Hi everyone, I am new to ClickBank. I have a lot of questions in my mind. All gurus here, please teach me. 1. How to promote ClickBank products? 2. Can I sell it using website? 3. Can I create a website and write a sales letter to promote it? 4. Can I place the hoplink in AdWords and promote it? 5. What type of products are good to sell? 6. If I created a website to promote the product, can I use the image on the main site of the product? Please help me. I am really confused with ClickBank.
1) Read this forum, this is explained many times 2) Sure 3) Sure 4) Sure, although using your own domain name usually works better 5) Start with someone with gravity above 50 6) Usually - contact the vendor to be sure
I disagree with two of the answers in the post above. No, you can't. This breaches Adwords terms and conditions and your ad would either be rejected or removed. It even breaches the terms of service to use a top-level domain which automatically forwards browsers to your hoplink ("EZA style"). You have to have a web site/page/blog in-between the two (which you should want anyway: it would be extremely difficult to make a profit from an Adwords campaign linking directly to a vendor's sales page, as well as impossible to build your own list that way!). Products that have (in this order of importance):- 1. A sales-page that converts well 2. No obvious "sales-page leaks" (this is to ensure that you actually get paid as high a proportion of what you're due as Clickbank's affiliate-tracking system will allow - though that will never be 100%. The classic example of a "sales page leak" is a vendor's opt-in on the sales page - avoid these) 3. A good product that doesn't have a high proportion of refunds and that it won't do your reputation as an affiliate any harm to be promoting 4. Something you can write about (articles and/or reviews on your own blog/site, as a pre-sell) 5. Something with high earnings per sale (from either a high price or a high commission-rate or some combination of the two) 6. Something without a high gravity figure. Don't make the mistake of imagining that "gravity" measures either conversion-rates or sales made. It doesn't, and it doesn't pretend to. The one thing that's for sure is that high gravity products (as Clickbank openly states in their own description of "gravity") are the most competitive ones to sell, and if you don't want to be up against lots of professional affiliates with huge Adwords budgets for promotion, stay away from them (it took me a long time to learn this and I became successful only after I learned it). I'm not suggesting you should choose products with zero gravity, but I'm doing well at the moment with products of gravities in single figures, these can be very easy to market. For myself, I'm not attracted at all to high gravity products and I very strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of people who become Clickbank affiliates and never earn anything and eventually drop out in disillusionment (and that's an awful lot of people) are those who have taken the "advice" to try high gravity products. This subject is discussed in several threads here and in many conversations in other forums. Good luck!
1. Way too general, read around on this forum you'll find plenty of info. 2. Yes you Can 3. Yes You Can 4. Yes You Can 5. There are many niches that are profitable. Pick anything that has at least 20 gravity. I prefer higher gravity products, but some people prefer lower gravity once, both can be very profitable.
No, Alexa, I think you are wrong. Of course you can promote Clickbank products with direct links. I myself have already done that several times. However, be careful with this, most products will get much better conversion rates if you use a pre-sell page (story or review). Anyway, if the vendor's website is good and has content realeted to the keywords you are bidding on, Google will not give you low QS. Google is not as easy to deal as MSN or Yahoo!, but they are not a nightmare at all... I think that they just want to make sure that their users will not be flooded with bad content, and it make them the best search engine.
Thanks very much for the correction/update. This one has changed, then, since I read the terms of service, and since my Adwords book was printed (no great surprise, though)! For sure. Good point - PPC automatically conjures up images of Google, but of course there are MSN and Yahoo too, and plenty of people using them.
I think Alexa covered everything you needed. In my opinion,article marketing is the best thing you can do in the beginning(If you have budget then you can also try your hands in PPC marketing) and once you earn enough money through it,enter into PPC.Then you can easily scale up your campaigns as you already know which keyword combination is working best.