A Guide for ClickBank Affiliates!

By Jason Smith  |   Submitted On April 27, 2016

  

Many choose ClickBank for their affiliate marketing efforts. Do you know ClickBank enjoys about 3,000 or more digital sales every single day and boasts more than six million users who develop and sell digital products on there? But, the best part - you don't need to necessarily create a product to be part of ClickBank! Yes, you can either list your product or promote products listed by others and earn commission. And the commissions are between 5 - 75%.

So, how do you promote products on ClickBank?

A good idea is to have a website and promote affiliate offers for ClickBank products. You could promote the offers with good content. I prefer using WordPress because it is easy to set up, run and also gets listed in search engine results better. Articles are the best way to grab more traffic and attention, so come up with interesting and winning content to promote products.

Now that you know you need a site and good content, what's all that without traffic? Online traffic is what makes you money - the more the visitors, the more possibility for conversions or sales. For getting targeted visitors, you need to identify the right keywords to create content around them to drive traffic. Many recommend long tail keywords, which are search phrases and they garner more targeted hits and guarantee better conversion.

The key is to keep the site updated, free from errors and up and running always. Tracking the progress, number of visitors, responding to comments and whatnot, is all very important. You can offer free videos, tutorials, or documents for regular visitors. Most of us love freebies - so as long as they're useful and relevant, your visitors are going to stay loyal. Give them what you like and they like, it is a win-win situation! There's nothing wrong in trial and error - no one gets it right the first time.

The best part about being a ClickBank affiliate is that you don't need anything. Anything and everything you ever need as an affiliate; ClickBank offers - account, affiliate id, etc. You don't even need a website if you don't want one, since there are ways to work around it.

This is how the entire process works:

You create an account in ClickBank and you get a nickname, which will also be your affiliate id. This is needed for tracking your earnings. The account creation is free. Choose one that you wouldn't mind flaunting, as it reflects you.

Now, search the marketplace for products and pick the ones you want to promote. You could pick them based on type, product or keyword.

Now, use the "create hoplink" option to go to your affiliate link. Here, you will see the products or vendors you have chosen to promote and the commission you can get.

Now, enter your nickname in the "ClickBank Nickname" field and wait for the link to appear. This is the link you will be using to promote the product(s) you just chose.

Once someone decides to buy the product, ClickBank handles the rest and your commission is automatically sent to you, every two weeks. You can either get it as a check or bank deposit.

Ready to get started?

Steps for Success

To be successful with Affiliate Marketing, here are a few key steps to follow. The best part - it is affordable and works effectively. It is a good idea to follow the order for best results, instead of skipping a few steps for quick results and getting none or falling short.

Picking your Niche: This is a very important step that should be done with care and caution. Never rush this, as it is your base and will decide whether or not you will succeed! Pick your passion and expertise, for best results. More on this in our future posts!

Developing Your Online Real Estate/Website: Now, the second step is building your online property - your website. You should get this right for drawing traffic and getting conversions. This again, we will go over more in detail in our future posts.

Promote: Now that your site is ready, it is time to promote it and garner traffic. Do you know how to get in traffic? No worries, we will be explaining more about this later.

Now is the time to pick your products. A niche is different from products, which you would have known by now. You could pick one or more products and promote them, though make sure you go through every other step with adequate time for each.

Last but not the least - promote your products!

Dos and Don'ts of Affiliate Marketing

When you are starting off, it could be confusing or there could be an information overload with you trying out or hearing different stuff. So, let's skim through a few basic dos and don'ts, shall we?

Dos

• Pick products that are good and what you would personally choose to buy. You can market what you believe in and know better, than something you aren't sure about. That's true, isn't it? You don't have to buy, though owning it will help you market it better.


• Most firms offer tutorials and ideas to help their affiliates fare better. They even give suggestions on keywords and some firms also offer a relationship manager who can be of assistance.


• Always make sure your hoplinks are working.


• Try new techniques and always assess if they work, before fully investing your time on them.


• Be willing to make changes and amendments as necessary.

Now let's look at a few Don'ts

• Never resort to spamming for promotions.


• Never resort to advertising campaigns with a negative slant - Is this "Product" a Hoax?


