What's a good way to promote Clickbank products if you're new?

you could try video marketing -- ie. YouTube and Vimeo.

It's really not that hard to review a product. Essentially you just need to record yourself or a presentation and give a review of the product. There is free software out there but Camtasia (PC) and Screenflow (Mac) are not that expensive.

It's quick...you can literally have something done and uploaded the same day.

Clickbank, Amazon even WSO's...you can promote anything.

Hopefully that gives you another option...try it out.

Yes search for video marketing + affiliate marketing and you should get good ideas on how to promote affiliate products ... also search for matt carter he had a video affiliate course which was quite good and valuable if you want an course to follow.

1) You could get a ton of hits to your raw affiliate link

2) You could build an email list and market to your email subscribers

3) You could build a review page for the product you want to sell

4) You could build a pre-sell page specifically designed to sell your Clickbank product

The only success I've had with Clickbank was that I'd written several article and was looking to monetize them. I found clickbank products related to the article and added several links (one product each). From there visitors who were truly interested in going further with the business idea, bought the product. The point is that I wrote the content without attempting to sell Clickbank products.

To make the most with affiliate marketing, you should create a blog. Your blog should consist of both product reviews and articles related to stuff in your niche. In addition, you should build a list of targeted buyers as well. The cool thing about having a blog is that not only is it something you can do part-time around your own schedule, but a number of people who visit your blog will sign up to your list without you having to do much of anything.

Forums are great for learning about the people and products within your niche, and once you have your blog set up, they are a good and easy way to get targeted traffic to your site. Just make sure you use forums that are relevant to your blog, that you add value to the conversations within the forum, and that you put a link to your blog in the forum signature.

Good luck,
Joey

One option . . . setup a page on a free content site (such as WordPress, Blogger, squidoo, etc.) which pre-sells a CB product, then get on YahooAnswers, Webanswers and similar (like forums, etc.) and create really GOOD answers to questions relevant to your product(s).

I tend to write answers including my URL, about half the time, else those sites might not like you. Don't get too off-topic with your answers, because even if you have 20 best answers, YahooAnswers will still delete all your answers if you can complained-about even 3 times (as someone I know found out by experience), and it's in your interest to keep your answers online as long as possible. WebAnswers will even pay you (AdSense) to answer questions there, so you get 2 income streams from doing the same work!

Of course, it's probably a good idea to research the topic, before choosing a product and putting up your own product-page, as there are some topics which no-one is asking questions about, although you can get around this by having more than one account, in different names, asking questions fom one account, and answering them from the other (although probably a bad idea to make it too obvious, so don't write 10 Q's on one account, and answer all those 10 Q's from the other account, make it a bit less obvious, and you should be OK).

Hope that helps!

Chris
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It's one way of trying to get some targeted traffic. I've certainly had opt-ins and made sales that way. But, as you say, not always easy.

This is my way of getting floods of targeted traffic, if it helps/interest you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

I hope that this was intended as an ironic/sarcastic comment, but I'm afraid it may not have been, at all. Especially at the moment, it's among the most misguided and least effective advice ever offered in this forum, for several reasons, of which these are perhaps the three most important ones ...

(i) At the moment, as can be seen from all the threads like this one, huge numbers of Warriors have been getting their sites heavily penalised or even in some cases de-indexed by Google precisely for having used such automated link-building methods as this (or for having "bought backlinks" in places like Fiverr, where their supplier has used automated methods). In may cases, as reported here in so many recent threads, Google has even told them openly, by email, that this is why their sites have been so penalized for SEO. Remvoving from the front few pages of the SERP's the sites of people who have done this sort of backlink building was the specific purpose of Google's "Penguin update".

(ii) Google traffic is, in any case, the worst sort of traffic you can have, for promoting ClickBank products. All my testing, over nearly 4 years, in each of 8 entirely unrelated niches, has consistently shown that SEO traffic opts in least and - having opted in - buys least.

(iii) "SEO methods" are also a very unreliable, precarious and insecure way to build an affiliate marketing business. As so many Warriors have found out over the last year or two (some of them to their very great cost!) a business that depends on Google for its primary traffic can never be more than one algorithm change away from a potential accident, or even a potential disaster. In other words, if you set up your business in order to attract Google traffic, the long-term security of your business will always be outside your own control. Many people do exactly that, though - and this is a big part of why the overall success rate with promoting ClickBank products is very much on the low side.

