just one question? for people like me who doesn't have any blog (not intend to have the blog) and dont have any landing page, can I still use PPC and land directly to the hop link of Clickbank?
Yep you can do that, but landing pages are better because you can list only the benefits and convince the visitors to buy, instead of forcing them to read the lon-long sales page/letter that will probably not convince them too much. People don't like to read a lot of crap, that's why they prefer to see only how can the product help them with using a few sentences.
This will not work out well for you. At this point you need to have your own landing pages. All of the CB products that make money will have competition on PPC and will already have someone else linking directly to the site. You'll get into a bidding war and you'll lose money. Plus you can make more money using landing pages. Not only will your conversions be higher but you can also see some SEO success (sometimes without even trying too hard for it.)
yeah, u can always do that even without landing page. You also can redirect the domain to the link of clickbank. i did it before but i's hard to market unless u do the ppc program
you dont NEED a landing page. But you should atleast have your own domain. This is because google will only show one listing per domain and if there are multiple affiliates promoting on adwords you may miss out on a lot of searches you can just buy a domain related to the product and cloak the link with the code below: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>insert your title here</title> </head> <frameset rows="100%,*" border="0"> <frame src="http://xxxxxx.merchant.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=xxxxxx" frameborder="0" /> <frame frameborder="0" noresize /> </frameset> <!-- pageok --> <!-- 06 --> <!-- 7.0--> </html> hope this helps you
I would really like to know more about this. I Personally test which one is more effective, and that includes ads/CTR/Conversion rate everything. I usually find that Landing Pages work best, and I'm not just talking about when theres alot of competition. Anyone else test a product Side-By-Side like this and found Direct Linking a winner. interested...
thanks a bunch to alls!, btw, I really have no clue how can i create a great landing page. Any suggestion here for a non marketer background dude. Toby
Isn't this against googles TOS. Plus doesn't clickbank offer code that will disable this "trick", something to do with frame breaking.
"cloak the link with the code below" It's not necessary to cloak the link Simply do a redirect from your domain to merchant's page via your hoplink and that's all. P.S. Landing pages are better then direct linking.
Hey everybody. Instead of starting a whole new thread asking just this one question I sneak it in here. Im going to buy a generic domain name, for which I can create lots of sub-domains on for landing pages to different products. Any downsides to doing this at all ? (going to only use ppc and adwords) thanks for answers
Malmsteen - the only problem is that the domain might not be "catchy" enough for the PPC ads and less trustworthy (for example I'd trust Hypnosis.AwesomeDigitalStuff.com less than www.HypnosisMasters.com). But don't let it turn you down, it's possible. I do it, and it works. nadavs
Malmsteen, yes you can do that. I have had some success doing something similar. But I do agree with nadavs, it's probably a bit better for conversion to have it on a domain directly related to the product.
Im confused are you saying, if i'm selling someone elses product I need a landing page too, although they go through this and then through the persons sale pitch?
Yep, since most of the products sales pages are too long and ugly, creating your own landing page is better, because you can convince your visitors to buy the product explaining briefly why should they buy it. Also, if you are good at SEO, you could also get some extra sales from the search engine traffic and you could possibly outrank the original product site, equaling more sales and money for you.
Will this actually increase conversation rate alot? Im just wondering that people leave when visiting he saes pitch, and then leave when on the product.(low ctr, even tho cr might be higher)...plus you expect them to scroll through the pitch looking for the BUY NOW text or something? ?
So do people make their own landing pages for article marketing or does anyone ever use it for ppc or anything else, as well And just so I'm clear, what makes for the best kind of landing page that converts? Then you make your own hoplink which directs to the page where they actually buy, bypassing the long sales page?
So if you use a landing page, you have to click through 2 sales pitches? The first is your landing page with your sales pitch and the second is the product page with the long sales pitch? Wouldn't this be one more step in the process and another risk point where you may lose the customer?
Your job on the landing page is not sell. If you try to sell - you lose. The customer won't go through two sales pitches and say "Thank you". He'll leave when he clicks the affiliate link and realizes he's in another sales pitch. You need to pre-sell - make the potential customer confident and ready for the sales page. Give him a review, show him the products in the niche you promote (but still make sure he'll know exactly which one to choose), explain about the topic. In other words - give some content. That can increase conversions beyond imagination. nadavs
I thought the point of creating your own landing page was so that you don't have to go to the crappy original sales page that the product owner created, but rather make your own, explain the product, review it, pros and cons, all that, just like the original page did only better, then provide a link to buy if they like it which takes them to the check out page of the original owner, thereby bypassing their crappy sales page. I'm sure I've got it wrong as i've never done it myself but am looking to start, so if someone could clarify i'd appreciate it.
Yeah me too here, ive just started too, i thought thats exactly what it was for... So nadavs what you are saying is, making a page with your logo etc endorsing the product with exactly how it helps them, short n sweet, then send em to the sales page for final persuation?