So I'm thinking about starting to to article marketing with Clickbank. How exactly does this work? Obviously I need to write an article, but how to I get them to go through the hoplink? Do I have to build a separate landing page to refer them to it, or do I just put the URL to the hoplink in the article? I'm sort of trying to standardize this for Ezine Articles, but others too that probably share the same rules. And for landing pages, what exactly is a landing page? Is it just a website that I put information about the product on and try to lead them to the hoplink, or something else? Are most landing pages hosted on domains? Or is there a better, free way to do it? What is the most efficient way to article market?
There are two types of article marketers. The first kind sends traffic from the article straight to the hoplink and the sales page. On EzineArticles, it can only be done with a redirecting domain, since no affiliate links are allowed. The second kind directs traffic to a landing page and works on the prospect from there. Landing pages are the pages on which the user lands (surprising) after clicking your link. They have many shapes and forms. Some landing pages are brief and mainly provide some benefits and ask the user to click a huge button to go on. Others contain some more pre-sell information that is supposed to help the visitor make a decision of buying. Another type of landing page is a squeeze page, and its purpose is collecting email addresses. You can use any type you want (or simply redirect to the hoplink with a domain). It all depends on your campaign's targets. Also, it is better to host your landing pages on your own domain. It looks more professional that way. How would you think if I sent you to nadavs.somefreehost.com/mysite ? Would you buy? I guess not. Good luck, nadavs
USFreeAds is a great additional place to post your content... good ranking in the search engines for tight niche's and great exposure due to it's high pagerank and high traffic Jay
Also one way to do it is to make a blog and keep posting uniqe articles to it. Slowly, but surely you are building up ranks in google and will get steady traffic for months to come.
^^ Word up. In my opinion, blogging is the #1 way to start seeing high search engine rankings quickly, and there's no restriction to affiliate links or whatever. I say invest in a hosting account and get a domain and install wordpress. My blog is a Pagerank 2, so that's like a PR2 article directory, except with way better SEO.