Lots of accusations flying around lately, but I am almost 100% sure the problems with low sales are not related to clickbank. Evidence Exhibit A: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=729068 Swerd reports that 2 identical adwords campaigns (exact match), one has horrible conversions, one has nice conversions Evidence Exhibit B: Although I am a vendor, I do all my selling through a separate affiliate account VIA hoplink. With relatively equal traffic, my referral sales are better than January by about 15% and equal to other months. I run no Adwords ads, and all traffic is ALL Organic. Evidence Exhibit C: Although there are discrepancies, most affiliates with organic traffic only are either not noticing a difference, or only a minimal difference (which could be normal fluctuation). It's starting to look like Google is once again adjusting things to prevent people from making "Easy Money" as they have done many times in the past. I mentioned in another post that low sales may be from new cookie blocking programs, but after reevaluating, I think that cookie blocking has minimal effects. I would like some honest situations from people who rely on Adwords, and who rely on Organic traffic. If we report honest information, maybe we can spot a trend. Remember, Honest information (even if it doesn't support your theory) is the only way to pinpoint the problem
I get traffic from AdWords, and I got a sale yesterday (but no sales for the three days before). I direct traffic to my own landing page which has reviews and clocked links. nadavs
From My tracking, I don't think there are some problem with GG, All my traffic has consistent and there are no big change of the traffic from GG. All the the search terms and keywords don't change. Though today I have catch a search term come with one of my negative keyword, but 99% search term is under my control and obey my campaign configure. Though I do think that gg send more worse traffic to my site, but from my tracking the search terms and the keywords there are no big evidence for me to blame GG. Sorry, I keep the keywords and search terms of myself.
Cookies probably is not the cause, however, I still suspect that sales are lost due to ClickBank cookies showing up as spybots/adware and are removed. Go to Clickbank, click on a product, than run Spybot and see what shows up. Google has really clamped down on keyword relevance. Make sure your keywords in your ad are on your landing page etc. While this has always helped in the past, it looks like it is a "MUST" now. Zeek
maybe.. if your daily campaign budget is bigger then what google can deliver using your set keywords they will start to give dodgy traffic? however, even I dont beleive what Im saying lol
my sales have been very low at times.. i think its just a bad day with sales even though i get almost the same amount of clicks everyday.. but maybe not the same amount of people looking to buy something..my 2 cents!