I've been thinking about doing article marketing with ClickBank. I'm pretty good at writing and have no problems get into EZA. But I think I should send people from EZA article to the sales page. I can get around the EZA restriction by setting up a php redirect on my web server. Is this just a waste of time?
It's really a matter of personal preference but if I were you I'd split test and see which does better - landing page or direct link. I've got maybe one campaign setup on direct link myself. I haven't seen it work as well as using a landing page but it could very well be different in whatever niche you choose to promote so I would highly recommend split testing and going with which one converts best.
Yeh, the general consensus seems to be that it works better if you build landing pages, review sites, squeeze/opt-in pages first rather than sending direct to vendor, but if you really want to do it to test a campaign before you set everything up then EZA do allow it, but only through a redirect on a top level domain. Here are their terms: EzineArticles.com Editorial Guidelines: (AFFILIATE PROGRAMS): Affiliate links will be allowed if the link is a domain name you own which forward/redirects to the affiliate link from the top-level of the domain name. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from: http://your-company-name.com/ ...but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from: http://your-company-name.com/page.html http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/ http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/ Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will cause the article to be rejected. As seen on: http://ezinearticles.com/editorial-guidelines.html
Yup. And believe me they will reject your article in a heartbeat. And often times won't tell you why it was rejected. EZA is a major pain in the ass. But aside from that little rant, I'd highly recommend using a landing page of some sort. Direct linking just doesn't work nearly as well. It doesn't convert very well at all.
I haven't been rejected when doing this, I did it as an affiliate myself back when testing the conversion rate for our program. Must of published 50-60 articles over the course of 2 months all like this - with 3 different domains to forward to different pages with different TIDs on to represent different types of article (wanted to publish it all in a case study but then messed the stats up by testing our link generating system and created waaay too many hop stats and then had to do a couple of test payments and messed it up again so never bothered , such a waste ) and they all got accepted first time though and are still live.. Youre right, I know only a few minutes ago I said it might be worthwhile doing it like this as a test.. but it wouldn't really be a test anyway as if it "passed" the test then you would probably get a different conversion rate if you were to setup quality blogs, pages, mailing lists anyway.. the "test" probably wouldnt show that much and you might even miss out on decent programs that would convert if you just put them through a better quality review page / signed em up to your list..
I know how to do it - I can write it in PHP without wasting the domain on a redirect. I'm gonna setup the domain tonight. I just want to get some steady income coming in. Tired of drifting from one shiny object to the next. I think I might start another "Click Bank Journal" thread. I keep fuxoring up - at the very least it'll be amusing to see me post for a few days and then fall off the face of the planet ;-) I've made 2 sales in ClickBank. Spent $100 in adwords advertising (free coupon). Oh well, least I gotta semi-decent job during the day - we'll see how this goes! WOO HOO!