• Never promise gifts or special offers for your visitors if they go through your hoplink, because ClickBank doesn't like it! Play by their rules.


• Don't expect quick money. You will do better putting in your time and energy for lasting results, than quick results that vanish and earn you a negative hit with Google!


• Don't resort to black or grey hat marketing methods.

I hope this quick guide gives you a glimpse of what ClickBank Marketing is all about and helps you get started, or decide if it is right for you. Stay tuned for detailed posts on each step, to guide you through to your ClickBank Success!

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8 Great Ways to Generate Targeted Traffic To Your Web Sites

By Nick James  |   Submitted On March 29, 2016

  

Traffic is like oxygen to your web site. It is what keeps your site alive and profitable. Without traffic, your web site is 'dead' and you cannot make any money, period. For that reason one of the top questions I always get asked is "How Do I Get Traffic To My Website?" It really doesn't have to be a mystery to figure out how to get traffic to your site. Also, it's best to stick with a select handful of ways that are proven effective.

Are there other ways? Absolutely, but it's still best to use only the methods that are proven to work well and only take a small amount of both time and money to implement.

Here are eight excellent traffic-generating methods:

1. Search Engine Listings

The best of traffic there is. Free! Concentrate on making Google-friendly pages. Other search engines are important also, but Google should be at the top of the list for anyone.

2. Affiliate Program

Happily pay many affiliates every month. They work hard for you, and you should have no problem sharing the profits. Building a strong affiliate program is a critical element to really increase your profits.

3. Opt-in Mailing Lists

By capturing as many email addresses as possible with your newsletters, it can generate some very nice, targeted traffic.

4. Pay-per-click Search Engines

Paying for targeted traffic is worth it because you know exactly how much per click is profitable for you. Here are some great choices: Google AdWords, Overture, Kanoodle, Findwhat, and 7search.

5. Forum postings

It's a good idea to frequent several forums and to make sure that you include a "resource box" or "signature text" with a link back to your sites. Don't post anything unless it is meant to provide someone with helpful information.

6. Write Ezine Articles

Ezine editors gladly publish quality articles, and in return you get targeted traffic to your site. Its a win/win situation.

7. Ezine Ads

The key to paying for ezine ads is tracking your results. If you find out the ads are worth your money, then you keep it up.

8. Trading Links

If done with the right site, you can get some traffic to your site. You may not necessarily get a flood of it, but every bit counts.

Many site owners spread themselves thin by traffic every new traffic tactic that comes available. By using as many of these basic techniques as possible, your site can thrive with the traffic that is coming to it.

Discover how to engage and excite new customers into taking action and spending money with you by using these simple free marketing tips from Nick James, The Internet Business Coach http://Nick-James.com

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How I Got Affiliates to Promote My Product

By Sean Mize  |   Submitted On March 02, 2016

  

I could not build momentum. I was doing what I teach folks to do: get five sales on your first product, then you do another one next week and sell ten. You do another the next week and you sell fifteen, and that's a lot like how I started. In fact, that's how I started. But it wasn't working to try and break into this market.

Affiliates weren't promoting for me, and I had somebody tell me that affiliates don't promote until you have fifty or a hundred sales. So what am I going to do to get over this?

I needed a strategy to recruit affiliates in a big marketplace like the Warrior Forum, ClickBank, JVZoo, etc. I was using the Warrior Forum...

The light bulb went off. What about solo ads? Instead of sending my solo ads to an opt-in form, or instead of sending them to some "Thank-You" page, I can immediately get the subscriber if I send them to the WSO (Warrior Special Offer) page, and then I would just send them to whatever my current WSO was, and get fifteen, or twenty, or thirty sales, I found that was paying for my solo ads prices, not completely, but it was helping pay for it. Then with my back end it was paying for it.

This allows me to monetize my solo ad leads, and so I was just buying solo ads left and right, sending them to a WSO (it didn't even have to be my current one - it might be the top performing one). Send it to a WSO, get as many buyers as possible, put them into my twenty-one day conversion campaign, where people were spending like $18 - $20 within twenty days in the conversion campaign, by enrolling in coaching, prepaying some things, just various things that were in the integrated conversion campaign that I put together. It was really a phenomenal thing.

