Saturday, September 4, 2010

How To Make Money With Clickbank Affiliate Program

Affiliate marketing is become the best ways to generate a strong revenue stream. One of the better ways to make money through Affiliate programs is through niche sites. An affiliate niche site looks like a normal content site but it’s really an strong landing page built to get people to buying various affiliate products.

In general, publisher earn a commission from each product sold. However, the main rule is the following: The higher the commission is, the less traffic you will need to meet your revenue goals.

While isn’t the first time I have talked about these different forms of revenues, this time I decided to talk more about an affiliate networks that I’m using enough to make additional income online with affiliate programs, called “ClickBank“.

clickbank guide
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In this full guide I will show you every single aspect on how does to start with ClickBank, how does to choose the right affiliate programs and how you could promote it, as well.

Inside ClickBank guide:

* What Is ClickBank?
* How Does To Start With ClickBank.
* How Does To Choose Product Into ClickBank Marketplace.
* How Does To Promote Your Affiliate Product: What Is The Bum Marketing Strategy?

What Is ClickBank?

ClickBank is the Internet’s leading retailer of digital products. Whether you’re thinking to starting and running your own business online by promoting affiliate products, then ClickBank is the right choice for you. I can attest it because I use it from several years, and I can say that is one of my better source of income.

Anyone can join to ClickBank as an affiliates – it’s free. If you search through the ClickBank marketplace you can find hundred of affiliate products that you can promote. Once choosed the affiliate product you think is right for you, you will get a piece of code which you can use to drive customers into the product page.

Watch this video where Lisa of blog.2createawebsite.com make a brief introduction to the ClickBank affiliate program.

How Does To Start With ClickBank

First and foremost you need to create an Clickbank account. All you need to do is to fill the following registration form.

Once registered be sure to setting up your payment method. Unfortunatly, ClickBank do not accept Paypal payment method. However, you can receive your payment through two other methods: Via check or direct deposit. Each payment is sent every 2 weeks. You need to have received 3 pay checks before you can opt for direct deposit and receive payment every week. Remember, that a $2.50 fee is deduced from each check issued.
How Does To Choose Product Into ClickBank Marketplace

It’s time to choose your affiliate products. If you are newbie or veteran, no matter, you need to look for product with a good commission for each sales generated. The Marketplace only shows you a static listing of products by category, ranked by their sales popularity.

clickbank marketplace

There are different options that allows you to search your affiliate products. Once typed the keywords you get a list of affiliate products related to that key term. Also, you can choose to search based the gravity, popularity, earned/sales, and so on.

Gravity only counts the first sale each affiliate makes, so it isn’t necessarily a solid indication on the overall profitability of promoting the product. However, if it has a super high gravity it’s probably because people are having good success with it.

Usually, I prefer to integrate the clickBank search engine with another site www.cb-analytics.com that show me more data such as:

* Commission%
* Unique visitors / month
* Google pagerank
* Gravity
* Avg. week grav
* Google Organic
* Google Organic (by SEMRush)(For this example I check the term peel ads)
* Google AdWords (by SEMRush)

Once choosed your product, click on Create HopLink button. The link opens a popup window where appear this mesage:

You can earn 60%(this percentage change based the product) for each paying customer you refer to this product. For details please enter your account nickname and tracking ID (if you have one):

Once enter your nickname you will get your affiliate code to add to your post. That it!

Check up the link to see if works correctly, and if send back at the sales page. Once you go in the order page, be sure that your nickname appears in the [affiliate =] line at the botton of the order page.

Remember that an incorrectly format could make you lose your commission. ClickBank can connect to a specific product page with multiple product, to the order form(this is a good choice for those want to bypass the product page).

To know the real earns you will get, here, an easy to use ClickBankcalculator that show you the real affiliate commission paid.
How Does To Promote Your Affiliate Product: What Is The Bum Marketing Strategy?

In my view, Bum Marketing is the better strategy for promote affiliate programs for free. It use article marketing to earn commissions with affiliate programs, get sales leads online, selling their own products or services, and so on.

In brief, here’s how it works:

1. You write articles about low competition niches.
2. Add your article to popular article directory.
3. Once the pages of your website are indexed by search engines, you wait if you make money by selling your own affiliate products.

First and foremost create three or more Squidoo lenses. Now, you can write 8-10 articles through that includes an anchor text to each lense and submit them to the article directory such as www.ezinearticles.com, the grand daddy of them all, but also www.goarticles.com, it takes up to 10 hours for your article to go live, www.articledashboard.com, and www.amazines.com.

Then, take these articles and rewrite each one 6 times. Making this operation take a lot of time and effort. To resolve this problem you can use a cool service called Unique Article Wizard that allows me to turn my original article into hundreds or even thousands of versions that are unique enough to fool Google’s algorithm. The service goes for $67 a month, it’s enough high, but in my view it worth.