The advice you're giving/repeating here, Faisal, in short, is exactly what's responsible for so many people failing.

In-post affiliate links work best - or at least, that's what has been converting for me the most.

Twitter traffic has been high on CTRs, but very very low on conversions. I agree on getting away from the blasting techniques. Stick to good informative content. Beyond traffic, the idea is to intrigue the visitor enough to click on your link to go to the affiliate sales page.

Panda/Penguin are super-focused on user experience. So if you do have a couple of hours after work, spend them on creating superb content that, like honey, captures your visitors!

For the others... Thanks guys for the tips.. I really appreciate it. Keep it coming so I have ideas how to start. I really really love this forum!

haha Thanks TheRealDudeMan - appreciate it!

Some Warriors above have already given you some great answers, but just to simplify, I figured I would tell you what I would do if I were starting over on a limited budget.

1. Create a blog centered around your niche topic, and post quality content to your blog at least a few times each week. Focus on building this site beyond the traditional 8-10 page "niche site" and make it a true authority website with 100+ posts/pages.

2. Syndicate content around the web, with each piece linking back to a relevant post on your blog. You can do this with videos, articles, podcasts, Slideshare presentations, etc. The point is to get a lot of content out there promoting your website/product.

3. Get a subscription to Aweber, and focus on building an email list if subscribers. Compared to the internet marketing/make money online space, it is amazing how just a small list can make you some nice commissions in other markets.

4. Follow up with your subscribers with a mixture of promotions & free content. Don't sell to your list with every email, but at the same time you have to make money, so sending them a promo for your product every few emails is certainly ok.

instead of me starting a new thread I hope someone can answer this question regarding clickbank.

When you select a product on clickbank and view the owners sales page where it describes in a long downward read what the product and constantly trying to sell it - When I create my own page to promote it is there no way around not linking to the owners actual sales page for the customer to by the product?

I mean its bad enough for the customer to read your pre-selling page then on the long and boring one the owner provides.

There must be a way round this?

Thanks in advance.

I suggest you to start blogging. You can write small stories about the products you are promoting and add your affiliate link inside the post. At the same time you can create videos too, upload them on Youtube and promote your channel, also add the videos on your blog posts too.

You have to network and build relationships with others. This is the best way. Find out where the inner circle is and get into it

Thanks Alexa, much appreciated for the detailed answer. This is a slight set back for me though lol, I was in the mood to sell the product on my site with good quality content. Now I'm going to have to learn to PRE-SELL products.

Good advice and somthinge I'm going to have to ask more questions on and learn more about.

Thanks Alexa, much appreciated for the detailed answer. This is a slight set back for me though lol, I was in the mood to sell the product on my site with good quality content. Now I'm going to have to learn to PRE-SELL products.

Good advice and somthing I'm going to have to ask more questions on and learn more about.

I've made some sales from Clickbank -- but only after finding a CB product I like that also matched one of my well established blog. Readers were already coming to me for information related to the CB product, so I have a sidebar ad and a review, and mention it once in a while in a related post. I am sure there are other, faster ways to do it, but this worked for me --

This is how I got my first Clickbank check :

I join some Farmville fanpages and groups on Facebook and made friends with lots of Farmville players. Then, I promoted a Farmville tips / secrets product from Clickbank to them. I also offered a free ebook on weight loss on Craigslist, Backpage, etc. and gave it to people with my Clickbank aff link in it, which promoted another weight loss product on CB.

Good luck !

I think there are really two ways of doing this:

1. The Fast Way:

This revolves around you making and ranking Youtube videos about a particular niche and then ranking them on Google for a certain keyword. You would then put your affiliate link on the bottom of the video.

This is easy because ranking Youtube videos is extremely easy compared to ranking websites and you'll see some results (i.e $$$) quicker.

2. The harder way (more sustainable)

Make your own blog about a niche, get an audience, engage them and fill your site with interesting content on the regular.

You'll have to avoid shady SEO tricks because they short lived and you'll end up plummeting your site.

