day.. that would be 65$ per day.
     
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  5. rjd1265

    rjd1265 Active Member

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    i made good money with Complete Cat training but then it tailed off so i gave it up.

    15 hops is way to low to judge now. You need a good 500 to determine. If 3-5 sales, then a good niche and if only 1 sale, give it up.

    Is your site pet related? Your using just banners. If you have a site about Skin Care and banner of pet health, then you will not get targeted traffic.

    What are you using for traffic? PPC or SEO..article marketing????
     
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  6. Lotos1

    Lotos1 Peon

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    Cats can be trained? :D I thought they were too smart to listen to humans. Anyways, yes, the traffic I get is more-or-less targeted. My site is in the pet niche so yes the banners I placed target that audience. So far, I'm getting search engine traffic and traffic from other websites. I used PPC until recently, but gave up for now as it was too expensive and did not make me any money.
     
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    He doesn't need a landing page from the banner. People are already at his site and trust him.

    What he does need is a lot of traffic.
     
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    chicokid Peon

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    With clickbank products getting 50-1 or even 100-1 is pretty good sales ratio. You need more traffic, as others have already suggested.
     
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    mlord10 Peon

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    I have never had much success with banner ads. For me, it is more about sending someone to a review page, and recommending a product. Banner ads have never converted well for me, because no matter where the traffic is coming from I do not think it will convert as well as a standard landing page that does a review. Some people may have other opinions and experience, this is just mu thoughts:)
     
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    Ditto, you need to direct them to the site and why they should get the product not just a flashy graphic
     
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    Pets thats a good niche. Had an idea awhile back to do pet insurance.
     
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    i suggest you send traffic to review page
     
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    Some beggars make good money. But that's hard work. Easier to figure out how to sell crappy CB products to the sheeple.
     
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    It's always better to have an individual landing page for each product and bring as much targeted traffic as you can instead of placing a "Dog Training Ebook" on a website that is basically about Dog Breeding.

    It won't be as targeted. Hope this helps. You can get thousands of daily visitors but really if they are not interested in "Dog Training" you won't get any sales.

    Al.
     
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    dhana1978 Peon

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    Give the site link, you will get some good suggestion from members..
     
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    Lotos1 Peon

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    How would I bring targeted traffic to this landing page without using PPC? It would take months using free methods and the traffic will still not be high enough. Even if I made a landing page, I believe it is repetitive since the publisher of the e-book already has a nice landing page of their own. In my banner, it already says what I'm promoting, so if someone is interested in this type of product they will click the banner and visit the publisher's landing page. I'm just saying that a lading page in my case without any PPC advertising will not help me much.
     
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    It's a popular niche and very saturated already. However, it does not make much money like I thought it would and it is very hard to get traffic using free methods. The only way I see people making any serious money in this niche is if they sell some unique product, and I'm not talking about digital products, but physical products. I do not have money to start my own product, but I see that as one of the only ways of making a living in this niche.
     
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    dog training is a very competitive and saturated niche. I don't recommend it. Try anything else, from dog food to dog house plans..though none converted for me
     
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    I know. I don't know what products to promote anymore. ClickBank only has a few products in the pet niche worth promoting and that seem to be getting some sales according to their gravity. What about Commission Junction? Anyone has success with them promoting pet products? Right now I'm just brainstorming. I would try any affiliate network as long as I can make some money from it and make sales. I can create my own banners and landing pages so that's not a problem. I just need to know with what network people are having success in this niche.
     
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    thank you guys. I now see why my advertisement does not bring in sales. It's about saturation. I will look for products that has a small keyword hits and unsaturated. But just looking is difficult already. Well, so said it was going to be easy anyway.
     
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