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Can Blogger.com be used for promoting Clickbank products?

by troy23
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Generally I use Wordpress, but due to hacks am looking at other ways of creating sites.

I wondered if using the free Blogger.com from Google would be a viable option if I wanted to promote Clickbank products. Or can you not use it for such purposes?
#bloggercom #clickbank #products #promoting
  • Profile picture of the author blackout17
    Dont think your allowed any money making on a free domain. Just host a one then you can do what you wish.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
    Yes you can promote Clickbank products on Blogger sites.

    And you can purchase your domain somewhere like Namecheap.com and redirect it to your blogger site, no problem.

    Go for it, and good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author IBank
    You can definitely use blogger. But be extra careful, put some quality non-spammy info or your blog will be disabled.
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  • Profile picture of the author A3
    Yes you can - Blogger blogs can also be customized very nicely as well, it is possible to place your own banners and adverts etc.

    There are some free designs which are available on the web - a quick Google search should show you some good results.

    As a designer, designs are never a problem for me, but let me know how you get on and if you need any help with anything code-wise or you need a design then hit me up.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      I can hardly believe some of the advice and opinions in this thread. :rolleyes:

      Anyone thinking about using Blogger as their money site to the extent of putting ClickBank affiliate links on it would do well to read this thread slowly and carefully and think about it.

      The more people continue to do this, the more future threads there'll be like this one, in which people report losing parts of their businesses.

      The point is that it's entirely unnecessary to risk using Blogger to do this, when you can so easily do it - also free of charge - at Weebly, Yola, Blinkweb, Byethost, 000WebHost and so many other places without breaching the terms of service, and that way you can own your own site and be in control of your own business.

      These discussions tend to go the same way. Unfortunately, the fact that there really are some people who have got away with doing this, year after year, without ever getting many of their sites deleted, and often without quite appreciating the unnecessary risks they're taking, makes others imagine that "it's a sensible thing to try". :rolleyes:

      The reality is that it makes very little sense, when there are so many other ways of doing it without any of those risks and without spending any money. :rolleyes:

      The "key question" is: however low one's perception of the risk, can it possibly be a wise option to embark on a risky course from which you can benefit, when you can get exactly the same benefits elsewhere instead, without any of the risk?

      A bit of a no-brainer, really, isn't it?
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      • Profile picture of the author troy23
        I realise the issues about the blog getting pulled, especially if you've spent a long time placing content on it. One reason I was looking at it was because I've seen blogger.com blogs rank highly, but can you get a good ranking (depending on your content of course) with Weebly, Yola, Blinkweb, Byethost, 000WebHost? I've yet to see anything from Weebly for example appear in the search results.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

          Affiliate marketing on Blogger is not against the terms of service. Using Blogger primarily to generate traffic to other sites is against their terms of service.

          You can promote CB products on Blogger, but you cannot only promote CB products on Blogger. You have to have actual content that generates traffic to Blogger, which stays on Blogger. It's perfectly fine if you make money when people leave your site, so long as you haven't attracted them there exclusively to make them leave so you'll make some money.
          Yes ... you're absolutely right about all of this. The problem is that - just like some of their other terms of service - they enforce it inconsistently, idiosyncratically and unreliably, they won't discuss it constructively or productively or without contradicting themselves, and they delete first and ask questions later. It's all just unnecessarily risky and silly.

          What sense does it make to risk competititors "flagging" your sites when you can do the same thing elsewhere without any such risks at all? :confused:

          Originally Posted by troy23 View Post

          I've yet to see anything from Weebly for example appear in the search results.
          To me, this is just like the ".info-domains don't rank at the top of Google" argument, Troy. Some people think (in spite of all Google's protestations to the contrary) that that's because they're somehow disadvantaged for SEO, whereas the reality is that (a) some do rank well on Google, and (b) the true explanation is that few marketers are using them for domains they want to rank well, so it's actually evidence (to the extent that it's true at all) of a perception rather than of a reality.

