How I Still Rake It In With Clickbank
by Joseph Plazo
Heard of Clickbank? For the uninitiated, Clickbank is one of
the world’s largest affiliate system. It serves two markets. Publishers
selling software upload software, ebooks and other intangibles to Clickbank’s
system
to find
buyers. Website owners, market these products as affiliates and earn up
to 75% in commissions. The site has paid out an astounding $1 Billion US ollars
to date. That’s the GDP of medium sized country!
From 2001- to 2008, the company enjoyed stellar growth.
Millionaires have built a fortune with clickbank. Heard of the RichJerk? He’s
one of the mavericks who created a massive clickbank affiliate system selling
his ebook RichJerk… which simply teaches people how to market product
using affiliate systems! Then there are the niche authors specializing in nlp,
SEO, seduction, etc. There’s a great demand for esoteric knowledge.
Clickbank helped them sell and made a lot of rich folks.
Today, Clickbank has failed the expectations of many. From
blog rumblings, you’ll discover that sales have slumped across the board with
affiliates barely scraping in a paycheck. Some attribute it to recession. Some
claim that affiliate marketing simply lost its luster. I agree. But there’s
still a hardcore way to make money of this marketing monster.
- Skip the One Page Affiliate Website Method.
The average affiliate marketer cashed in on clickbank creating a clone of
the original product’s site. He used the same spiel and plugged in his
affiliate link at the bottom to reap in the commissions. This worked well in
the past when it was easy to get indexed fast and achieve Pagerank early.
It’s not the case today. Google
is strict in its listings and rarely will a new affiliate marketer find his
new webpage
listed. It could take months or years to show in the index. Sometimes
these sites never appear on the index because of duplicate content filters.
Either way, the e-product may already have disappeared, denying the
affiliate a sale!
- Quit The Adwords Blitzes. Another popular
method was to spend on adwords to promote an affiliate link or to point to
one of the new, unranked affiliate websites. Know something? This has to be
one of the lamest methods ever used. Try promoting forex ebooks on adwords
with this technique. It will cost you almost $10 o $20 per click (the niche
is very costly) and in the rare chance that the purchases closes the sale,
you make a measly $30 per sale. Or less. Adwords and advertising networks
like overture is not cost effective for clickbank affiliate marketing
systems. Variable cost of operations
simply goes through the roof!
- Instead, Set up Honest To Goodness Review Networks.
I maintain a few sites that give real reviews. These blogs and fora
don’t use the exact marketing spiel deployed by the original product
owner. Instead, writers look in depth into the product (by borrowing from
those who purchased) and whip up solid insider looks. Pros and cons are
listed, as well as hidden costs. There’s a balance of view. Some products
are trashed. Some are rated highly. At the end of every review, we plug
in the hoplink. What happens? The reader feels that the
information is valuable. He’s not bamboozled into buying something on the
basis of something contrived. Even better, google loves it for unique
content.
- Get the Review Network Spidered Well. I
want Google to update data on the blogs so that new reviews
appear almost overnight. There’s no point if users search for an eproduct
review and don’t see it on my site till months later. My trick is simple.
I get backlinks from gargantuan pageranked sites like W3C and .edu. This
method gets google spiders crawling like … well… spiders… daily.
- Look at the %refd Attribute of the Product. Don’t
just sell any clickbank product. Select the most saleable. When you browse
the clickbank marketplace, take note of the %refd attribute. This tells what
percentage of the product
sales came from affiliates and what came from the company.
100% means that ALL it’s sales came from Affiliates. That means it lends
itself well to affiliate marketing!
- Look at the grav Attribute – Gravity is
key! This pertains to the number of affiliates who earned a commission
selling the product. It is not an exact number. It is a weighted sum, deeply
emphasizing the sales performance of the preceeding 16 weeks. Higher grav
means solid performer.
Have your clickbank sales slowed? Don’t despair. Take a step
back and evaluate your strategy. Then try my methodology. It could kickstart
your thousand dollar paychecks!
About the Author:
Joseph Plazo is a recognized persuasion expert ... but can't persuade his
business partners and clients to leave him alone. He is the author, co-author or
creator of several best-selling persuasion, attraction and influence resources.
You simply can't be persuaded to miss out on his massive library of free Mind
Power downloads.
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