Hi everyone, After reading several ebooks and reading about people's success with direct linking with clicbank I went ahead and tried it, only to be disappointed I could really use your help. Here is what I did. I picked a few niche products on clickbank, new products to be exact. That don't have much competition or ANY for that matter. I typed the relevant keywords on google and saw hardly or no competition. So i thought direct linking could work. I bought domain names and forwarded them to my clickbank affiliate links. Then I used word tracker to set up a keyword list. To my surprise when i set up my Google Adwords campaign the minimum bid was $2.50 or $5.00 and quality score market as poor. I was so confused. I thought there wasn't competition. Why is Google asking me to pay such a CPC? I can't possibly afford that. Any suggestions?
That is the whole Point of a quality score. You need a good landing page that is of quality. If you are just redirecting the aff link then, the same can be done by the original seller without having to go to clickbank... You need to a create a good landing page with an about page, contact form, sitemap on every page, 10-15 pages of unique content etc and from there only you can send the visitors by a second click...
sitemap, in essence, is just a one page that contains links to ALL pages. it can get more complicated than that if you want to, but that's about the main thing...