Why don't many clickbank products use squeeze pages? I have a subscription website and with my ppc traffic send everyone to a squeeze page. They then go through an autoresponder series and I end up with about a 3-4% conversion rate within 4 weeks. I'm thinking of putting my site on clickbank but am worried that because I'm using a squeeze pages and it looks like other clickbank products aren't potential affiliates will be scared away, because it will look different than what they are used to.
Because affiliates hate publishers that use them. They steal affiliates commisions and work. Think about it. we send them the traffic and they put in there email and then later get the customer to buy, but instead of paying the affiliates they put in a no affiliate link
Wow, so you think it would be about impossible to attract affiliates for my product? I've been running my site for over 8 years and I know that a simple sales page gets fraction of a conversion than an opt-in page and autoresponder series. A publisher who steals the commissions would be an idiot as you need to have the affiliates making money to make an affilaite program work. Some of the biggest clickbank products though have opt-in forms on their sales pages, like the stock trading robot. Do you think it would be possible to still get my site to work with a squeeze page if it showed good history in the clickbank stats - good gravity etc?
Actually this is very interesting - it makes me think that the conversion rate affilaites get for the traffic they send is extremely low and few are probably making any money. I know when I had sales pages without opt-in I'd get like a low .10% - .25% conversion rate versus the rate over ten times as much now. Some of the sales pages have opt-ins, but they aren't that emphasized so the opt-in rate is going to be low - 5% or so.
You'll get mixed views on this one Mike. Ultimately, you must decide if you're going to be in the affiliate business for yourself or for your affiliates. I have numerous programs and some use opt-ins but most don't. My opinion is not as relevant as my affiliates. Scrubbing leads to monetize on the 60 day cookie for your affiliates is a good thing over all, however affiliates are justifiably and undeniably opposed to giving you the chance to monetize them downstream, you know, like 8 years later Basically in the big picture your affiliates are building your list incrementally while you tease them with initial earnings and a good honest joe approach - which I commend however again, I give my affiliates what they want because I'm in this business for them. **Also to note - all of my pages that do NOT have optins, pop-ins, talking people, are converting at 3-13% << So I challenge your extreme with mine - it's half on your shoulders and half on the affiliates - some convert much better than others. It's not to say you won't attract affiliates, you probably will, many of them, however they are all/most going to be newbies and or interms - further - no BIG affiliates will ever drop your site to their email lists if you are going to scrub their list/sendout, even if you make them customized pages. Perhaps you should hide a page with your squeeze and continue your PPC efforts to it, but leave the public site opt-in free... Some marketers want to monetize NOW - so optin or not, if you pay good commission they will milk your program for what it's worth quietly, however to sustain true automation and naturally grow your program with the bigger players, they must feel rewarded, secure, close, and transparent with you. Best of luck whichever route you take, and welcome to the CB publishing world Norb.
I didn't realize it only lasts 60 days - that makes a difference. I wonder if most big affiliates are that opposed to opt-in pages and squeeze pages. Some big sites like the double your dating site are built around that and I notice a few affiliate products that do have them in the dating niche. That's a great conversion rate you are getting, but when I look at that vast majority of the sales pages in the clickbank marketplace I can't see how they can get much of a conversion rate at all and I know that in general doing an opt-in and then using an autoresponder works so much better. Maybe it would be best to have an option - affiliates could either use the squeeze page or just a sales page - but from the looks of it it looks like clickbank will only let you refer affiliates to one page?