Now you're thinking "Why are you telling me all of this?" I want you to see the WHY behind it. Because, one of the things that happens in your business, you may find, is that you hit obstacles, and you just don't know what to do.

I hit an obstacle and solo ads weren't performing as well, so I decided I'd stop those. Then I saw the opportunity on the Warrior Forum and I put them together like I described above. Then I ran into another obstacle!

Solo ad providers stopped being willing to sell me ads that just went to the WSO forum because they weren't getting as many clicks. Then, if they don't get as many clicks, they don't make as much money. So, the bottom line was I had a harder and harder time finding ways to do that, but! but! by now, I had hundreds of WSO buyers, that I had gotten through these solo ads, now if I launched a WSO, I could send it out, send it only the buyers that had bought from me before, that way I would keep my conversion rate really high. And then people would buy, and I'd get my fifty, or a hundred sales, and then affiliates started noticing, and started promoting for me.

And, what would happen was most of the time you would get like ten affiliates, they'd each do like five sales, and honestly, it's pretty discouraging. Pretty discouraging, I remember how discouraging it was.

How am I ever going to scale? People are either sending out a test e-mail, or all these people had really small e-mail lists, and, I think there's a mix of both. But, then, the big break happened.

Some of those affiliates, when they bought my product, they would study it themselves, and then they realized that I had really good training, and then when they promoted it to their list, they would tell the people that it was really good training, they would want to promote for me, they would start promoting for me on the first day instead of waiting until there were fifty or a hundred sales. Why? Not because of anything special at the Warrior Forum, not because of any hot copy, I don't write hot copy, I write copy that gets the job done.

But people were choosing to promote for me because they liked me!

Because I offered phenomenal training. And I think that that's something that motivated me, and said this is something that is very, very, very interesting. And then what happened was you know a few affiliates that really could pull a hundred or two-hundred sales, they started promoting for me. And then they would even send me e-mails that would say, "hey, when you're going to launch something, let me know I'd like to promote for you." Sight unseen, why? Because of the quality of the product, and so what do I leave you with when I say this. Your product's got to be great. It's got to have high quality.

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6 Ideas to Promote Your Website for Free

By George Matthews  |   Submitted On March 02, 2016

  

If you already have a website up and running but you're lacking targeted visitors, check out 6 free ways to promote your website:

* Using Videos

Videos are extremely powerful if done right. Choose a topic you're comfortable to talk about and create a series of videos. You can place these videos on our blog but make sure you also upload them to YouTube and other video websites. You can also choose to have just a text post on your website and the video on the video websites.

Just be creative. There are many types of videos out there. You can simply show your screen, you can record yourself, whatever you want.

Make your videos interesting and captivating.

* Podcasting

Podcasts are becoming more popular every day. They allow you to connect directly to your audience and there are many people who prefer podcasts to read a post or watch a video. Just give it a try.

* Using Forums

Start up by creating a spreadsheet of all the forums in your niche. Open an account with each one of them and create a signature with a link or two pointing to your website. Then, search for threads where you are able to give a good insight. The more answers you give, the better. This will make you not only have more links pointing to your website (within your signature) as it will also allow you to become an authority in your niche since other people on the forums will start to recognize you.

* Articles

Although they're not so commonly used nowadays, it's always good to have links pointing to your website. And with articles sites, you can have this through the "Resource Box" at the end of the article.

* Commenting on other Blogs

There are many blogs that still have their comments open. Just make a list of the best blogs in your niche, and check the ones that allow you to have a link to your website. Then, once a day, go through all those blogs you found and see if you can leave a relevant comment. Make sure not to spam or saying anything redundant. Your credibility is on the line here.

* Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is pretty common nowadays and there are many blogs accepting guest posts. Again, you need to make a list of the most relevant blogs that accept guest posts and see their guidelines carefully. Then, just follow them and try to be accepted. Make sure the blogs you choose allow you to have at least one link pointing to your website.

Each one of these methods works on its own; but it's far better to use them all to see more results, sooner. Consistency is the key and with time, you'll see a steady growth in your new visitors and visitors coming back to your website.

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