Several of us have contacted Clickbank and their response is the same every time: there's nothing wrong on their end, it's the economy, all affiliates experience fluctuations in sales, blah blah blah. Especially suspicious is the fact that most of us will get a sale that same day right after we complain to CB! But I'm glad to see things are finally turning around for some people. Hopefully the same will happen for me soon.
Just to let you all know there's been a post like this at least every month here since I started clickbank about a year ago. And the last 16 days are nothing unusual for me, in fact its so average its kind of scary. There are so many factors as to why your sales may fluctuate I think its poor business practice to blame it on clickbank and not try to solve the issue. It could be anything from poor economy, wrong season, better products in your niches, increased competition, etc. You need to be dynamic with your marketing in affiliate programs, what worked yesterday may not work today. Especially if you promote only a few products, many products decline and lose popularity. I had to move totally away from my two most profitable niches that I started with.
Right! So let's see, what your saying is that we're wrong. So many people have hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of clicks and no conversions. Even if it is targeting the right audience, targeting during the rich season and in the right niche. One with HIGH gravity! Unfortunately, even with all this correct targeting, there is not much conversion. In my opinion, ClickBank has been having issues like this all along and seem to go through products like pairs of socks. In short, ClickBank is to blame. Sure not in all cases but where is their support when you need them. Why the magic burst of sales when someone contacts them, etc. etc.
What you're saying makes sense, but it doesn't make it right. Are you tryign to say I screwed up some where in a matter of days? Like how the hell do I go from consistently the most profitable weeks of my business online ever, to a week of zeros? Just run that by me. I get so pissed off because everything is flowing on my part correctly and I email CB out of desperation. 6 minutes after they respond to my email, the gravy train starts again. It goes for a few days consistently. Back to the zeros. Just run this by me.
It's Clickbank, trust me. I've been with them for years too, and most of the time they're good and okay but every 1-2 months something like this happens and we all have low sales for a month or so. I stopped spending any money on Clickbank 6 months ago. I just use free traffic now and focus on real affiliate networks.
For all of you guys having trouble, it may actually be the merchant product. I went from 1-3 sales a day to nothing for 2 weeks. I switched products and am now back to 1-3 sales almost immediately. There is no question there had to have been something wrong with the product I was selling.