          As so often in internet marketing, it's the attribution of causation that's at fault, here.

          The (alleged) relative paucity of Weebly domains at the top of Google SERP's tells me that the people (like me) using them for their top-ranked sites are redirecting their own domain-names to them, so there isn't a way of knowing (without a who-hosts search) that they're "Weebly sites".

          In other words, it just isn't true.

          I know that some people seem to have a "feeling" that "because Google owns Blogger, that means that sites there 'ought' to rank well". Call me a skepchick but I've never seen any evidence for it at all, and I don't believe a word of it and can't imagine why that would ever be so at all. It's not as if Google has any particular incentive to "fiddle the rankings in Blogspot's favour" at all. Why would yourdomain.com redirected to Blogger rank any more easily than yourdomain.com redirected to Weebly? Nah ... this makes no sense at all. To me, I mean: just my perspective.
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      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        without breaching the terms of service
        Affiliate marketing on Blogger is not against the terms of service. Using Blogger primarily to generate traffic to other sites is against their terms of service.

        You can promote CB products on Blogger, but you cannot only promote CB products on Blogger. You have to have actual content that generates traffic to Blogger, which stays on Blogger. It's perfectly fine if you make money when people leave your site, so long as you haven't attracted them there exclusively to make them leave so you'll make some money.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        I can hardly believe some of the advice and opinions in this thread. :rolleyes:

        Anyone thinking about using Blogger as their money site to the extent of putting ClickBank affiliate links on it would do well to read this thread slowly and carefully and think about it.

        The more people continue to do this, the more future threads there'll be like this one, in which people report losing parts of their businesses.

        The point is that it's entirely unnecessary to risk using Blogger to do this, when you can so easily do it - also free of charge - at Weebly, Yola, Blinkweb, Byethost, 000WebHost and so many other places without breaching the terms of service, and that way you can own your own site and be in control of your own business.

        These discussions tend to go the same way. Unfortunately, the fact that there really are some people who have got away with doing this, year after year, without ever getting many of their sites deleted, and often without quite appreciating the unnecessary risks they're taking, makes others imagine that "it's a sensible thing to try". :rolleyes:

        The reality is that it makes very little sense, when there are so many other ways of doing it without any of those risks and without spending any money. :rolleyes:

        The "key question" is: however low one's perception of the risk, can it possibly be a wise option to embark on a risky course from which you can benefit, when you can get exactly the same benefits elsewhere instead, without any of the risk?

        A bit of a no-brainer, really, isn't it?



        Very interesting... I've never had any problems with Blogger whatsoever, but I have had my Wordpress sites hacked by silly kids, sometimes repeatedly. Blogger is also easier for me, because I didn't have to actually learn anything.

        That being said, blogging and SEO was just a passing fancy for me, and I never took it very seriously, so I would absolutely suggest that anyone reading this take the advice Alexa and CDarklock on this subject.
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  • Profile picture of the author Izzy9
    I would not also risk putting a lot of work on blogger. You can have your own domain name and a cheap host and your work can be pretty secured.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chri5123
    If you are going to use ANY sites or resources that someone else owns you should only use them in conjunction with your OWN sites in my opinion.

    If someone else ultimately owns the site then they can decide to erase all of your work with one click!

    Make sure you are building YOUR business and use other sites to build your business only.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sumdor
    I have been using Blogger.com with custom domains for many years now. And as per Blogger.com policies there is no such conditions that you cannot sell products using their platform. In fact, they even allow you to sell Amazon products. You can also use to sell Clickbank products.
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  • Profile picture of the author ShawnSells
    The comments about using Blogger carefully are good advice. I've promoted CB products and other affiliate products for a long time using blogger blogs. But, I almost lost a few...why? because I had too many product links to the same site. I got a warning, and quickly removed all but one link - no problem since.

    Also, I think there's a role to play for Blogger blogs as a temporary testing site before buying a domain and setting up the whole site etc.
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