You can actually piggy back off popular videos that have already been created and download them, using the FREE YouTube video downloader.

Then you can tweak the video slightly at Camtasia and upload several versions but making sure all videos are different in length and have slightly different titles but are still targeted towards your affiliate offer.

Place your affiliate link first at the beginning of your videos description and then makesure you consistently do this process everday until you see massive commissions roll in.

Plan to do around 10 of these videos a day and soon you will begin to see some very nice results indeed.

Hope this helps in anyway and good luck!

Social media right now, quickly produced YouTube videos. Probably the most profitable use of your time right now.

exactly my idea. I asked that question up above and Alexa answered it for me. Now I was looking at competition and seen the website direct the customers straight to the payment page and not the abysmal sales pages.

Thank god for that. It means I can promote the product instead of pre-sell the product.

That way I can make it look professional as hell. Now I'm excited lol.

Do you have a blog or mailing list

video works brilliantly for us - its quick and cheap and you can get results sometimes in just a few hours.

KW research is critical at first though to make sure you hit one out of the park

Thanks folks for the helpful hints. Click Bank is regarded as a safe heaven for newbie to IMers. Starting with Click Bank requires careful selection of product/s from niche/s you truly have good idea or/and interest on. Choosing product/s to promote in line with your passion and researching for adequately converting products in your chosen niche/s, guarantees your success in your venture. So, bear this in mind when starting out. All the best !

I started by creating Facebook pages for the products in the niche. Fill it up with valuable info and put your affiliate links on it.

Hey spm...

Forums, blog commenting, social media comments etc are a great way to 'test' the water with affiliate offers HOWEVER you must offer them real value... something that meets their need before trying to pitch a product.

Most people only buy from people they trust! By offering them something of REAL VALUE that meets their need...for free, you create trust.

That's why a squeeze page/ list building free offer is so powerful... it allows you to build a relationship, then promote products.

I teach people how to create a profitable web business... using a squeeze page, building a list, then promoting related products to the list.

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Hope this helps.

Jimmy

An other good way to promote clickbank products is to provide a honest review of the products which meant to try some of them.

First off I would like to say that you need to not just focus on traffic but instead targeted traffic. With this being said:

Use the search function and do a search for mowg. Short for "mass optimized webpage generation". Talk about capturing keywords short and long as well as localized or nationalized, you can do it all with this software. Once you do this and Google starts indexed and then just watch the targeted traffic flow. This works for CB products, affiliate products, lead generation, site rentals or just plain getting targeted traffic to your site.

I am not a affiliate for this but just see it as a viable way for a newbie to get it right the first time as there is nothing worse than getting it wrong and its like being stuck in mud and you get no where.

The developer offers a 10 day free trial and you can keep as many optimized pages as you can generate and use them how ever you would like. Then you can either rent it or buy a license. For $100 month you cant go wrong.

Hope this helps.

I'd do an squeeze page and PPC to that squeeze page. That should be your first and also ultimate strategy

I promoted Clickbank with adwords the first time until google decided to disapprove all my campaigns..so I moved to Bidvertiser than to Microsoft adCenter..I bought some soloads ..

Now I have decent lists in many niches .. I only use email marketing to promote CB

In my opinion, the best way to sell your products quickly is to review a product, you can write a review on your blog and drive traffic to it, or else it is much easier to do a video. Videos are quicker to rank and easier to make. I have tried both the methods in past.

It takes time to build a full fledged site and getting it ranked, only to find that you lost all your rankings in the next update. But its not the case with YouTube videos, plus I think they are converting better for me than my sites. Takes less time to create, easier to rank and get results faster. Just my thoughts

Video Video Video....oh yeah did I say Video It is so easy to get videos to rank for hot money grabbing keywords.

My best tips:

1) Video Marketing (youtube and other most uses video sharing sites)

2) Forum Marketing (your link in signature)

You could do video reviews for the products and rank the video in google.

You can create a blog and promote your offers on the blog.

If it's a social and passionate niche I would create a Facebook fan page about the niche, build up a fan base and then promote your affiliate offers on your wall and tabs.

You can promote your offers through Pinterest. For this it's best that you have a female related audience. I would also set up a website for your promotions as well because your not allowed to direct link to affiliate offers on Pinterest anymore.

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